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Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity 20 October 2023 to 28 January 2024
The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY
The exhibition featured the first public showing of Beerbohm’s caricature of Joseph Conrad in an ‘improved’ copy of A Christmas Garland, and the original manuscript of the parody, ‘THE FEAST’ by J*S*PH C*NR*D, as published in the latter volume.
To Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
The Polish Library POSK in London presents: Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Life and Work Exhibition
Curated by Dr Dobrosława Platt, Director of the Polish Library POSK, with the assistance of Dr Hugh Epstein, Honorary Secretary, Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
Literary London Reading Group – Senate House, London, 9 January 2024
Dr George Legg (KCL) will host an in-person session entitled ‘Melodrama, Pity and the Politics of Illustration in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent’
The Conrad Panel at MLA Convention Philadelphia (USA) January 2024
Splendid Difficulty: Teaching Conrad
Sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, the panel is chaired by Debra Romanick Baldwin (University of Dallas).
The Melville, Conrad Panel at MLA Convention Philadelphia (USA) January 2024
Melville, Conrad, and the Concept of Life: Celebration & Sorrow
The panel, chaired by Mark Deggan (Simon Fraser University), is a joint venture of the Joseph Conrad Society of America and the Melville Society.
Joseph Conrad – Mariner, Neo-Romantic, Humanist: Texts and Contexts of Life and Work
December 12 — 09:30 – 11:00 GMT
Online event led by Department of Philology at the International University of Economics and Humanities, Rivne, Ukraine
Special issue of The Conradian – Conrad and World Literature
Guest editors Simla Dogangun and Chris GoGwilt.
The Second Conrad Symposium, Paris, 28 and 29 September 2023
‘The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in the 21st Century’
One of the symposium objectives is to disseminate the responses to Conrad’s fiction on an international scale and to propagate the understanding of his Polish heritage.
For more information see here For the event website see here