The Stephen Crane Society:Calls for Papers Archive

ALA 2008 in San Francisco
22-25 May 2008
Proposal Deadline: 1 January 2008

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American LIterature Association Conference at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco, 22-25 May 2008.

Session I: "The Monster"
Session II: Any aspect of Crane's works of life will be considered.

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Please e-mail abstracts or papers of no more than 10 double-spaced pages by 1 January 2008 to the program chair, Patrick K. Dooley, pdooley@sbu.edu.

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference,

Imperial College/Conway Hall
London, 28-29 September 2007
Submission deadline: June 11, 2007

Proposals for 20-minute papers, or for panels of 2-3 papers, are invited
for this year’s H. G. Wells Society Annual conference. The conference will
be hosted by both Imperial College, London (on the 28 September) and by
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London (on the 29 September). The first day
of the event will include a plenary lecture by the science fiction writer,
Stephen Baxter.

The conference will focus on ‘Wells, Science and Philosophy’. Proposals may
centre on either Wells and science or Wells and philosophy exclusively, or
might examine the intersection of both science and philosophy in the
author’s work. Proposals might focus on, but are not limited to: Wells and
evolutionary biology; Wells and Physics; Wells and Darwin/Huxley; Wells and
Astronomy; Wells and Plato; Wells and Liberalism.

Proposals of 300 words should be submitted via email
attachment, no late than June 11 2007. Please include a brief biographical
note, and send proposals with ‘Wells, Science and Philosophy’ as the
subject, to Dr Steven McLean, at the following address: stevemclean_7@hotmail.com.

From Dr. Philip Tew:

Submission deadline: Sunday 8 th April, 2007

I am contacting you in my capacity as the new joint managing editor of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary & Cultural Studies. Our website is at <http://www.symbiosisonline.org.uk/>

We are organizing our sixth biennial conference at Brunel University in July 2007 in which you may be interested. Additionally, I wondered whether you might be prepared to circulate or advertise this event among members of the Stephen Crane Society or any other relevant contacts. [Please visit the web site for the CFP.-- D. Campbell]

Additionally we are interested in academic submissions for the journal from members of the Stephen Crane Society, faculty members, or postgraduate PhD students, especially if any might happen to be interested currently.

CFP: Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction

The fall 2007 issue of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction will focus on the short stories of Steophen Crane. We are especially seeking articles that are pedagogical, but we also welcome articles on theory or analysis that would be helfpul in teaching Crane's stories. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2007. Please send articles via e-mail attachment to llogsdon@eureka.edu or mail hard copy to the following address:

Loren Logsdon, Editor
Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction
Humanities Division
Eureka College
Eureka, IL

Call for Papers

ALA 2007

The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American LIterature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 24-27, 2007.

1. Stephen Crane's Western Tales

2. Open. Any aspect of Crane's work or life will be considered.

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

Please e-mail abstracts or papers of no more than ten double-spaced pages by 1 January 2007 to the program chair:

Patrick K. Dooley, pdooley@sbu.edu

ALA 2006
The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the 2006 American Literature Association convention on May 25-28, 2006, in San Francisco.

The first session will be devoted to "ethnic" characters in the broadest sense, his representation of people of African-American, Mexican, Cuban, Irish, Swedish, and Jewish descent, to name only a few of the groups he writes about. His fiction indicates much about the diversity and complexity of American society at the turn of the century.

Please send all proposals via email by December 1, 2005 to Jim Nagel at jnagel at uga.edu. For details about registration and hotel reservations, please go to americanliterature.org and click on conferences.

If you are still planning on submitting a paper or proposal for one
of the two panels at the 2005 American Literature Association
convention (Boston, 26-29 May 2005, Westin Copley Place Hotel), would you please do so by 31 December 2004? The first session will be devoted to Crane's interrelated stories, especially the Whilomville
stories, the Sullivan County Sketches, and the stories of the Bowery.
The second panel will be open to all topics. Please send your paper
or proposal via email to
1. Jim Nagel, jnagel at uga.edu
AND
2. Paul Sorrentino, psorrent at vt.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS ALA 2005
The Stephen Crane Society invites papers and proposals for two panels at the 2005 American Literature Association convention in Boston, 26-29 May 2005, at the Westin Copley Place Hotel.

The first session will be devoted to Crane's interrelated stories, especially the Whilomville stories, the Sullivan County Sketches, and the stories of the Bowery. The second panel will be open to all topics.

Please send all materials via email to Jim Nagel at the University of Georgia, jnagel at uga.edu.

Dr. James Nagel
J. O. Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature
University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602