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Heart of Darkness — Touring theatre show, March, April, May 2019
Co-produced by Marche Teatro and Cast. Supported by Arts Council England, Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University and Theatre by the Lake.
Following the popular and critically acclaimed adaptation of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, imitating the dog turn their attention to Joseph Conrad’s extraordinarily influential novella, Heart of Darkness.
This bold new staging of the Conrad classic is a visually rich, multi-layered work which fuses live performance with digital technology.
More information, including venues and dates, may be accessed here
Joseph Conrad Study Day at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, TW1 4SX, 14 February 2019 12:30-5:00
St Mary’s University will be hosting a ‘Conrad Day’ on Thursday 14 February in the Senior Common Room at St Mary’s campus in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. There will be four papers including ‘Some Recent Trends in Conrad Studies’ presented by the Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), Professor Robert Hampson.
For more information, full programme, and the booking form, see here
Conrad Panel at MLA Convention Chicago (USA) 3-6 January 2019
Conrad’s Politics of Hope
In the spirit of recent challenges to the hermeneutics of suspicion, we invite papers that take the idealism in Conrad’s writing seriously. The law of unintended consequences rules Conrad’s fiction, and characters who voice idealistic aspirations usually fail to achieve them, but does the failure of idealism necessarily discredit it? Does Conrad imagine alternatives to the hypocrisy, selfishness, and materialism he portrays? Does he balance critique with hope?
Book launch of Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks. Institute of English Studies Senate House, London, 13 September 2018, 5.00pm
Join Dr. Helen Chambers, Honorary Associate in English at the Open University for the launch of her monograph, Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks, (Palgrave Macmillan, New Directions in Book History). This title aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on this globally studied writer, and explores Conrad’s childhood and maritime reading, his many fictional representations of readers and material texts, and the reading he shared with literary women as well as men.
The event is free to attend but registration is required, further information and the booking form may be accessed here.
45th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.)
The 45th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), 5 – 7 July 2018, was held at Writtle University College, Chelmsford, Essex.
The final 2018 conference programme can be downloaded from the Annual International Conference Archives page.
Objects in Hardy and Conrad: Conference to be held at the University of Rouen on 24-25 May 2018
This two-day conference focused on the significance of “objects” in the works of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, both in terms of how objects are represented — as social markers, for example — and the works themselves as objets d’ art. It was organized by FATHOM (French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies), and held at the University of Rouen on 24-25 May 2018.
You may download the full notice here (in English) and here (in French).
Placing Conrad: Space and Geography in Conrad’s Fiction. Senate House, London, 17 February 2018
This symposium, which marks the occasion of Professor Hampson’s retirement from full-time teaching, celebrates his contribution to Conrad Studies by bringing together new, established and independent scholars to develop fresh perspectives on a key area of his oeuvre: the spaces of Conrad’s fiction.
The past decade has witnessed a tremendous quickening of interest in the spatial and environmental humanities. These trends have proven remarkably important for scholars of English literature. Whether in building on earlier works in spatial theory, eco-criticism and psychogeography, in conducting geographically informed distant readings, or in exploring the global, transnational, and geopolitical contexts of specific writers and works: scholarship in English literature is increasingly concerned with the interactions between literary texts and their environments.
This symposium examines a range of spatial topics in relation to Conrad’s works including space and time, gesture, law, maps, and reception. The day concludes with a plenary lecture from Iain Sinclair and a reception.
Enquiries to: Katherine.baxter@northumbria.ac.uk Download programme here
“Precarious Lives in Conrad and Ford”: Proposal for a Special Session at the 2018 MLA Convention
Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of the states of precariousness or insecurity represented in the fictions of Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. This proposal is for a non-guaranteed special session at the 2018 MLA Convention in New York City (USA) and jointly sponsored by the Ford Madox Ford Society and The Joseph Conrad Society of America.
You may download the full CFP here. This CFP is now closed.
The 43rd Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society was held at POSK (the Polish Social and Cultural Organisation) in Hammersmith, London, 7th – 9th July 2017.
Photographs from the conference, in addition to the 2017 Final Programme, are linked through the Annual Conference Archives page.