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Dear italian-studies colleagues,
I am pleased to forward this on behalf of Nena Bierbaum, of Flinders
University, Adelaide.
Best wishes, George Ferzoco
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George FERZOCO
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Dear Colleagues,
Once again Flinders Humanities Research Centre, Flinders University
will be hosting a conference at Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, South
Australia. The Conference will be held in the Seafront Hotel from
Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 December 2009. The conference theme is:
"The Shadow of the Precursor"
Many writers are affected by an anxious and ambiguous relationship
with precursor writers. The role that influence and intertextuality
plays in literary production invites interrogation, and this
conference hopes to explore the range of conscious and unconscious
influences informing relations between writers and their precursors.
We call for papers that revolve around intertextual influence,
ranging across the spectrum from conscious imitation and intentional
allusion to Julia Kristeva's idea of intertextuality. Do all texts
contain references to and even quotations from other texts? Do such
references help shape how we read? Papers on the long shadows cast by
the likes of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Sir Walter Scott, Jack
Kerouac and Bob Dylan, as well as papers on other writers, dramatists
and filmmakers and their relationships with precursors, are encouraged.
We look forward to receiving your expressions of interest by 31
January and a 300-word abstract by 28 February and meeting you on
Kangaroo Island in December 2009.
Given our experience of organising seven highly successful
international/national conferences in the past eight years (Home and
Away 8-10 November 2000; Encounters 2001 9-12 December 2001;
Diasporas 8-11 December 2002; Writing London 8-10 December 2003;
Journeying and Journalling 6-8 December 2004; Something Rich and
Strange 12-14 December 2005, all held in Kangaroo Island, and Moving
Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration,
connection, heritage and cultural memory 3-6 December 2007 at
Flinders University), we can confidently predict that our conference
will attract about 60 participants, including a significant number of
postgraduate students from Flinders and elsewhere.
We also plan to referee, select and edit papers for book publication
(as is our custom). We anticipate that up to about 20% of the
presented papers will be by Flinders staff and higher degree
students. Incidentally, the past six conferences have resulted in six
books: Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond
(Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2002, pp. 221), The Regenerative Spirit
Volume 1: Polarities of Home and Away, Encounters and Diasporas, in
Post Colonial Literatures (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2004, pp. 220),
The Regenerative Spirit Volume 2: (Un)settling, (Dis)locations,
(Post-)colonial, (Re)Presentations Australian Post-Colonial
Reflections (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2004, pp.304), London was Full
of Rooms (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2006, pp. 268), Something Rich and
Strange (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, IN Press), Journeying and
Journalling (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, IN Press), as well as various
individual publications currently being edited from the Moving
Cultures conference.
As soon as we can we will upload information about the conference,
registration form, hotel and other accommodation, Sealink bookings,
conference events, side trips etc. at http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/
Kind regards,
Shadow of the Precursor Conference Committee
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