2002 International Hemingway Conference
Stresa, Italy, July 2-7, 2002
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In A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley escape at night by rowing a boat from Stresa, Italy, across Lago Maggiore to Switzerland. The Tenth International Hemingway Conference will take place in the same setting--in Stresa, Italy, on the shores of Lago Maggiore--from July 2 through 7, 2002.
Keynote Speaker: Tobias Wolff
Author of The Barracks Thief (Pen/Faulkner Award), In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War, This Boy's Life: A Memoir.
Sixteen years after the Second International Conference met in Lignano Sabbiadoro, the Stresa conference invites a new assessment of Hemingway in Italy:
Fresh readings of his novels, short fiction, and newspaper articles set in Italy
Studies of his life and travels in Italy
- Biographies, autobiographies, and letters
Contextual studies
- World War I
- Modernity and popular culture
- Modernism in art and literature
- Publishing, censorship, publicity, reception
- Other writers
Studies of international developments
- Expatriation
- Translations
- Marketing and collecting Hemingway
- Hemingway on the internet
- Hemingway's international reputation
- Teaching Hemingway abroad
Although we encourage a focus on Hemingway in Italy, we also welcome
- Papers on other Hemingway-related subjects and using various critical approaches
- Reports on Hemingway scholarship and editing
- Topic proposals for sessions, discussion round tables, and workshops
The variety of submissions and expressed interests in topics will help to form the final program.
Graduate students presenting papers may apply for a James Hinkle Travel Grant.
Selected papers will be considered for publication.
SUBMISSIONS: Completed papers are preferred, but abstracts will also be considered. Selected papers will be considered for publication. Submit abstracts, completed papers, and proposals for sessions, panels, and workshops by August 1, 2001, to Rena Sanderson, English Dept., Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725. Submissions may also be sent as e-mail attachments to rsanders@boisestate.edu. Address site-related inquiries to the Site Director, John Sanford, at JESanford7@aol.com