Abstracts still being
accepted for this major 4-day international conference on KM in Wellington, at
which the new, two volume, fully annotated edition of KM’s fiction will be
launched in NZ. See details below.
Katherine
Mansfield:
Masked and
Unmasked
Call for Conference Papers
Call for Conference Papers
February
8-11, 2013
Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand
‘Don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask,’ wrote Mansfield in a letter to John Middleton Murry in July 1917
‘Don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask,’ wrote Mansfield in a letter to John Middleton Murry in July 1917
Victoria University
welcomes Katherine Mansfield scholars to Wellington in 2013 to share and
discuss recent developments in Mansfield scholarship, in the year of the 90th
anniversary of her death. To coincide with the conference, it is
anticipated that a new Katherine Mansfield sculpture, "Woman of
Words," by Virginia King, will stand newly mounted in Lambton Quay, and
the landmark publication of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield,
edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, will be launched by Edinburgh
University Press. This collection includes new fragments and variants,
and other rarely published, previously uncollected stories.
Keynote speakers include
Angela Smith and Sydney Janet Kaplan
Gerri Kimber and Vincent
O'Sullivan will introduce and
discuss the new edition of
the stories
The panel welcomes a
wide range of approaches to the conference theme, from the biographical to the
stylistic to the performative. Topics might include, but are
certainly not limited to:
real and fictional
characters
Modernism and the mask
Mansfield's theatre
sketches and/or performance poetry
editing and/or
translating Mansfield's work
versions, retellings,
imitations
impersonation and
performance
biography and identity
Modernism and the
primitive
the terrible and the
hidden
the Modernist short
story
Please
e-mail 250-400 word abstracts in body of email to Anna Jackson (anna.jackson@vuw.ac.nz) and Harry
Ricketts (harry.ricketts@vuw.ac.nz).
We also welcome suggestions for three-person panels.
Please include with your
proposal the following information: name and affiliation, email address, postal
address, telephone number
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