Doctoral Workshop in Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies in English (3/12)

1 April 2026

Dr Patrick Jones, UNIGE

Prof. Simon Swift, UNIGE

Simon Swift, UNIGE

Penny Bradshaw, Cumbria University

The Modern and Contemporary fortnightly workshop (Mod Con) is a well-attended workshop for PhD students and staff from all CUSO universities. The workshop is popular among doctoral students and early career scholars from the CUSO network. The workshop is a valuable space for the exchange of ideas between doctoral students working on modern and contemporary literatures of the English-speaking world. The 2026 programme will include talks, workshops and professionalisation seminars and it will remain an important space for work-in-progress papers from doctoral students.

Landscapes of the Mind

In this session Simon Swift (UNIGE) and Penny Bradshaw (Cumbria University) will speak about their SNSF Agora project 'Landscapes of the Mind' which brings refugees and migrants into areas of natural beauty in Switzerland and Britain to help develop mindfulness and creativity, under the tutelage of the Romantic poets, novelists and political theoreticians who wrote about these locations, and in dialogue with contemporary writers, artists and mindfulness practitioners.

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