Conferences
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 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, [...]
2nd Transatlantic Women Conference
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 [...]
SSAWW Box Lunch
[ October 24, 2009; 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm. ] At the SSAWW conference in Philadelphia the Stowe Society, Margaret Fuller Society, and the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society will sponsor a box lunch on Saturday, 24 October, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in the Bromley/Claypool Room. The informal agenda will include discussion of collaborative activities among the three societies (and others), past and future. Stowe’s [...]
Bowdoin Conference
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 [...]
Upcoming SSAWW Panel
[ October 23, 2009; 4:00 pm to 5:15 pm. ] Beth Lueck proposed and will participate with Brigitte Bailey and Lucinda Damon-Bach on Conference Planning panel at the upcoming SSAWW Conference.
