Jointly organized by

Departments of French and English, Swansea University
French Department, Queen Mary, University of London
French Department, Royal Holloway, University of London

2006 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Dada in Zurich, and the seventieth of the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. ‘Eggs laid by tigers’: dada and beyond is an international conference called with the aim of assessing the legacy of, and prospects for, Dada, its successors, and the relations between them. The conference coincides with the 2005-06 Dada Exhibition showing in New York-Paris-Washington, which reflects a growing interest in the subject. It will focus on verbal and visual manifestations of Dada.  Far from its being a fossil, the organisers see the legacy of Dada as pacifist, internationalist, sceptical, imaginative, resistant to power and artistic relocation, as possessing new relevance in a twenty-first century of globalisation, eco-crisis, terror and hyperpower hegemony.

Keynote speakers:

Henri Béhar (Université Paris 3)
Roger Cardinal (University of Kent)
Mary Ann Caws (City University New York)
Rudolf Kuenzli (University of Iowa)
Bernard Noël (Mauregny and Paris)

Organisers

Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary) e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk

John Goodby (Swansea) j.goodby@swansea.ac.uk

Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) e.robertson@rhul.ac.uk

Andrew Rothwell (Swansea) a.j.rothwell@swansea.ac.uk

The full conference programme is available here.