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Poe and Hawthorne Conference--Kyoto, Japan
Deadline for submissions: August 1, 2017
Name of organization: Sandy Hughes, Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and Poe Studies Association
Contact email: sandy.hughes@wku.edu
Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker will be Michael J. Colacurcio, and our plenary speaker will be Takayuki Tatsumi. Some travel grants will be available. Contact Sandra Hughes at hawthornepoekyoto@gmail.com for details.
All topics related to these two authors, together or separately, are welcome. Please send 250-word proposals to Philip Edward Phillips, Program Committee Chair, at Philip.Phillips@mtsu.edu by August 1, 2017. Any requests for A/V equipment must accompany the proposal.
Session proposals of up to 1,000 words, also due by August 1, 2017, should include organizer and speaker names and affiliations, as well as paper titles and abstracts. Slots for papers will be twenty minutes apiece.
Possible topics include:
Poe/Hawthorne and Asia
Poe/Hawthorne and Japan
The (Mutual) Influence of Poe and Hawthorne
Poe and/or Hawthorne, reception and reputation
Teaching Poe and/or Hawthorne
Interpreting Poe and/or Hawthorne
Poe, Hawthorne, and the visual or performing arts
Poe and/or Hawthorne and science (or pseudo-science)
The Gothic in Poe and/or Hawthorne
Allegory in Poe and/or Hawthorne
Poe and/or Hawthorne at home and/or abroad
Biographies of Poe and/or Hawthorne
Poe and/or Hawthorne and the Digital Humanities
Literary, philosophical, scientific, or cultural influences on Poe or Hawthorne
Literary influence of Poe and/or Hawthorne
Poe, Hawthorne, and literary theory
Poe, Hawthorne, and the supernatural
Poe and/or Hawthorne and race, class, gender, or sexuality
Poe and/or Hawthorne and politics
Poe and/or Hawthorne and transatlantic, transpacific, or global studies
Poe and/or Hawthorne, aesthetics and genre
Poe and/or Hawthorne in cinema, or other popular media (graphic novels, television, video games, etc.)
Poe and/or Hawthorne in translation
Poe and/or Hawthorne and language
All those whose proposals are accepted for the conference must become members of one of the four sponsoring organizations to present.