A joint conference to be hosted by the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and La Société Conradienne Française will be held on 14-17 September 2010 at the Université de Versailles-St-Quentin and in central Paris at the Bibliothèque Polonaise on the Ile-de-la-Cité.

The Booking Form and tentative Conference Programme can now be accessed on the Annual Conference page of this website. See that page for all other details about the conference, including suggestions about accommodation and travel in Paris.

Plaque at Ivy Walls, Stanford-le-Hope

On Sunday, 5 September 2010, members of the Society will participate with members of the local community and the Lady Mayoress of Thurrock in the unveiling of a plaque commemorating Conrad's residence at Ivy Walls Farm in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex.

A guided walk of the town and of Victoria Road where the Conrads lived prior to moving to Ivy Walls may be part of the event, which will include luncheon and meeting with local history buffs. Meeting time is 10.30 a.m. at The Crooked Billet Public House, Rainbows End, in Billet Lane.

Anyone wishing to attend should contact John Lester: johnstuartlester@hotmail.co.uk

Greenwich Degree Zero (2005-06)

Members of the Society may be interested in the exhibition from 24 July to 10 October 2010 at the Longside Gallery of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield of Greenwich Degree Zero. This installation, produced by novelist Tom McCarthy and artist Rod Dickinson, is based on Martial Bourdin’s attempt to blow up the Royal Observatory, an action Conrad draws upon for The Secret Agent. The work is displayed as one of the 2010 acquisitions by the Arts Council Collection.

Using a combination of faked contemporary film and reworked contemporary journalistic and archival forensic sources, the artists re-imagine the attempt as a successful attack, producing a disturbing visual impact and calling questions of fiction and evidence into question.

Calls for Papers

The Conradian: Special Issue on Under Western Eyes

To commemorate the centenary of the publication of Under Western Eyes, the Editors and Editorial Board of The Conradian invite essays to be published in the journal's Autumn 2011 issue. Deadline for submission is 30 April 2011.

Special issues of the journal are published as monographs by Rodopi of Amsterdam. This volume will be edited by Jeremy Hawthorn, Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape.

Forthcoming Conferences

Annual Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, December 2010

The traditional two sessions on Conrad, sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, will be held at the annual meeting of the MLA in December. .Membership in the MLA is required to attend sessions and to present papers.

Conrad's Under Western Eyes: The call for papers is closed. For enquiries, contact Lissa Schneider elizabeth.schneider-rebozo@uwrf.edu

Conrad's Polish Footprints, Lublin, July 2011

An international conference on Conrad, sponsored by the Centre for Conrad Studies, Department of English at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, to be held 12–16 July 2011 in Poland, followed by an optional study tour, 16-22 July, of the Lublin region, Warsaw, Cracow, and Zakopane. Call for Papers.

For enquiries, contact Prof. Dr Hab. Wieslaw Krajkawieslaw.krajka@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl

Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism, and (Post)colonialism , University of Cape Town, December 2011

An international conference on Conrad to be held 6–10 December 2011 in South Africa at the University of Cape Town is in the planning stages. A Call for Papers and further details will be announced in due course and announced on this website.