20/06/2026
The Department of English-Language Literatures and Cultures and the Institute of Literary Studies at UWM are pleased to invite you to an international interdisciplinary conference on
H.G. Wells and Modernity: Texts, Contexts, (Re)visions, 22nd–24th Oct. 2026, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Celebrating H.G. Wells’s 160th/80th anniversaries of birth and death (1866–1946), this conference invites scholars from across literary studies, linguistics, film studies, political theory, sociology, history, philosophy, and other disciplines to examine modernity’s (con)texts through Wells, his contemporaries, and his followers. We aim to consider how their visions reshape understandings of the evolution and devolution of the human, humanity, and society.
Proposals for a twenty-minute paper (about 200 words) and a bio note (100 words) should be sent to [email protected] by 10th September 2026.
[…] the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. […] But it is out of our race and lineage that minds will spring, that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves, and that will reach forward fearlessly to comprehend this future that defeats our eyes.
[H.G. Wells, “The Discovery of the Future” 1902]