Rome Conference: July 2013 (final programme revised 3 May)

The 39th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) will be held in Rome, 10 - 13 July 2013. Hosted by Professor Richard Ambrosini, the conference will take place at the Università di Roma Tre and other venues in the historic city.

The Call for Papers is now CLOSED. The Conference Programme, travel details, and information on hotel accommodations are available on the Annual Conference page.

Call for Papers: Joseph Conrad

This panel will take place at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013.

The organizers welcome papers on any aspect of Joseph Conrad’s life or work. Presenters will have 15-minutes of delivery time.

Please submit abstracts (250-300 words) by May 15, 2013 to Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida.

Call for Papers: Conrad and Technology

Any papers on Conrad will be considered for this panel, sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, with preference given to those that address the topic "Conrad and Technology."

Note that technology should be understood in the broadest sense to include new teaching and research technologies as well as technologies theoretical and thematic in Conrad studies.

Please submit abstracts by May 17, 2013 to Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, University of Wisconsin River Falls.

Screening of Hanyut (Almayer’s Folly) with post-film panel discussion

The Culture Capital Exchange (Somerset House) will present U-Wei Haji Saan's Hanyut, an award-winning adaptation of Joseph Conrad's first novel, Almayer’s Folly (1895). After the film there will be a short break followed by a panel discussion with the director.

This event is scheduled for Thursday, 6 June 2013. It will take place at: 2nd floor, South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. Guests will arrive at 5:30 PM for the 6 PM screening of the film, with the panel discussion to follow from 8:15 PM to 9 PM.

The cost is free (there will, however, be a no-show fee of £20).

See the TCCE website for booking and details.

The 1st Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan

The Joseph Conrad Society of Japan will be holding its 1st Annual Conference in Tokyo this summer.

This is a one-day conference, scheduled for Saturday, 22 June 2013, from 10:00 - 17:00. It will take place at Atomi University, Bunkyo Campus, Tokyo, Rms. M2606 and M2604, No. 2 Building. The location is 3 minutes’ walk from Marunouchi Line’s Myogadani underground station.

See the attached flier for more details.

Cambridge Edition: Volumes in 2013

The co-general editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad are pleased to announce that two volumes, the twelfth and thirteenth, respectively, are currently in press and due to appear this summer and autumn.

The Shadow-Line, edited by J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, is due out in September 2013. The critical text dispenses with the chapter divisions imposed by serialization and presents the novella, for the first time, as a continuous narrative.

Cambridge Edition: Volumes in 2013

The co-general editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad are pleased to announce that two volumes, the twelfth and thirteenth, respectively, are currently in press and due to appear this summer and autumn.

Under Western Eyes, edited by Roger Osborne and Paul Eggert, with an Introduction by Keith Carabine and Notes by Jeremy Hawthorn and Keith Carabine, is scheduled for publication in October 2013. The volume contains the extensive typescript deletions that Conrad made in revising the novel.

Conrad in Persian

Soheil Sommi, an Iranian translator of works by Doris Lessing, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Samuel Beckett, has now translated Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Shadow-Line, and Typhoon into Persian.

See the following brief announcement from the Iran Book News Agency website.

Conrad in Serial Form

The periodical archive that forms the basis for Conrad First: The Joseph Conrad Periodical Archive has been acquired by St Mary's University College, Twickenham. The archive is an essential tool for the study of Conrad's dissemination in popular formats, and the generosity of the College will permit Conrad scholars to pursue questions related to reception and textual transmission. Mary Burgoyne has been named the Collections Archivist. Details of access have yet to be worked out.

It is hoped that the collection will continue grow, and that new acquistions will add to an already essential stock of serializations. Donations are welcome and possible donors should contact Mary Burgoyne through the College.

Chance: Centennial Essays

The Editors of The Conradian have announced plans for a special issue of the journal (39.1: Spring 2014) to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Chance. This issue will also be published as a monograph by Rodopi of Amsterdam in the Conrad Studies series.

The issue will be edited by Susan Jones, Allan H. Simmons, and J. H. Stape. Submissions for this issue are now being solicited. Deadline: May 2013.

Joseph Conrad Society of America Conference: Vancouver, British Columbia

Hosted by Fairleigh Dickinson University–Vancouver, The Joseph Conrad Society of America will hold a conference on 13–16 August 2014 celebrating and investigating facets of Conrad's life and work.

Download the first Call for Papers.

The conference, which also marks the centenary of the opening of First World War, has as its theme "Conrad: Conflict and Solidarities." This should be interpreted broadly, and especially welcome are panels and papers dealing with the works Conrad wrote during the War, with teaching, and, in keeping with the international character of the host university, with multi-cultural and international topics.

The conference site is downtown Vancouver at the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus at 842 Cambie Street. Further details about registration and costs and accommodation options will be announced in due course.