MALCOLM LOWRY: A CENTENARY CELEBRATION
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 23-25, 2009
This international conference will celebrate the centenary of Malcolm Lowry's birth on July 28th, 1909. We invite proposals (250 words) or papers (20 minutes in length) on all topics concerning Lowry from any historical or theoretical perspective. We hope that the conference will serve as a celebration of Lowry's life and work as well as a springboard for new scholarly and critical work on his life and writing. To that end, we encourage submissions from young scholars.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Sherrill Grace, Department of English, The University of British Columbia. Prof. Grace is the author of numerous seminal works on Lowry, including Satan in a Barrel: Malcolm Lowry's Early Stories (1999), Sursum Corda: The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry (2 vols; 1995 & 1996), Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry (1992), and The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry's Fiction (1987). Other monographs include Regression and Apocalypse: Studies in North American Literary Expressionism (1989) and, most recently, Canada and the Idea of North (2002) and Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies (2004).
Professor Paul Tiessen, Department of English, Wilfrid Laurier University. Prof. Tiessen, founding editor of The Malcolm Lowry Newsletter and The Malcolm Lowry Review, has written numerous articles on Lowry and is the editor or co-editor of A Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century (2000), Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives (1997), The 1940 Under the Volcano (1994), The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's 'Tender is the Night' (1990), Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry (1990) and The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 (1988).
Please send papers or proposals in Word format by December 31st,
2008 to:
Prof. Richard J. Lane
Department of English
Vancouver Island University
Richard.Lane@viu.ca
and/or
Prof. Miguel Mota
Department of English
The University of British Columbia
motam@interchange.ubc.ca