News from the Henry James Society
• Click here to register for Placing Henry James (London, June 29 - July 1, 2012). The conference's provisional program is available here.
• Call for Papers: The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR. Click here for more information.
• Call for Papers: The Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy (Toruń, Poland), is accepting proposals for papers to be presented at the first international Henry James conference (Toruń, 26 - 28 April 2013). Click here for more details.
• The following papers have been selected for presentation at the HJS session of the 2013 Modern Language Association Convention (Boston, 3-6 January 2013).
--Harilaos Stecopoulos (University of Iowa): "Henry James, Propagandist"
--Brad Evans (Rutgers University [New Brunswick]): "The Art of Associating: Henry James, Network Theorist"
--Shawna Ross (Pennsylvania State University): "What Would Strether Tweet? James's Late Style as a New Media Ecology in The Ambassadors"
--Ashley C. Barnes (University of California, Berkeley): "Henry James and New Media" (on the scrapbook collage houses of James's era, object relations, and Bob and Fanny Assingham's marriage in The Golden Bowl)
• Call for Papers: "Reading James." Who reads James? When? Where? How? Why? What did James want from his readers? How did he read his own writings and those of others? New work on the history, sociology, culture, psychology, even the biology of reading has made these questions fresh. This special issue of the Henry James Review invites contributions on all aspects of Jamesian reading. Click here for more details and the complete call.
• "'A Stray Savage in Oxford': A Henry James Centenary Symposium" commemorates the exact centenary of James receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. Click here for the complete program, including details on registration.
• The Empire State Center for the Book has announced that Henry James will be elected to their NYS Writers Hall of Fame. The induction will take place on 5 June 2012 at the Princeton Club of New York. The Empire State Center for the Book is part of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is housed at the New York Library Association. For more information about the Empire State Center for the Book, or for more details about the induction, click here.
• For a copy of the program for the Henry James Society's July 2011 Rome conference, Transforming Henry James, click here.
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