News Archive
Charity Premiere and UK Release for Peter Fudakowski’s Secret Sharer (2014)
Peter Fudakowski’s Secret Sharer (2014) will have its charity premiere on Monday 23rd June at the Curzon Mayfair cinema in London. This 6:15 PM screening of the film will be followed by a brief Q&A with the director and Jack Laskey.
Tickets are £25 per person, if purchased before 2nd June. After 2nd June, tickets are £50 per person. Proceeds from this charity event will go to the Foundling Museum and the Coram Foundation.
The film will also be released in selected cinemas in the UK, including the Curzon Mayfair and the Curzon Victoria, starting Friday 27th June. Tickets are £15 per person.
For more information, see the filmmaker’s official website at www.secretsharerthemovie.com.
An eBook of Conrad’s The Secret Sharer, with Fudakowski’s screenplay of the movie and a review by Gene Moore, has been published by Bloomsbury. For more information, or to order your copy, see the publisher’s website here.
Adapting Conrad: A multi-disciplinary conference on what happens to books when translated into other media
‘Adapting Conrad’ will be a one-day conference hosted by the Institute of English Studies at Senate House, London, on 30 May 2014. The conference is part of a series of events celebrating and criticizing adaptations of Conrad’s works.
For more information, see the official IES website announcement here. The Call for Papers is now closed.
The Cunninghame Graham Society, Launch Meeting
The Cunninghame Graham Society will host a Launch Meeting at 1:00 PM on Saturday, 8 March at The Smith Art Gallery & Museum in Dumbarton Rd, Stirling FK8 2RQ, UK. Download the announcement poster in PDF here.
The guest speaker will be Laurence Davies, co-author of Cunninghame Graham: A Critical Biography (Cambridge, 2008). Entrance is FREE and all are welcome.
For more information, contact the organizers at lachiemunro25@gmail.com.
There is a link to the Cunninghame Graham Society on the Links page.
Secret Sharer Special Screening
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Polish Social and Cultural Association Ltd., Premiere Releasing will present a special screening of director Peter Fudakowski’s Secret Sharer on Sunday, 9 March 2014, at 5:00 PM. This event will take place at the POSK Theatre, 238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A session with the director Peter Fudakowski and Prof. Robert Hampson, Conrad scholar and critic.
Tickets may be purchased at www.secretsharer-posk.eventbrite.co.uk. For more information on this event, download the flier here.
Conrad in Serial Form
The periodical archive that forms the basis for Conrad First: The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive has been acquired by St Mary’s University College, Twickenham. The archive is an essential tool for the study of Conrad’s dissemination in popular formats, and the generosity of the College will permit Conrad scholars to pursue questions related to reception and textual transmission. Mary Burgoyne has been named the Collections Archivist. Details of access have yet to be worked out.
It is hoped that the collection will continue grow, and that new acquistions will add to an already essential stock of serializations. Donations are welcome and possible donors should contact Mary Burgoyne through the College.
Chance: Centennial Essays
The Editors of The Conradian have announced plans for a special issue of the journal (39.1: Spring 2014) to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Chance. This issue will also be published as a monograph by Rodopi of Amsterdam in the Conrad Studies series.
The issue will be edited by Susan Jones, Allan H. Simmons, and J. H. Stape, and is now full.
Secret Sharer Pre-Premiere and Dinner with Director
Premiere Releasing will present the pre-premiere of Peter Fudakowski’s Secret Sharer, followed by a Q&A session with the director, on Thurs, 30 Jan 2014 from 18:30 to 22:00 (GMT) at the Ognisko Polskie | Polish Hearth Club, 55 Exhibition Rd, SW7 2PG, London, UK.
The critically acclaimed Ognisko Restaurant is offering guests the chance to join the director for a two-course dinner after the Q&A for an additional price.
For more information, see the PR announcement here. The film’s official website may also be accessed here.
Christopher Hampton’s Film of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Screening and Panel Discussion with the Writer-Director
Christopher Hampton, playwright and Academy award-winning screenwriter, wrote and directed an adaptation of Conrad’s The Secret Agent in 1996. This event is one in a series of events by Royal Holloway University London, examining adaptations of Conrad’s work. As part of that series, the Inside-Out Festival will be screening the film and following it with a panel featuring Christopher Hampton in conversation with Dr Andrew Glazzard and Professor Jonathan Powell. The film will be introduced by Professor Robert Hampson. Please note that The Secret Agent has a Certificate 12 rating.
The event is scheduled to take place at The Screening Room, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA on Fri 25 October 2013, 6.30pm – 9pm (Doors open at 6pm). Admission is FREE, but booking is required. Please note: a £20 cancellation fee for no-shows and those cancelling within 24 hours of the event.
For more information, please visit the Inside Out Festival website here.
Cambridge Edition: Volumes in 2013
The co-general editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad are pleased to announce that two volumes, the twelfth and thirteenth, respectively, are currently in press and due to appear this summer and autumn.
Under Western Eyes, edited by Roger Osborne and Paul Eggert, with an Introduction by Keith Carabine and Notes by Jeremy Hawthorn and Keith Carabine, is scheduled for publication in October 2013. The volume contains the extensive typescript deletions that Conrad made in revising the novel.