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Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad’s Colonialism
Join Harvard professor and historian of the British Empire, Maya Jasanoff and V&A Director Tristram Hunt for a discussion about Jasanoff’s ground-breaking new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, and how Conrad’s work resonates today.
This discussion is scheduled to be held at The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre from 19.00 – 20.45 on Wednesday, 1 November 2017.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, see the following official announcement from the Victoria and Albert Museum website.
The 3rd Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan
The 3rd Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan is scheduled to be held at Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Nursing, 8-1, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, on November 12, 2017. Details of the conference will be posted on the university website when available: Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Nursing.
The deadline for submission of abstracts has passed.
For more information regarding this conference, download the promotional flyer in .pdf HERE, or download the final conference programme in .pdf HERE.
International Conference on Joseph Conrad. Twixt Land and Sea, 17–18 November 2017
This conference will take place at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn in the heart of the picturesque Polish Lake District (http://www.uwm.edu.pl/en/node/36 ). The organisers will offer moderately priced accommodation on the university campus (details will be announced on the website) for the duration of the conference. The conference fee covers: coffee breaks, lunches, gala dinner, and conference materials.
Proposals for 20-minute presentations should be sent to the following conference address: conrad2017olsztyn@gmail.com. Please download and attach a submission form in .docx linked HERE. Submissions are welcome until September 1st, 2017. Notifications of acceptance will be forwarded within 2 weeks since the receiving of your submission form.
For more information regarding this conference, download the promotional flyer in .pdf HERE.
Full text of Conrad’s 1902 novella Typhoon recorded by RNIB in 1935
A unique copy of the first full-length audio book ever made, a set of four LPs recorded in 1935 with the full text of Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella Typhoon, has been rediscovered in Canada.
See the full story published in The Guardian (November 21, 2016) here.
Between Texts and Theory: Transnational Conrad, 21-22 September, 2017
Hosted by the Société Conradienne Française, with the support of Associazione Italiana di Studi Conradiani, this conference seeks to interrogate our reading of works by Joseph Conrad from a transnational perspective, in order to explore how his approach to fiction makes it possible for us to question the way we read novels as aesthetic and ethical artefacts in the contemporary world.
The two-day conference is scheduled for 21-22 September, 2017, and will be held at the University of Limoges, France, EA 1087 EHIC (Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles). A selection of papers will be published in L’Epoque Conradienne.
The deadline for submission of proposals is now closed.
Conradian Crosscurrents: Creativity and Critique, June 1 – 4, 2017
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is organizing a conference in New York City to be sponsored by Fordham University’s Comparative Literature Program and English Department and to be held at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus (and other locations to be announced) at the beginning of June of 2017 (June 1 – 4).
“Conradian Crosscurrents: Creativity and Critique” will explore how Conrad’s life and fiction intersect with creative and critical work of any kind. The conference will be open to scholarly work on Conrad and other writers; and on literary, artistic, and theoretical work from across the range of media (literature, music, performance, art, and mixed media).
We invite proposals for 15-20 minute papers. Please send 1-page abstract plus CV to newyorkconradconference@gmail.com by January 15, 2017.
Joseph Conrad Study Day at the British Library, 13 March 2017, 14:00-17:30
In association with the British Council, the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and the Polish Cultural Institute, this study day considers Conrad’s career as a novelist and his contribution to British culture in the year that has been designated ‘Joseph Conrad Year’ in Poland.
Professor Robert Hampson initiates an afternoon of expert discussion with a lecture on Conrad as ‘England’s Polish Genius’. This is followed by the first of two panels which explores ‘Joseph Conrad and London’ with Dr. Hugh Epstein (‘Conrad’s Vision of London’), Dr. Patricia Pye (‘Listening to London: the sound of Conrad’s city’) and Dr. Mary Burgoyne (‘Homecoming: Joseph Conrad and the Great War).
This event is scheduled for 13 March 2017, 14:00-17:30 at the Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. For more information, see the announcement here.
42nd Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.)
The 42nd Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society UK will be held at Edinburgh Napier University, in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Wednesday 29th June to Saturday 2nd July, 2016. A Call for Papers, Booking Form, and further conference details will be posted early in the New Year. These will include costs, travel and accommodation arrangements as well as an outline of the conference schedule.
The Call for Papers is now closed. To download the Final Programme for Edinburgh 2016, click here (for PDF), or here (MS Word).
The Booking Form for this year’s conference may be downloaded here. Those who wish to secure hotel accommodation in advance are advised to book rooms at The Bruntsfield Hotel where a number of rooms have been reserved for conference participants.
A list of recommendations for additional accommodations in Edinburgh may be downloaded here.
For the informational flier, click here.
Conrad’s Footprints: 2016 International Conrad Conference (Lublin, Poland)
The Centre for Conrad Studies, English Department, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, will host its Sixth International Joseph Conrad Conference from June 20-24, 2016. Conradians and students and lovers of Conrad are heartily invited to attend.
WHERE: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
WHEN: 20-24 June, 2016
The organizers have also planned a special study tour of “Conrad’s footprints,” which is scheduled for 24-30 June, 2016.
For more information, visit the website of the Centre for Conrad Studies (Lublin) here. To submit an abstract, see the Call for Papers (available for download in PDF) here. Contact information is listed at both locations.