CFP: Writing About Cities (3/31/05; ALSC, 11/5/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS

For The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics'

Eleventh Annual Conference

Hotel Marlowe

Cambridge, Massachusetts

November 4-6, 2005

SEMINARS

The 2005 Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
(ALSC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts will feature a series of seminars
designed to increase participation of younger scholars in the conference.
Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as the
Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies Association,
these three seminars will each be led by a distinguished member of the ALSC.
The conference will be held from Friday, November 4 through Sunday, November
6, 2005, at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The seminars will
take place on Saturday, November 5, 2005.

Each seminar will have fifteen (15) guaranteed places, and each person
accepted to a seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the
conference and will be listed in the program for the conference.
Participants in the seminar will write very brief position papers (2-4
pages, double-spaced), which they will circulate among themselves and read
prior to the conference. The listing of the titles of these papers in the
conference program should help the participants in their efforts to obtain
funding to the conference from their home colleges and universities.
Graduate students and junior faculty are especially encouraged to apply for
these seminars, but senior scholars are eligible as well. Modest travel
stipends will be available to a limited number of participants with special
consideration given to ALSC members in good standing. These stipends will be
awarded based upon need. Two documents are required to demonstrate
sufficient need: (1) official notice (printed on institutional letterhead)
that the award applicant's home institution has denied his or her request
for funding to attend the ALSC Conference, and (2) a brief personal
statement of need (a single paragraph will do). All stipend applications are
vetted by the ALSC Conference Committee.

We hope that senior scholars will spread the word about these opportunities,
and encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply. The
three seminars will run concurrently; those formally admitted to each
seminar will participate in the actual discussion, but anyone at the
conference will be welcome to attend one of the seminars as an auditor
provided there is sufficient room. For details on the topics of the seminars
and application procedures, please see below. All applications and abstracts
for the seminars are due on March 31, 2005.

Seminar Three: Writing About Cities

Chair: Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University).

This seminar invites papers, two to four pages (double-spaced), on any
feature of city life that has kindled the imagination of writers and their
powers of empathy and observation, or on specimens of urban literature,
including more recent ones, that should prove to be of timely and enduring
value. Send abstracts or proposals of about half a page (hard copy please)
to Professor Phillip Lopate of Hofstra University at his home address: 402
Sackett Street, Brooklyn NY 11231. Hard copies only please.

Michael Gouin-Hart

Executive Director

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)

650 Beacon Street, Suite 510

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Phone: 617-358-1990 / Fax: 617-358-1995

Email: alsc_at_bu.edu / Internet: www.bu.edu/literary

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