Rebecca West in London
Fourth International Rebecca
West Society Conference
September 18-19, 2009
Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London University, London WC1
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Victoria Glendinning
Melissa Benn
Catherine Clay
Debra Rae Cohen
Galina Dubova
Francesca Frigerio
Heather Goggans
Vesna Goldsworthy
Andrew Harrison
Caroline Zoe Krzakowski
Joanna Labon
Kathryn Laing |
Elizabeth Maslen
Jane Marcus
Jan Montefiore
Julian Moore
Ann Norton
April Pelt
Carl Rollyson
Bernard Schweizer
Bonnie Kime Scott
Margaret Stetz
Lindsey Stonebridge
Nicholas Turner |
Keynote – Friday, 18 September at 6 p.m.
“Remembering Rebecca West: The Craft of Biography”
by Victoria Glendinning
a John Coffin Trust Memorial Public Lecture & Reception
Conference – Friday, 18 and Saturday, 19 September, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Major biographers and critics
- A forum for international scholars with an interest in Rebecca West
- Guests including West’s colleagues, friends and family
- Interdisciplinarity: West and radio, film, journalism, and performance
- European perspectives from Italy, Germany, Russia and Belgrade
- Historical evaluations of West’s literary community including Max Beerbohm,
- Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, Time & Tide, Stanislav Vinaver and Virginia Woolf
- Postgraduate papers: welcoming a new generation of West critics
- Issues of guilt, faith, politics, sovereignty and fiction
- West’s challenge to our notions of Modernism and Feminism
- New reports from the archives
Registration for two days £70/IES members and speakers £50/student or unwaged £40
All are welcome. Contact jon.millington@ies.sas.ac.uk
Conferences are held bi-annually in early September. The
society will sponsor special sessions at the MLA conference when
possible.
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