BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4095@iwanttag.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260722T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260722T170000 DTSTAMP:20260716T073808Z URL:https://www.iwanttag.com/events/reframing-poetics-language-structure-f orm SUMMARY:Reframing Poetics: Language\, Structure\, Form DESCRIPTION:A one day symposium at UCL'\;s IAS. Keynotes from Sophie Se ita (Goldsmiths\, University of London) and Craig Dworkin (University of Utah)‘Forms are’\, as Caroline Levine notes\, ‘at work everywhere’ . From early modern pattern poetry to the clarified forms of Imagist verse and the minimal grids of the post-war concretists\, poetry has always sug gested a specific\, material attunement to language as a structural agent. To see poetic form itself not just as artifice\, however\, but as an orga nisational schema that is meaningful in its own right suggests new and exc iting avenues of inquiry. Like Leon Battista Alberti’s veil or Albrecht Dürer’s drawing device\, the concept of ‘the frame’ and of form as a mediating interface has been widely employed in material text studies to draw attention to language’s false claim to transparency. As Craig Dwor kin has recently proposed\, ‘We might learn to look at the opaque materi ality of language in the way one might look at rather than through the pan e of a window\, registering the artifice of its framing rather than focuss ing on the scene beyond’.In an era of heightened and extreme digital con nectivity\, at a moment when our systems and structures—whether politica l\, social\, or economic—seem particularly precarious\, it feels right t o focus our attention towards the frameworks that make up our world\, both critical and material. In line with Dworkin’s intention to look at rath er than through form\, this one-day symposium seeks to reorient our gaze t owards the frameworks which not only make meaning possible but carry their own significance.We therefore invite 15-20 minute critical\, practice-led poetic or interdisciplinary proposals which take form\, frameworks\, matr ices\, and organisational structures broadly as their focus or point of de parture\, including (but not confined to):Visual poetics from classical an tiquity to the contemporary (as varied as Optatian to e. e. cummings\, and George Herbert to Irma Blank)Frameworks broadly conceived (both material and social\, political\, ideological etc.)Physical and metaphorical mediat ive boundaries (frames\, windows\, mirrors\, planes etc.)Poetry and archit ecture\, or the architecture of poetrySpatial and topological relations (s uch as gridding\, mapping\, pinpointing\, locating etc.)Digital poetics an d computational structuresConstraint-based poetics (Oulipo\, conceptual po etry\, etc.)Histories of the bookFacture and processes of formation\, comp ositional techniques and tools\, and material aids or supports in poetic c onstruction (including typewriters\, handwriting\, collage etc.)Space and structure in poetics across physical forms and critical vocabulariesPlease send 250-word abstracts along with a short bio to Lola Gabellini-Fava at lola.gabellini.25@ucl.ac.uk and India Oswin at ibo21@cam.ac.uk by 15 May 2 026.With keynote papers from Sophie Seita (Goldsmiths\, University of Lond on) and Craig Dworkin (University of Utah).Sophie Seita is an artist and r esearcher who works with an expanded understanding of language as a sensuo us\, sonic\, and embodied material moulded into or experienced as live per formances\, performative objects\, publications\, sound pieces\, drawings- as-scores\, lecture performances\, talking textiles\, garment sculptures a s artist books or potential sets\, creative audio descriptions\, and somat ic workshops. Committed to ambivalence\, difficulty\, play\, to what can ’t be communicated directly\, but what makes the senses fizz and shimmer \, Seita is Director of Critical Studies and Deputy Director of Research i n the School of Art at Goldsmiths\, and recently held residencies with Aka demie der Künste (Berlin)\, Studio Voltaire (London)\, and Khata Maystern ya (Ukraine).Craig Dworkin is the author of five scholarly monographs\, in cluding\, most recently\, The Sound of Thinking: A Listener's Companion to Conceptual Music (U. Chicago Press\, 2026). He teaches literary history a nd theory at the University of Utah and co-edits the on-line archive Eclip se .Attendance is free and open to the public. You do not need to submit a n abstract or present in order to attend — audience members are very wel come.UCL Special Collections will also be bringing a small display of visu al and concrete poetry publications from the Small Press Collections. Thes e are globally important collections of independently published and distri buted literary little magazines\, experimental art and poetry in a variety of print formats\, countercultural publications\, and supporting bibliogr aphic and archival material. Established in 1965 in response to a burgeoni ng international culture of self-publishing\, it was one of the first inst itutional collections of small press publications. This display will inclu de a selection of visual performance scores and concrete poetry from the U K\, Europe\, and South America.This event is generously supported by the U CL Department of English Language and Literature. If you are a low-income applicant (including graduate students and researchers on casual or non-fu ll-time contracts) travelling from outside of London and wish to apply for travel subsidy\, please indicate so on your application\, along with the estimated cost. Travel subsidy will be allocated on a first-come\, first-s erve basis. 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