Got this over the transom from Leland Person and thought I'd do my part to spread the word.
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1) The 2008 Hawthorne Society summer meeting at Bowdoin College is scheduled for June 12-15, 2008.
2) We have extended the deadline for submitting paper and other proposals for the Bowdoin conference until January 30th. Here’s the “Call”:
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Starting Over
The Hawthorne Conference organizers offer this wide-ranging rubric to include such topics as: Hawthorne's new start at Bowdoin, his beginnings as a tale writer; his "new" career as a novelist; his new (and constantly renewed) reputation; his interest in the beginnings of things (biblical, historical, personal); his new friends; his sense of the "new" vs. the "old" world; his definition of the "new" woman--and new man ("New Adam and Eve"); Hawthorne and the New Romanticism; Hawthorne and the New Classroom; Hawthorne and the (new) State of Maine; Hawthorne and the (new) structure of allegory; and Hawthorne in the new (21st) Century.
Please send paper topics by January 30, 2008,to Sam Coale, 39 Pratt Street, Providence, RI 02906 or samcoale@cox.net
3) We announce topics for ALA 2008 and MLA 2008:
ALA
Teaching Hawthorne
Hawthorne and the Performing Arts
MLA
Hawthorne as Story-Teller
Hawthorne and Emerson
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