Center for The Novel and AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Center for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK
Plenary speakers
* Terry Castle, professor of English, Stanford University, US (Brunette Coleman and the Lesbianism of Philip Larkin)
* Ian Duncan, professor of English literature and Chair of English Department, University of California, Berkeley, US (The Great Book of Nature)
* Jonathan Lamb, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, US (Persons, Fancies and the Drift of Fiction)
Call for papers
The Novel and Its Borders will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Panel topics may include the following:
* The novel and real/imagined communities
* Memory, history, narrative time
* Libraries, archives, publishers, markets
* Transport, travel, translations
* Borders of the mind, territories of the body
* Technology, science and the novel
* Novel and old/new media
* Realism and its limits
* Genealogies and genres
Conference fee
* ￡85 ($168) for waged (Covers admission to conference, coffee and biscuits throughout, and first night wine reception.)
* ￡70 ($139) for un-waged (e.g. students or retirees. Covers admission to conference, coffee and biscuits throughout, and first night wine reception.)
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)1224-272671
E-mail: novel.conference@abdn.ac.uk
For more information, go to http://www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference
