Conferences

Third International Rebecca West Society Conference
September 28-30, 2007
Mercantile Library, 47th Street, New York City

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Conference Shedule

Friday, September 28, 2007
3:00-3:30 Registration
3:30-4:15 Rebecca West Society Business Meeting
4:30-4:45 Opening Remarks: Carl Rollyson
4:45-6:00 West and Biography:
Carl Rollyson, Susan Erickson, J.J. Labon
6:00-7:00 Wine and Hors D’Oeuvres
7:00-9:00 Rebecca West in Person. Bill Moyers Interview, BBC program, Harriet Hume selections read by West

Saturday, September 29, 2007
9:00-9:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:30-10:45 Panel 1: West, Modernism, and Culture: Laura Cowan, Rosanne Kennedy, Thaine Stearns
11:00-12:00 Panel 2: West and Politics: Alexis Blane, Galina Dubova
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Roundtable:The Return of the Soldier, genesis of a critical edition. Bernard Schweizer moderator, with graduate students Charles Thorne, Jamie Anderson, Michael Deserio, and Nell Stewart
2:00-3:00 Keynote address:Francine Prose
Introduction:Dennis Drabelle
3:00-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-4:45 Panel 3:West and Feminism:
Jane Marcus, E. Brookes Little
5:00-6:00 Panel 4: West’s Journalism:
Will Gravely, Loretta Stec

6:00-6:45

Wine and Hors D’Oeuvres
6:45-8:00 “Camp West”: Helen Atkinson, Debra Rae Cohen, Ann Norton, Bernard Schweizer. Our July 2007 experience reading in the Rebecca West Collection at the University of Tulsa.

Sunday, September 30
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:45 Panel 5: Editing and Translating West: Robert Planos, Caroline Krzakowski, Francesca Frigerio
11:00-12:00 Panel 6: West and Her Contemporaries:
Peter Christensen, Margaret Stetz
12:00-12:30 Brainstorming: Where does the West society go now?

Conferences are held bi-annually in early September. The society will sponsor special sessions at the MLA conference when possible.


 

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