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The Iberian Modernist Studies Forum began as the Spanish and Italian Modernist Studies Forum (SIMSF), which was founded in 2013 at Penn State. One of SIMSF\u2019s primary objectives was to explore the socio-historical, cultural, and aesthetic transformations that fundamentally shaped Spain and Italy during the modernist period.\u00a0 Through its emphasis on multidisciplinarity and its commitment to scholarly exchange, SIMSF served as a structure that enabled the dissemination of the most recent research in the field. Its graduate seminars, lecture series, symposia, research workshops, salons, and reading groups established an intellectual community that was reflective of the forum\u2019s commitment to cutting edge research and inclusivity.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

While the cultural landscape of Modernist Studies had changed significantly by 2013 when SIMSF was founded, much more was needed to expand its intercultural and transcultural comparative frameworks. With its focus on Spain and Italy, SIMSF aimed to contribute to this larger comparative project through its various activities and scholarly outreach. It also sought to shed light on the fundamental center\/margin framework that in many ways still structures the field of Modernist Studies today and raises the notion that modernism, as a cohesive movement and sensibility, was somehow diluted, inchoate, derivative, and minor in those geographical areas situated beyond the so-called original centers of production. It was clear that the marginalization of Spanish, Italian, and various other modernisms in debates about modernity demanded that the forum interrogate the sociocultural and hegemonic implications of marginality itself. As Geist and Monle\u00f3n aptly put it, the very idea of \u201cmargin\u201d exposes the blind spot that subtends modernist criticism when it comes to\u00a0<\/span>other<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>modernisms. That is to say, the belief that \u201cthe more distant a society is from the nuclei of capitalist development, the less modern\u2014and, therefore, modernist\u2014it must be,\u201d is complicated by the fact that \u201cvanguard innovators were frequently imported from the periphery: Joyce, Tristan Tzara, Apollinaire, Kafka, Picasso, Dal\u00ed, Bu\u00f1uel, to name just a few.\u201d<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, SIMSF evolved into the Iberian Modernist Studies Forum (IMSF), and recalibrated its focus towards the socio-cultural complexities of Iberian modernisms within a global context. It organized a series of collaborative colloquia titled \u201cThe Afterlives of Unamuno and Pessoa,\u201d and \u201cUnamuno and Pessoa in Dialogue,\u201d exploring the various connections and differences between Miguel de Unamuno\u2019s and Fernando Pessoa\u2019s work. More concretely, these colloquia brought together a diverse group of scholars and translators to tackle <\/span>how Unamuno\u2019s and Pessoa\u2019s life and work have been nationalized, and even commodified, in the Iberian sociocultural imaginary within the last few decades.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2023, IMSF found its new home in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University, where it continues the important mission of exploring the intercultural and transcultural comparative frameworks that have shaped modernist culture<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iberian Modernist Studies Forum began as the Spanish and Italian Modernist Studies Forum (SIMSF), which was founded in 2013 at Penn State. One of SIMSF\u2019s primary objectives was to explore the socio-historical, cultural, and aesthetic transformations that fundamentally shaped Spain and Italy during the modernist period.\u00a0 Through its emphasis on multidisciplinarity and its commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21972,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/imsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}