Scholars working on material cultures in the humanities are increasingly faced with the methodological challenge of conducting research and devising corresponding curatorial projects on highly ephemeral objects and events, often requiring extensive reconstruction.

The committee for the Modernist Methodologies network welcomes applications for membership of a new interdisciplinary network focusing on the wider material culture of modernism(s) and the avant-garde. Bringing together researchers in art history, performance, film, choreography, literature, interior and set design, architecture and musicology, the network will develop critical and practical approaches for the study and display of overlooked material cultures and marginal modernisms from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  

During 2019, the network will facilitate a three-part programme of training events for members, culminating in a collaboration with an arts organisation in Scotland. Events are open to all, unless otherwise stated, and the application process is reserved for workshops with limited capacity.