Dear all,
The University of Kent (UK) will be hosting a two-day conference on Kipling. Please find below the call for papers, with a due date deadline of 28 March 2007. I'd be grateful if you could forward this to anybody who might be interested.
Call for papers
KIPLING
CONFERENCE 2007
September 7- 8,
Keynote Speakers
Christopher
Hitchens
Benita
Parry
It is now 100 years since Rudyard
Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907, “in consideration of the power of
observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent
for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author”. The
Kipling and crime
/ Kipling and journalism / Nation and Empire /The uncanny and
the gothic / Kipling and knowledge
Kipling and
Travel / Crossing cultures / trans-nationalism /Kipling and
psychoanalysis /The Jungle Books / Kipling and War
Kipling and
modernity / Kipling and film / Kipling as poet /Kipling’s
literary descendants
Send your proposals of 150-300 words
for 20 minute papers to [log in to unmask] by March 28. Please
enter “Kipling Conference 2007” in your email subject field.
Conference Organizers: Dr
Jan Montefiore and Dr Kaori Nagai
Conference web-page: http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/kipling.html