Peter Filkins, Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature, delivered his paper "H.G. Adler: The Displaced Modernist" at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University College London, in May. Filkins, whose authorized biography of H.G. Adler will be published by Oxford University, joined fourteen other scholars from London, Oxford, Paris, Germany, and the U.S. for the two-day conference entitled "A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H.G. Adler" about the life and work of Adler.