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 [...]

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, [...]

CFP: American Threads: Forms and Reform, North and South

Call for Contributions: American Threads: Forms and Reform, North and South, Université Montpellier III (EA 741), France
Thematic and formal connections, or “threads”, run through American literature. Some have been acknowledged by the writers themselves, others have been identified by academia. The aim of this conference is to show that the link between a nineteenth-century novelist, [...]