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The Melville, Conrad Panel at MLA Convention Philadelphia (USA) January 2024

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.

More information here

Joseph Conrad - Mariner, Neo-Romantic, Humanist: Texts and Contexts of Life and Work

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

For more information see here

Special issue of The Conradian – Conrad and World Literature

Guest editors Simla Dogangun and Chris GoGwilt.

The 6th conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan, 11 November 2023

The 6th conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan, 11 November 2023

Programme available here

Abstracts available here

The Second Conrad Symposium, Paris, 28 and 29 September 2023

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

New Production of “Heart of Darkness”

New Production of “Heart of Darkness”

A multi-media, immersive performance bringing to life Joseph Conrad’s classic tale.

Three performances only. Saturday 30th September at 4pm and 7pm; Sunday 1st October at 2pm.

Torriano Meeting House, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RX

Further information here

St Mary’s University Joseph Conrad Lecture Series in collaboration with the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) presents "Reading Conrad in the Modern World"

Joseph Conrad Society of Japan

Presentation by Yael Levin, ‘The Future of Conrad Studies’

Webinar:  22 August 2023 – 11:00 am (BST) 19:00 (JST)

More details here

The Conrad Panel at SAMLA Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 11-13 November 2022

The Conrad Panel at SAMLA Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 11-13 November 2022

“Aspects of Change in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad”

For more information see here

Book launch of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad. Institute for Modern Language Research, Senate House, London, 20 October 2022 14.30 to 17.30

Book launch of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad. Institute for Modern Language Research, Senate House, London, 20 October 2022 14.30 to 17.30

Free event to mark the publication of The European Reception of Joseph Conrad (Bloomsbury 2022) edited by Robert Hampson and Véronique Pauly.

For more information see here