Stowe and Critical Memory at MLA 2011. On the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, this session reassesses the critical work that has made Uncle Tom's Cabin a touchstone text and Stowe a central figure in American literature for the last three decades. 1-2 page abstract and cv to Anna Brickhouse (acb2hf@virginia.edu) by March 1.

Call for Papers: ALA 2010. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites papers on the following topics for the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010. 1. “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Visual Culture.” Papers can address illustrations of Stowe’s work in the 19th century and later, evocation of visual experience in her writing, [...]

The Stowe Society has invited other women’s author societies to participate in a second Transatlantic Women conference to be held in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 2012 or 2013.  The first conference, Transatlantic Women:  Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, in July 2008, was co-sponsored with the Catharine Maria Sedgwick [...]

In June 2011, the Stowe Society will be hosting a conference at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to celebrate Stowe’s bicentennial. The conference will feature one or more keynote speakers, concurrent sessions that examine not only Stowe’s literary works and political activity, but also her literary influence throughout the nineteenth century and the role of [...]