Literary London 2010

Representations of London in Literature: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London

Organised by the University of Northampton, Kingston University, London, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London

7-9th July 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Michael Slater (Birkbeck, University of London)

Professor Susan Alice Fischer (Medgar Evers College, City University of New York)

Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, University of London)

Proposals by 31st March 2010

This seminar seeks to identify how and why contemporary literature uses visual works of art (murals, montages, sculpture, paintings, photography, etc) as a means of interpretation. How does the translation of a visual piece into textual form affect both the verbal and the visual expressions? With a particular interest in inter-arts encounters that are cross-cultural in nature, we ask: How does the textualisation of art affect its reception? Does using art in crosscultural works add to or diminish its value as a cultural representation? Does textualization permit the representation of more than one culture? Does reinterpretation involve the loss of an essence, or a change? What is the role of the reader?

This seminar seeks to explore connections and tensions between discourses of the body and discourses of diaspora, migration, exile, and transnationality. How do processes of migration challenge or expand our understandings of corporeality? How do the conditions of corporeality challenge or expand our understandings of migration? How is the body shaped or defined by experiences of border-crossing? How is the nation or community shaped or defined by the bodies that enter or leave it, bidden and unbidden? How do migration and diaspora intersect with gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability? All temporal and geographical foci welcome.

The Columbia French Graduate Student Association is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of its journal of graduate work, Épitextes, on the subject of:

"Circulation": Networks, Knowledge and the Literary

Call for Papers: South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Salt Lake City (February 25-27, 2010)

Disability Studies and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

The Marianne Moore Society will present two panels at this year's ALA, as described below. Please send 500 word abstracts no later than January 15 to Heather White (hwhite@bama.ua.edu) and Luke Carson (lcarson@uvic.ca).

Directions in Marianne Moore Criticism

We welcome papers addressing the past and present states of Moore criticism, as well as those that forecast, devise, or advocate for its most fruitful future developments.

Open Topic

Proposals welcome on any aspect of Moore's life and work.