| The Joseph Conrad Society’s
2010 Annual International Conference, its 36th, will be held on
14-17 September in Versailles and Paris as a joint conference
with the La
Société Conradienne Française. PROGRAMME
and BOOKING FORM AVAILABLE
UPDATE:TRAIN
TIMETABLES to St-Quentin-en-Yvelines from Central Paris
Trains
from Montparnasse OR RER
C Trains (pdf. reader required: ).
The most convenient trains on the opening day are as follows: From
Gare Montparnasse, the train leaving at 11.58 and arriving at St
Quentin at 12.33; or the next one leaving at 12.28 and arriving
at 13.03. On the
RER C from St-Michel leaving at 11.33 and arriving at12.36 or leaving
at 12.23 and arrriving at 13.06.
The Booking
Form and tentative Conference
Programme are posted here. Pre-booking is strongly advised in
order to expedite registration and to avoid possible additional
charges for currency exchange chargeable at registration at the
conference. Please note that the conference schedule is subject
to change.
Registration will open at 13.00, with sessions beginning
at 14.00 on 14 September. Late Registration will open at 9.00 on
Wednesday with a formal welcome at 9.45 and with sessions beginning
at 10.00.
Participants should note that no formal arrangements
will be made for lunch on Tuesday. Several restaurants are convenient
to the university and in the shopping mall near the railway station.
For lunch, if the weather is clement, the spacious university grounds
afford possibilities for a sandwich and other light refreshments
outdoors purchased at the railway station or along the way.
The conference will close with the Gala Dinner
on Friday evening at the Brasserie
Vagenende on the Boulevard St-Germain in the Latin Quarter,
following the sessions at the Bibliothèque Polonaise in central
Paris.
Venues
The Tuesday to Thursday sessions will be held
at the Université
de Versailles-St-Quentin in suburban Paris (easily accessible
via the surburban train network, the RER, from the Latin Quarter
at St-Michel or the Gare Montparnasse) and the Friday sessions at
the Bibliothèque
Polonaise de Paris in the very centre of Paris on the Ile-de-la-Cité.
Membership
All participants who are not
already members of one of the societies will be required to take
out membership for one year in the society of their choice.
Practicalities
Participants will be expected to make their own
arrangements for accommodation. The file Hotel
Information contains suggestions about reasonably priced and
conveniently located hotels in Paris.
The Montparnasse district is recommended as allowing
ready access to the suburban train (RER: Line C) to Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines
and to transportation by bus and metro in central Paris. The file
How to Get There
contains information on how to reach St-Quentin from central Paris
and on access to the Polish Library.
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