I presume this will be a well- attended event, a very memorable one
next summer. I hope it will have some hybrid events, and much be put
on
YouTube eventually. Ellen
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From: Coordinator SHARP <coordinator@...>
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 10:52?AM
Subject: [SHARP-L] Call for Papers: The Global Jane Austen
To: <sharp-l@...>
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Global Jane Austen: Celebrating and Commemorating 250 years of Jane Austen
University of Southampton, July 10-12, 2025
Austen scholars and enthusiasts are invited to the University of
Southampton, Hampshire, for a conference commemorating Austen¡¯s birth
in the year 1775.
In 1976, Juliet McMaster introduced an edited collection of essays
resulting from a bicentenary birthday celebration for Austen in the
following terms:
To celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen¡¯s birth in
October, in Western Canada, is no doubt to be guilty of a comic
incongruity. But as though to compensate for the misdemeanor, the
papers delivered at the conference have a common and exact focus on
period and locale.
50 years after the bicentenary conference at the University of Alberta
in Edmonton, the scholarly landscape of Austen studies has changed.
Where many monographs and edited collections of essays still maintain
an ¡®exact focus on period and locale¡¯, research informed by book
history, the material, archival and linguistic turns in literary
criticism, postcolonial studies and adaptation theory (among others)
has flourished in the intervening decades. The ever-expanding corpus
of adaptations, sequels and prequels has proven fruitful territory for
a consideration of Austen¡¯s reception, in its broadest sense. Austen¡¯s
transformations into other languages and into other cultures make her
a Global author.
We invite the international community to the port city that was Jane
Austen¡¯s home from 1806-1809 for a consideration of the Global Jane
Austen. We encourage the broadest possible interpretation of the
conference theme, and welcome papers on all aspects of Austen¡¯s
writing and life, her posthumous reception, her influences, and her
writing alongside that of her contemporaries. We particularly welcome
papers on adaptations, translations and creative responses to Austen¡¯s
work (written and/or performed in all languages), material and textual
transmission of her works, and her reception and reputation in
countries outside the Anglophone world. Discussion of the Global
within her works (and those of her contemporaries) is equally
acceptable.
We have a small amount of funding available to support postgraduate,
Early Career Scholars, scholars with no institutional support, and
scholars from outside the Anglophone world. Please note on your
abstract if you fall into one of these categories, and would like to
be considered for such funding.
Submission
Please submit abstracts for individual papers of 250 words, or
proposals for 3-person panels of 1000 words, to the conference
organisers, Gillian Dow and Katie Halsey. Please submit as Word or PDF
documents by email to both G.Dow@...
andkatherine.halsey@... by 1 October 2024.
Confirmed Speakers Include:
Susan Allen Ford; Serena Baiesi, Janine Barchas; Jennie Batchelor;
Annika Bautz; Isabelle Bour; Joe Bray; Linda Bree; Inger Brody;
Val¨¦rie Cossy; Richard Cronin; Carlotta Farese; Susannah Fullerton;
Sayre Greenfield; Isobel Grundy; Christine Kenyon Jones; Freya
Johnston; Michael Kramp; Devoney Looser; Deidre Lynch; Anthony Mandal;
Juliet McMaster; Marie Nedregotten S?rb?; Peter Sabor; Diego Saglia;
Rebecca Smith; Jane Stabler; Kathryn Sutherland; Bharat Tandon; Janet
Todd; Anne Toner; Linda Troost; Juliette Wells.
Further details at:
Ellen Moody