CFP: Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200

Harriet Beecher Stowe at 200
Home, Nation, and Place in the 21st Century

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
22-25 June 2011
Sponsored by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
On the bicentennial of her birth, the Stowe Society announces a conference celebrating Harriet Beecher Stowe—her life and works—at Bowdoin College, where she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Conference organizers welcome participation from [...]

CFP (Update) – Harriet Beecher Stowe Bicentennial Essay Collection

Essays are still needed for the proposed collection of essays commemorating the bicentennial of Stowe’s birth in 2011. Essays that deal with the following works are especially needed: Pearl of Orr’s Island, Agnes of Sorrento, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Dred.
Since these essays will take a cultural studies approach, topics such as the following are [...]

Update on Transatlantic Women 2

Dear Transatlantic Travelers,
I was glad to hear at the SSAWW conference that so many of you are interested in a second Transatlantic Women conference abroad. Although we are in the early planning stages yet, I want to tell you what we’re considering. There are three of us involved in planning the conference: [...]

Stowe Center to Inaugurate Stowe Prize

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center will inaugurate the Stowe Prize in 2011, a landmark initiative for the Bicentennial celebration of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth.
The Stowe Prize will be a $10,000 biennial award to an individual from the United States whose written work embodies the tradition and impact of Stowe’s most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, [...]

CFP – Harriet Beecher Stowe Bicentennial Essay Collection

Initial interest has been expressed for an essay collection to commemorate the bicentennial of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth in 2011. Essays that provide critical readings of her work; that supply neglected biographical considerations, or that examine past criticism or suggest potential scholarly treatment are needed. Essays should also comment on her current popular or academic [...]

Stowe Panel at MLA 2011

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.

ALA 2010 CFP: Submissions Needed!

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, [...]

New Edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Broadview Press announces a new edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited by Christopher G. Diller, that includes Stowe’s European prefaces to the novel and a diverse range of primary materials.

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center to Receive Federal Funding

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has received news from the offices of Congressman John B. Parson and Senators Christopher J. Dodd and Joseph I. Lieberman that it will receive funding in a bill approved by both houses under the Interior Appropriations Act to support the Center’s preservation initiative.

Stowe on the New York Times

Stowe Society member Susan Belasco (University of Nebraska—Lincoln) recently completed a project on Stowe for Times Topics, a part of the New York Times online. She was even able to include a link to the Stowe Society in the sidebar for NYT readers. Go check it out.