Call for Papers Archive
14TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY SOCIETY CONFERENCE:HEMINGWAYS EXTREME GEOGRAPHIES
Lausanne, Switzerland - June 25-July 3, 2010
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009
The Hemingway Society invites paper, workshop, and panel proposals for the 14th International Hemingway conference: Hemingways Extreme Geographies. With Hemingways Extreme Geographies, the organizers wish to prompt a consideration of the ways the experience of space and geographyits physical, psychological, and emotional dimensionsinformed Hemingways writing. Hemingway had an acute sense of space and its evocative capabilities. Hemingway also wrote about the geography of the bodythe way it imposes its own limits and topography by being marked, scarred, or gendered. Even Hemingways sentences, grammar, and syntax suggest the importance of the material space of the story and the terrain of the words on the page.
Featured conference speakers: Linda Wagner-Martin, Debra Moddelmog, Noel Riley Fitch, H.R. Stoneback, Carl Eby, Kirk Curnutt, Elizabeth Bronfen, Patrick Vincent, and Allen Josephs.
Proposals: Organizers encourage participants to interpret the conference theme broadly. We welcome proposals on all aspects of Hemingways artistic and existential experience, but we are particularly interested in contributions that explore Hemingways penchant for intense experiences in liminal spaces (physical and psychological) as a starting point for his writing.
Topics of the conference may include but are not limited to the following themes:
Corporeal Geographies:
Switzerland as a place of encounter and dis-encounter
Africa, Cuba, Switzerland, Spain, France, and the place of the other
The Gulf Stream, Key West, Michigan, The American West
Ketchum, and the unhomeliness of home
Warscapes (WWI, Spanish Civil War, WWII)
Aviation, traveling
Boundary crossing (literal and figurative)
The bodily experience of space; the jubilant/sensual and the injured body
The geographies of sports
The gendering and the ethics of topography
The carnivalesque
Hemingway and the Romantic tradition
Mental Geographies:
The literary space:
Hemingways sentences
The art of omission
Narrative lines and narrative interruptions
The space of Hemingways paragraph
A room with a view: the construction of aesthetics in Hemingways writing
The space identity (gender, racial, public):
Remorse; or, the land of the past
Regeneration through violence
Masculine territories and the frontier of the other
The construction of Authorship and the defense of authorial territory
Other issues:
Materialism and idealismthe world here and now and worlds beyond
Hemingway and religious sentiment
The crisis of reality and unreality of reality
Existentialism and mysticism
The sublimation of injury and the extreme spaces of experience
The experience of beauty and the sublime; or, Hemingway and the (post-) Romantic tradition
The extremes of the reception of Hemingway
Reading Hemingway in Africa, Europe, Asia
All proposals are due by Sept. 15, 2009. Proposals should be sent to the conference organizers (Suzanne del Gizzo and Boris Vejdovsky) at hemingway2010@comcast.net.
To see the full Call for Papers, including more information on proposing a paper, panel or workshop, and for more information on the current program please visit: www.hemingwaysociety.org (click on Lausanne) or email the conference organizers at hemingway2010@comcast.net.
Conference Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Conference Starts: June 25, 2010
Conference Ends: July 03, 2010
CFP Submission Deadline: September 15, 2009
For more information, contact: Suzanne del Gizzo