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Conrad in the Public Eye
A design competition to create a room on the Southbank Centre,
one of the most visible sites in the British capital, where up to
two people at a time could spend a unique night in an exemplary
architectural landmark. attracted 500 entries from around the world
and has been won by David Kohn Architects.
The firm constructed a boat resembling Conrad's Roi des Belges
in which he travelled on the Congo in 1890. Full details, pictures,
and press coverage can be accessed at the following website: A
Room for London.
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The Cambridge Edition
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad added new titles,
its ninth and tenth, in January 2012: Lord Jim, A Tale,
edited by J. H. Stape and Ernest W. Sullivan II, and Tales of
Unrest, edited by Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape.
The early months of the new year will see the publication in the
series of Within the Tides, edited by Alexandre Fachard
with an Introduction by Laurence Davies and Notes by Alexandre Fachard
and Andrew Purssell.
All three volumes have been awarded the Seal of Approval of the
Committee on Scholarly Editing of the Modern Language Society of
America.
Volumes currently under contract and actively in progress include
The Shadow-Line, Under Western Eyes, An Outcast
of the Islands, The Rover, and The Plays.
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Chance:
Centennial Essays
The Editors announce plans for a special issue
of The Conradian (38.2: Autumn 2013) to celebrate the hundredth
anniversary of the publication of Chance.
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.
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Joseph Conrad
Society 2012 Annual Conference, July 2012: Call for Papers
The Joseph Conrad Society’s 2012 Annual
International Conference, will be held from 4-7 July 2012
at Bath Spa University's Sion Hill Campus in central Bath.
Proposals of 150-200 words on any topic related
to Conrad's life and work are welcome. Given the upcoming centenary
of the publication of Chance, which the Society will mark
with a special issue of The Conradian, papers, or panels,
on the novel are especially welcome. Proposals, due on 20 April,
should be sent to Tim Middleton conrad2012@bathspa.ac.uk
See the Annual Conference page for further
details and about practicalities including information about travel
and accommodations.
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Ford Madox Ford Conference: September
2012
The Ford Madox Ford Society announces a call
for papers for "'Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: Modernism
and the First World War," an international conference to be
held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London,
27-29 September 2012.
The conference will celebrate Ford's First World War Modernist
masterpiece, with the first annotated critical editions of the four
novels that make up Parade's End now available from Carcanet
Press and a five-part television adaptation currently in production,
scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard.
For detailed information about the Call for Papers and registration
for the conference, visit the Ford
Conference Website.
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MLA Annual Convention
2013
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is sponsoring
two sessions at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association
(MLA), to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 2013.
The Society will sponsor two panels. Persons
presenting papers must be members of the MLA.
Comparative Territories. Topics
might include overlapping territories, inner / outer voyages, domesticity
and politics, gender and Modernism. Comparative papers discussing
critically neglected texts will be given priority. 250-500 word
abstracts by 10 March 2012 to Debra Romanick Baldwin dbaldwin@udallas.edu
and Kathryn L. Simpsonsimpsokl@adf.bham.ac.uk
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Conrad’s Chance 100 Years Later. Exploration
or reassessment of any aspect of this novel, Conrad's first blockbuster
success, including history, narrative, economics, gender, ethics,
or comparative study. 250-500 word abstracts by 10 March 2012 to
Debra Romanick Baldwin dbaldwin@udallas.edu.
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