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| Image by Sadie Cahoon, Northern Vista Creative |
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REBECCA WEST IN LONDON |
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The Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Rebecca West Society (New York)
18th & 19th September 2009, at the Institute of English Studies, University of London
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Supported by the Rebecca West Society and the University of Kent (UK) |
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This first UK conference devoted to the author continues the debate established at three previous International West Society conferences, this time in the city where West was born, where she worked at its cultural centre, and which inspired Harriet Hume (1929). |
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Victoria Glendinning
Melissa Benn
Catherine Clay
Debra Rae Cohen
Galina Dubova
Francesca Frigerio
Heather Goggans
Vesna Goldsworthy
Andrew Harrison
Caroline Zoe Krzakowski
Joanna Labon
Kathryn Laing
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Elizabeth Maslen
Jane Marcus
Jan Montefiore
Julian Moore
Ann Norton
April Pelt
Carl Rollyson
Bernard Schweizer
Bonnie Kime Scott
Margaret Stetz
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Nicholas Turner |
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TO INCLUDE: |
• Major biographers and critics
• A forum for international scholars with an interest in Rebecca West
• Guests including West’s colleagues, friends and family
• Interdisciplinarity: West and radio, film, journalism, and performance
• European perspectives from Italy, Germany, Russia and Belgrade
• Historical evaluations of West’s literary community including Max Beerbohm, Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, Time & Tide, Stanislav Vinaver and Virginia Woolf
• Postgraduate papers: welcoming a new generation of West critics
• Issues of guilt, faith, politics, sovereignty and fiction
•West’s challenge to our notions of Modernism and Feminism
• New reports from the archives
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| CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL PROGRAMME |
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| Timings: 10.00am-6.00pm Friday; 10.00am-5.00pm Saturday |
| Venue: Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU |
| Keynote Speaker: 6.00pm Friday 18 September: Victoria Glendinning, "Remembering Rebecca West: the Craft of Biography" (A John Coffin Memorial Trust Public Lecture and Reception) |
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| Registration Fees: |
£70 Standard
£50
IES members and speakers
£40 Students and unwaged |
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| CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM IN word.doc FORMAT |
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| Two West Society post-graduate student awards are offered: CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. |
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| Enquiries and Registration: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk |
