[New-Poetry] Papers: Melville and Conrad

[Anny Ballardini]

No, no, I swear it's true, just check the site. Picture of ship and so on.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views" 
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Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Papers: Melville and Conrad


> 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
>
> This is a hoax, right?
>
> -- Jim
>
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