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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: [log in to unmask] Call for Papers CULTURE AND THE LITERARY PRIZE Oxford Brookes University, UK 4th – 5th October 2003 Speakers include: James English (University of Pennsylvania) John Frow (University of Edinburgh) Martyn Goff (Administrator of the Man Booker Prize) Mary Jay (African Books Collective) Hermione Lee (University of Oxford) Conference Organisers: Daniel Lea (Department of English) and Claire Squires (Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), Oxford Brookes University. Since its inception in 1969, the Booker Prize for Fiction has been at the forefront of the promotion and reception of literary fiction in the UK, the Commonwealth and beyond. This major international conference will interrogate the place of the literary prize in contemporary culture and coincides with the launch of the Man Booker Prize archive at Oxford Brookes University. Papers will explore the production, marketing and consumption of contemporary literature and will examine the dynamics of the literary prize in relation to the codification of cultural value, the formation of cosmopolitan reading communities and the construction of national and trans-national identities. Whilst it is anticipated that the Booker Prize will be a major focus of critical attention, the conference will address prize culture in all its manifestations, both in the UK and elsewhere. Papers are invited on themes including: the impact of literary prizes on the marketing, promotion and sales of contemporary writing; the construction of canons and the formation of literary identities; literary prizes and cultures of elitism; the place of the literary prize in colonial/postcolonial debates; literary prizes and nationality; literary prizes and the media; literary prizes and the formation of reading communities; literary prize judges and judging; literary prizes and the curriculum; literary prizes and literary development projects. Please send an abstract (c.250 words) and a brief biographical note by 30 May 2003, or enquiries for further information, to Laura Price, Conference Administrator, Publishing Department, Oxford Brookes University, The Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus, Headington Hill, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK, or by email to [log in to unmask]