13th International D. H. Lawrence Conference

 Gargnano, Italy, June 23-27, 2014

 D.H. Lawrence:  New Life, New Utterance, New Perspectives

Villa Igea, south of Gargnano in the village of Villa, Lago di Garda. Sketch by Molly Wallace, 1990

For more information, please visit the new Website for the 13th International D.H. Lawrence Conference in Gargnano, Italy.  Pages will be added as information becomes available, so check back often.

We are delighted to announce the first Call for Papers for the 13^th International D. H. Lawrence Conference and cordially invite scholars from around the world to submit proposals to share their original research and “new perspectives” on Lawrence and Lawrence-related subjects.  

 CALL  FOR  PAPERS
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2013
To: Academic Program Director, Jill Franks (franksj@apsu.edu)

Send your 250- word abstract and title on any topic regarding Lawrence's works,  life, friends and milieu, though conference-themed papers are especially welcome.  Papers should last for no longer than twenty minutes and  please note that abstracts of accepted papers will be published in the conference program.  The International Program Committee will review all submissions in October and  November 2013 and acceptances (or other feedback) will be issued by early December 2013.  Please send a copy to both email addresses listed above. 

 Themes: 

 The conference title is intentionally broad so as to encourage papers addressing  not only the general creative stimulus to Lawrence of his first experience of Europe, and in particular of his period in Gargnano with Frieda,  but also the newness of Lawrence scholarship that utilizes current theory and interdisciplinary directions. Additionally, we  especially encourage papers on Italian themes and on topics relating to translation.  Papers might address any of the following:  

·        Lawrence’s time in Gargnano

·        New directions in Lawrence studies

·        Lawrence as translator of Italian works

·        Translations of Lawrence into Italian

·        Publishing Lawrence in Italy

·        Translations of Lawrence into other languages

·        Lawrence and Europe

·        Specific works/genres associated with the Gargnano and Fiascherino periods, 1912–1914, e.g.:

·        Twilight in Italy and related Italian essays

·        Sons and Lovers

·        Mr. Noon

·        The Sisters

·        The Fight for Barbara

·        The Daughter-in-Law

·        The Prussian Officer stories

·        Poetic development towards Look! We Have Come Through

·        Biographies of Lawrence and his circle related to the period

·        Lawrence on the eve of World War I

·        Italy and World War I

·        Broader literary and historical contexts of the period and region (e.g., early Modernism; Italian Futurism; writers and Italian regionalism;  literature and writers of the Italian Lakes/  southern Alps ...)

·        Comparison of the Lawrences’ sojourns in Gargnano, Fiascherino, Firenze and Taormina

·         Creative engagements with Lawrence (original work or reflections on that of others)

For more information, contact:  Academic Program Director, Jill Franks (franksj@apsu.edu)

Visit the Gargnano Conference Website

41st Annual Louisville Conference
 on Literature and Culture since 1900

DHLSNA Call for Proposals

The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America will sponsor a panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, held at the University of Louisville on February 21-23, 2013. We welcome proposals on any aspect of D.H. Lawrence’s work. Proposals/abstracts for 20 minute papers, not exceeding 250 words, should include “Conference Proposal” in the subject heading and be emailed to Pamela Wright, at kupkw000@tamuk.edu. Please include institutional affiliation and contact details. The deadline for proposals is August 31, 2012.

INTERNATIONAL D.H. LAWRENCE CONFERENCE

4-6 APRIL 2013

EDUCATION AND CULTURE(S)

This conference will take place at the University of  Paris-Ouest-Nanterre. It is organised by the Lawrence Studies Research Group of this university with the participation of the “Texts and Cultures” Research Centre of Artois University.  

CALL FOR PAPERS

Education is an evil abstraction

“Departure,”  Last Poems

Lawrence was not an educationalist and certainly not an administrator in charge of the expansion of a complex system of schooling, structured in terms of a series of complementary demarcations: liberal education and vocational training, local needs and imperial duties, pure knowledge and applied science; a system which thus bore evidence of the divorce between the sciences and the humanities which would later be at the heart of the C.P Snow/F.R. Leavis debate on the "two cultures".

Not therefore an educationalist, but certainly a writer for whom the dialectics of education and culture are complex and paradoxical, as they already were intimated to be by Blake and Wordsworth, Dickens and Hardy.  Not an administrator, but a writer who was a former pupil of his time and of his (provincial) place, a writer brought up and spurred into being a creative writer in an England that was  socially and materially remade by industry and empire, and also by the extension of the public access to schooling in the decades after the passing of the 1870 Elementary Education Act (Forster’s Act).

Beyond the biographical data this topic brings to mind since Lawrence studied to be a teacher and was a teacher for a while, we may suggest various lines of reflection on the themes of education, culture or cultures:

-         Lawrence’s educational theories  in “Education of the People” and  his other essays and works. Women’s education. Lawrence and Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Lawrence and the English Romantics/ Lawrence and Nietzsche on education.

-         Teacher and mentor figures in his fiction.

-         Pedagogical authority and  the limits of the teachable. The role of experience.

-         Lawrence and the sciences

-         Lawrence’s conception of the Bildungsroman.

-         The relation between philosophy and art.

-         Genre and didacticism.

-         Lawrence as the author of a schoolbook ( “Movements in European History”).

-         High and low culture as reflected in his writings:  (cf the well-known TS Eliot/Leavis controversy about Lawrence). Cultured and non-cultured characters.

-         Learning (or not) from cultural differences.

This list is of course not exhaustive.

Proposals for papers should be sent to Cornelius Crowley AND Ginette Roy

before the end of November 2012:

crowley@u-paris10.fr

ginette-katz-roy@gmail.com

Please send a short abstract.

Organizing committee: Cornelius Crowley, Juliette Feyel, Stephen Rowley, Carol Veit, Ginette Roy.

 

DH LAWRENCE SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA   90TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCE’S ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY       On Sunday May 27, 2012,  the Society is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Lawrence's arrival in Sydney on May 27, 1922.   We will hold a buffet-style picnic in the Rose Garden Pavilion in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, from 12 noon to 3pm.   We will also celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the DH Lawrence Society of Australia.   (The Society was launched in May 1992 in the Rose Pavilion.)   Bring a plate of food  to add to the buffet table, and bring plenty to drink.     A LITERARY COMPETITION in association with the event is planned, and we hope many of you will enter it:     THE  MYSTERY OF THE MISSING CHAPTER       On June 21, 1922, Frieda Lawrence wrote to Mabel Dodge in Taos, saying: “L has written a novel, gone full tilt at page 305 – but has come to a stop and kicks.”   The same day Lawrence wrote to his agent in New York: “…have done half of Kangaroo – now slightly stuck”.   This “stopping” point in the novel (actually p. 309) comes between chapter ix, “Harriett and Lovatt at Sea in Marriage”, and chapter x, “Diggers”. Originally, “Diggers” was numbered by Lawrence chapter xi.   He renumbered it because the original chapter x is missing, excised from the holograph manuscript (probably with a razor-blade – precisely when, we do not know), leaving only the the indecipherable stubs of about 18 hand-written pages.   A day or so later Lawrence travelled up to Sydney and bought two new exercise books, one of which he later used to complete the first version of his Australian novel.   On the endpiece of the other, he wrote this address: Chan On Yan Kuo Min Tang Chinese Nationalist Party PO Box 80, Haymarket Sydney N.S.W.   After he returned to Thirroul, he began a new chapter xi, “Willie Struthers and Kangaroo”, which begins: “Jaz took Somers to the famous Canberra House, in Sydney, where the Socialists and Labour people had their premises: offices, meeting-rooms, club-rooms, quite an establishment.“     You are invited to write – either as text of whatever length you choose, or as a fairly brief chapter summary – what Lawrence might have said in that “missing chapter” (or any other interpretation of what might have occurred).   Your entry can be serious or amusing, or as imaginative, daring, iconoclastic (of Lawrence), or of any other flight of fancy, you might choose.   Entries will be read out at our “Lawrence Anniversary Commemorative Picnic” in the Rose Pavilion of the Botanic Gardens on Sunday May 27.   An appropriate prize will be awarded the winning entry, chosen by acclamation.  All entries will be subsequently published in Rananim.   (If you are unable to attend the event, then postal or email entries will not only be accepted, but warmly welcomed.)   You don't have to be a member of the DH Lawrence Society of Australia to come to this event or enter the Competition. All we need is your email address so we can keep in touch with you and let you know of up-coming events.  (Membership of the Society is FREE.)   CONTACT THE DH LAWRENCE SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA AT: info@cybersydney.com.au   VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT: http://www.dhlawrencesocietyaustralia.com.au

 

MLA
January 3-6, 2013 in Boston

President-Elect/Program Chair Holly Laird ( holly-laird@utulsa.edu ) has submitted the program for our session at MLA:

1. Beyond Fiction: Other Genres in D. H. Lawrence's Works

This panel invites papers on genre issues in D. H. Lawrence's works.  How do different genres interact across his career?  What pressure do Lawrence's poems, nonfiction, and plays put on conventional generic forms?  250-word abstracts or 15-minute papers; and bio by 10 March 2012; holly-laird@utulsa.edu
 
2. Modernism and D. H. Lawrence
 
How are modernist studies expanding the boundaries of the ways we approach Lawrence.  E.g., such expansions might juxtapose Lawrence with other writers, align him with the sciences of the time, reconsider his contributions to twentieth-century  thought. 250-word abstracts or 15-minute papers; and bio by 10 March 2012; holly-laird@utulsa.edu
 

Deadline: March 10, 2012

“Joyce and Lawrence”

 Call for Papers for a joint International James Joyce Foundation and the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America panel for the 2013 MLA in Boston.

While Joyce and Lawrence are generally considered the bookends of modernism, this panel seeks papers addressing areas of congruence between the two writers. Proposals are encouraged to look beyond the more traditionally observed differences between these two modernist writers and draw on new parallels between their works, aesthetics, and lives. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
        portrayal of educational institutions;
        the fringes of taboo;
        animal imagery;
        the Everyman;
        articulations of social sterility;
        language;
        gender;
        sexuality;
        politics;
        and the environment.

Deadline is March 3, 2012. Please send 250 word abstracts or 15 minute papers to BOTH: anne.fogarty@ucd.ie and holly-laird@utulsa.edu.
 

The 2011 International Lawrence Conference
June 29-July 3 in Sydney, Australia

The conference was a success and enjoyed by those who attended.  Papers were presented by Lawrence scholars from eleven countries--Australia, of course, but also the US, the UK, Wales, Japan, Korea,  South Africa, Indonesia, Sweden, India, and Canada.  View a copy of the Conference Program. 

Coming Soon--a Gallery Page with Conference Photos!

Please submit any digital photos from the conference or excursions that you wish to share with our members to Tina Ferris.  I will post them in a members-only section of the website.