Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe
27-29 June 2012
Keynote Speakers:
Angela Smith, C. K. Stead, Maurizio Ascari, Gerri Kimber, Claire Davison-Pégon
Having arrived in London from New Zealand in 1908 to commence her life as a writer, Katherine Mansfield travelled widely in Europe during the 1910s and early 1920s. Rarely was this for pleasure; the notion of escaping from a situation, people, and later her search for a cure for tuberculosis, predetermined much of her journeying. The resonances of this constant travelling and immersion in foreign cultures can be perceived in both her personal writing and her creative endeavours.
Possible topics for discussion might include, but are not limited to:
KM and Germany
KM and Russia
KM and Poland
KM and Belgium
KM and France
KM and Italy
KM and Switzerland
Notion of expatriation and displacement in KM's stories
Responses to, and reception of, KM in Europe
KM's influence on continental writers
KM as (post)colonial traveller
Please send 200 word abstracts for individual papers of 20 minutes, or 500 word proposals for panels of 3 papers to Dr Janka Kašcáková at janka.kascakova@ff.ku.sk by 1 November 2011.
Decisions will be announced by 15 December 2011.