Extended Call for Papers: Fifteenth International Robert Graves Conference (deadline 22 April)
Robert Graves and Correspondences
La Caixa, Palma, Mallorca
12-16 July 2022
Organised by the Robert Graves Society with the Fundació Robert Graves
Keynote speakers include Fran Brearton, Patrick McGuinness and Jean Moorcroft Wilson. With poetry readings to include Ruth Fainlight and Sean O'Brien
 Plans are becoming advanced for the 15th International Robert Graves Society Conference, 12th - 16th July 2022. The theme this year will be:
'Robert Graves and Correspondences'
The conference will take place at the former Gran Hotel, Palma de Mallorca, where Graves and Riding stayed on their arrival in Palma in 1929, and at Deià, where they lived until 1936. Graves returned to Mallorca in 1946 with Beryl Pritchard Graves and their family and lived in Deià until his death in 1985.
 The timings of the conference are Tuesday, 12th July 2022, 5.00 pm (approx) – Saturday, 16th July 2022, 2:00 pm (approx).
More details of the event and the present CFP are published at https://www.robertgraves.org/conference-2022/
where you will also find a link to Registration and accommodation suggestions.
Submit your paper proposal and/or book your place at Robert Graves 2022 now by contacting [log in to unmask] (CFP, paper proposals, academic programme) or [log in to unmask] (hotels, travel, administrative and financial details) by 22 April

   Organised by the Robert Graves Society   
    
The Robert Graves Society is pleased to announce that the Fifteenth International Robert Graves Conference will be held in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 12-16 July 2022. The theme of the conference will be ‘Robert Graves and Correspondences’. The conference will explore correspondences in the broadest possible sense, including, but not limited to: communication between people, translation, adaptation, and the relationship between source text and variations. And if we think more broadly about correspondences as ‘the answering of things to each other’, then what other relationships, between artists, historical periods, ideas, come into play?   
  
Correspondences also relate to Graves’s own extensive letter writing, and to the role of correspondence in literary and cultural studies more generally. How do we research correspondence, identify, curate, and access it? What practical and ethical challenges does it give us?  Best guesses estimate Graves received c. 14,000 letters over his long writing life, from around 1916 to 1975. As Graves was a published poet from the age of 20, many people kept his letters. We know the whereabouts of c. 8,500 letters written by Graves; most of these are still unpublished, and there will be many more not yet identified. He is arguably from the last golden age of letter writing, with correspondents including Agatha Christie, Winston Churchill, e e cummings, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ava Gardner, Martha Gelhorn, Alec Guinness, T. E. Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, Laura Riding, and Gertrude Stein.  Please also see: https://robertgravesletters.org/ 
    
Robert Graves conferences traditionally embrace the creative in addition to the critical, and the conference will also host musical and literary events to be announced in due course, along with keynote speakers. There will also be a daytrip to Deià and to La Casa de Robert Graves: https://www.lacasaderobertgraves.org/en/ 
  
CALL FOR PAPERS   
 Proposals are invited for papers (20 minutes) on relevant topics relating to Robert Graves and/or his contemporaries. These could include but are not limited to:   
    
Any aspect of correspondence broadly defined  
Relations and friendships, textual and otherwise, between twentieth-century writers and artists  
How literary texts correspond with each other  
Texts and writers in dialogue  
Any aspect of letters to and from Robert Graves   
Journalism and the idea of the correspondent  
Poetry and journalism  
Poetry and reportage  
Correspondence as a way of thinking about adaptation and collaboration  
Curating correspondence   
Digitising correspondence   
Connecting correspondence   
Correspondence: research and criticism   
Correspondence and biography   
Correspondence in exile 
War-time correspondence 
Verse Letters 


Critical responses to recent works on Graves, papers on research in progress, on recently discovered archival material of interest to Graves scholars, on digital collections or on exhibitions of Graves’s work, and on the comparative European engagements of Graves’s contemporaries, are also welcome.


Please send an abstract (max. 250 words) by 22 April 2022 to the conference organiser and President of the Robert Graves Society:  
  
Dr Charles Mundye, FEA 
Head of the Department of Humanities
College of Social Sciences and Arts 
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Sheffield S1 1WB 

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President, Robert Graves Society
http://www.robertgraves.org 

Fellow, English Association
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association 
  
 PARTICIPANTS 
The conference is open to all. It will be of interest to academics, teachers, research students, and anyone else who is interested in the life and writings of Robert Graves and his circle. The series of Robert Graves conferences have built up a reputation for their scholarly excellence and their friendly dialogue among participants from a wide variety of backgrounds, both lay and academic, and the Graves family itself.

To register an interest in attending the conference as a non-speaker, please e-mail the Robert Graves Society Treasurer and Secretary Patrick Villa: [log in to unmask] 

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