UPDATE: We welcome paper proposals for the following specialised panels (deadline: 15 July 2017):
1. Sterne and Travel Writing: 18th-21st centuries
The panel will cover various aspects of Sternean fashions in travel writing from the 1760s to the present day, in English and world literature.
Convenor: Prof. Magdalena Ożarska, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce
Convenor: Prof. Magdalena Ożarska, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce
Send paper proposals to mozarska@gmail.com and j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl
2. Sterne and (Post)Modernism revisited
The panel will cover various aspects of Sterne's impact on 20th- and 21st-century literature, revisiting some of the issues addressed in the collection Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism (ed. Peter de Voogd, David Pierce; Rodopi, 1996).
The panel will cover various aspects of Sterne's impact on 20th- and 21st-century literature, revisiting some of the issues addressed in the collection Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism (ed. Peter de Voogd, David Pierce; Rodopi, 1996).
Convenor: Prof. Peter de Voogd, University of Utrecht
3. Sterne, liberature, and the contemporary novel
The panel will address the multifaceted imprint of Sterne on the contemporary novelistic discourse.
Convenor: Dr Katarzyna Bazarnik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Send paper proposals to k.bazarnik@uj.edu.pl and j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl
4. The Age of Sterne in the 21st century
The panel will concentrate on the uses and abuses of the Georgian period - especially, though not exclusively, the 1750s and 1760s (the "Sternean" decades) - in contemporary literature and popular culture.
Convenor: Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
Send paper proposals to dr.daniel.cook@gmail.com and j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl
The panel will concentrate on the uses and abuses of the Georgian period - especially, though not exclusively, the 1750s and 1760s (the "Sternean" decades) - in contemporary literature and popular culture.
Convenor: Dr Daniel Cook, University of Dundee
Send paper proposals to dr.daniel.cook@gmail.com and j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl
the International Laurence Sterne Foundation
and
the Department of English,
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
invite paper proposals for
The Second International
Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference
on the theme of
Adaptation in the Age of
Sterne
Although the
primary concern of the conference will be the work of Laurence Sterne and its
afterlife, we are also interested in papers shedding light on the broader
context of the Age of Sterne.
Paper proposals
(200-word abstracts) should be sent to Peter de Voogd peterdevoogd@fastmail.fm and
Jakub Lipski j.lipski@ukw.edu.pl by June 15, 2017.
Notifications of
acceptance will be sent at the end of June 2017.
Delegates
wishing to present a paper must be members of the Foundation, the online
membership form can be found here.