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Henry James Society
9th International Conference, Kyoto, Japan
"Community and Communicability"
The Henry James Society
Ninth International Conference
Kyoto
5-8 July 2023
Call for Papers
Community and Communicability
It will be a joy for all Jamesians to gather together after a long period of isolation caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic. We are all hyper-aware of the need to re-establish community and to create new communities to restart and rethink our lives, both academic and private. “Community and Communicability” will spotlight issues concerning creating and maintaining communities that are also at the core of James’s writing by exploring the role of language and forms of social relations and networks. It will also focus on questions of nonverbal communications of the body and touching, as well as James’s views of illness and recuperation. We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers addressing any aspect of the topic as suggested below, but other approaches are invited as well.
Please send a 250-word abstract and short biography to Hitomi Nabae (hitomi@inst.kobe-cufs.ac.jp) and Sarah Wadsworth (sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu) by 1 Dec. 2022. Please note if you have any AV requirements.
The Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society will be an in-person conference currently planned for Kyoto, Japan with a contingency plan to hold the conference in the United States (tentatively in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) if travel restrictions make the Kyoto location unmanageable. All applicants are advised to check travel restrictions and be aware of local conditions. If it becomes necessary to change the location from Japan to the United States, attendees will be informed by 1 Feb. 2023.
9th International Conference, Kyoto, Japan
"Community and Communicability"
The Henry James Society
Ninth International Conference
Kyoto
5-8 July 2023
Call for Papers
Community and Communicability
It will be a joy for all Jamesians to gather together after a long period of isolation caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic. We are all hyper-aware of the need to re-establish community and to create new communities to restart and rethink our lives, both academic and private. “Community and Communicability” will spotlight issues concerning creating and maintaining communities that are also at the core of James’s writing by exploring the role of language and forms of social relations and networks. It will also focus on questions of nonverbal communications of the body and touching, as well as James’s views of illness and recuperation. We welcome proposals for twenty-minute papers addressing any aspect of the topic as suggested below, but other approaches are invited as well.
- James family relationships
- James and the publishing world
- Circulation (e.g., of literary magazines)
- Writers and artists at the end of the 19th century
- What James (or the Jameses) can tell us about the pandemic/ social crisis
- Queer glances and interactions in James's work
- Letters, telegraphs, and other communication tools
- Border-crossing and identity
- Humans and animals
- The living and the dead
- James and film adaptations
- James and life-writing
- James and translations
- Jamesian collaborations: artists, illustrators, writers, directors, etc.
- Social and professional networks
- Women and society in James
- Illness and care / healing
- Isolation / socializing
- Spaces of sociability
- Globalization, migration, mobility, and illness
- The body and the brain in relation to communicability
- Creativity in crisis
- Communal experiments in crisis
- Reading and / or teaching James in the Pandemic
Please send a 250-word abstract and short biography to Hitomi Nabae (hitomi@inst.kobe-cufs.ac.jp) and Sarah Wadsworth (sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu) by 1 Dec. 2022. Please note if you have any AV requirements.
The Ninth International Conference of the Henry James Society will be an in-person conference currently planned for Kyoto, Japan with a contingency plan to hold the conference in the United States (tentatively in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) if travel restrictions make the Kyoto location unmanageable. All applicants are advised to check travel restrictions and be aware of local conditions. If it becomes necessary to change the location from Japan to the United States, attendees will be informed by 1 Feb. 2023.
