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Past Conference Topics & Papers
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MLA
January 5-8, 2012, in Seattle
Vice-President/Program Chair Holly Laird (
holly-laird@utulsa.edu
) has submitted the program for our session at MLA:
50 years after the Lady
Chatterley Trial: Lawrence and
Censorship/Pornography/Obscenity
Revisiting issues of censorship and obscenity.
More information will be posted as it becomes
available.
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12th International Lawrence Conference
Wed., June 29 –Sunday, July 3, 2011
Sydney, Australia
D. H. Lawrence: Colonial, Modernist
and Postcolonial Perspectives
When Lawrence arrived in Sydney in 1922, two
decades after Federation, Australia was
consciously redefining its relation to its
colonial past and imagining new nationalist
futures, as Lawrence recognized in
Kangaroo.
Conference organizers invited papers in all
genres of Lawrence's writing, biography, or
experience of Australia. The program
included panels exploring Lawrence's
literary responses to music and as well as
his influence on composers, musicians,
painters, filmmakers, and other artists in
Australia and elsewhere.
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Call
for Papers--Joyce & Lawrence
Call for Papers for an edited essay
collection addressing areas of congruence between James
Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. The collection will look beyond
the more traditionally observed differences between these
two modernist writers, and will draw new parallels between
their works, aesthetics, and lives. Contributors should
submit a full-length text (20-25 pp) with a CV to (
joyce.and.d.h.lawrence@gmail.com ) by Wednesday, June 1,
2011. Proposals should be new work and previously
unpublished. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
• Treatments of religion
• Exile and outcast
• Sexuality
• Genre
• Italian influences
• Colonial experience
• Homosexuals and homosexuality
• Portrayal and treatment of women
• Portrayal of education institutions
• Depiction of masculine Identity and scripts
• Publication in literary magazines
• Treatments of the politics of Empire
• Censorship & obscenity trials
• On reading each other
• Autobiography
• The fringes of taboo
• The Everyman
• Animal imagery
• Sterility
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MLA
CONFERENCE
Los Angeles, CA (Jan. 6-9, 2011)
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Lawrence Session: “Queering
Lawrence,” featuring speakers Merrill Cole
(Western Illinois Univ.), Bret Keeling
(Northeastern Univ.), and Jen Mitchell
(Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York).
Business Meeting Luncheon: Held
at Rock'N Fish L.A. Live:
http://www.rocknfishlalive.com/
The Annual
Lawrence Dinner will be held at an
Italian restaurant within walking distance
of all MLA convention hotels:
Maria's Downtown Los Angeles
http://mariasdowntownla.com
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MLA
CONFERENCE
Philadelphia (Dec.
27-30, 2009)
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Panel One:
Lawrence's Short Stories
Description: any story or
combination of stories, and any
approach, including but not limited to
biographical, textual,
deconstructionist, feminist, Marxist,
eco-critical, linguistic, new
historicist, or gender studies.
Panel Two:
Lawrence's Circle
Description: any person, event,
relationship, Rananim-like
community, social network, or
cultural movement that was important
to the Lawrences.
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MLA
CONFERENCE
San
Francisco
2008
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Session
1: Masculinities in Lawrence
Description:
Models of masculinity implicit or
explicit in Lawrence's work. Considerations
of tensions and evolution in the models are
encouraged.
Session
2: D. H. Lawrence and Violence
Description:
Topics may include physical, emotional,
verbal, spiritual, political, or other
violence and the interplay among them.
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MLA
CONFERENCE
Chicago
2007
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D. H. Lawrence Sessions
1. Lawrence and Film:
"French Kiss: Lady Chatterley by
Pascale Ferran (2005)" by Corinne Francois-Deneve
"Lawrence's 'Water-Party' and Ken Russell's:
The Power of Film Adaptation" by Earl Ingersoll
"Lost Girls, Lost Boys, and Movie Stars:
Reconsidering Lawrence on Film" by Nancy Paxton
2. Fascism, Eugenics, and DHL:
"Fascism, the
Female Body, and Race in D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo" by
Jorgette Mauzerall
"'White men had had
a soul, and lost it': Blood and Power in
the Plumed Serpent" by Theresa Mae
Thompson
"Lawrence,
Eugenics, and the Historical Twister" by
Pradyumna Chauhan
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