Jamesian Strands

The Fourth International Conference of the Henry James Society

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Salve Regina University

Newport, Rhode Island

9-13 July 2008

We invite papers and panels on any aspects of James’s work, life, or influence; on Jamesian narrative, cultural, historical or critical “strands”; on James in Newport/Newport in James; and on new directions and critical legacies in James studies.

For paper proposals, send a 500-word abstract (maximum) and brief vitae; for panel proposals, send a 700-word abstract (maximum) summarizing the panel’s rationale and describing each paper. Please send too a brief vitae for each speaker. 

Panels will be accepted or rejected as a whole. Proposals must include titles of papers (and panel if appropriate); presenter’s (and panel organizer’s) name(s) and institutional affiliation(s); mailing address, phone, fax and email address; two (2) copies of submitted materials (for hard-copy proposals).  Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English.  Panels should consist of three to four papers and may be chaired by one of the presenters.

Deadline for paper abstracts and panel proposals: 20 December 2007

Send to:

Julie Rivkin, Box 5593

Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320

OR email:

julie.rivkin@conncoll.edu

OR

jamesianstrands@gmail.com



Confirmed Speakers:




Bill Brown

Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago

Wai Chee Dimock

William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University

Richard Howard

Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts




 From “Tracing Henry James,” Venice, 2005