[New-Poetry] Papers: Melville and Conrad

[James Cervantes]

On 7/6/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>

> > Sent: Pawel Jedrzejko (Office) [mailto:jedrzej at us.edu.pl]
> >< From: dinsdag 27 juni 2006 2:10
>
> Dear Friends
>
> We are absolutely delighted that Hearts of Darkness: Melville and Conrad in
> the Space of World Culture Conference has attracted eminent scholars,
> younger and more senior, from around the world:  Japan, Italy, Lithuania,
> Switzerland, New Zealand, South Africa, Jerusalem, France, Canada, Spain,
> Turkey, Italy, the U.K., Poland, and the U.S.  The imaginative paper
> proposals, many of which deal with both Melville and Conrad, are bound to
> create some fascinating discussion in Szczecin and open up new areas of
> scholarship in the coming years.  We received 60 excellent proposals by the
> 25 June deadline.
>
 > We do, however, have the capacity to have a larger conference, and are
> therefore extending the deadline for paper proposals until 25 July.
> Colleagues, who might still wish to submit their proposals are welcome to do
> so via our conference registration system at http://www.melville.us.edu.pl
>
> Would you please share this extension with two or three of your colleagues
> who might be interested in the conference but didn't get a paper proposal in
> on time?  In the next couple of weeks conference co-chair Pawel Jedrzejko
> will meet with British Conradians and co-chair Milton Reigelman will meet
> with the owners of the most beautiful tall ship in the world, the Dar
> Mlodziezy, the site of the opening events.  We plan to beat our deadline for
> approving papers by five weeks, and notify registrants by 15 August.
>
> Pawel and Milton
> Conference Co-Chairs
> http://www.melville.us.edu.pl

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