Call for Papers

The 2012 annual colloquium in American Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc, will be held from October 26-27.

The plenary speaker will be Maureen N. McLane, author of two books of poems and co-editor of the The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). She won the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing in 2003.

We will also welcome Kerry Shawn Keys, poet, playwright, translator and performer, recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, USA, 2005 and Poet-Laureate Translator for translation from Lithuanian, Writers Union, Lithuania, 2003. And we would like to invite participants, poetry-lovers, from all over.

 

The deadline for participants:

October 10 , 2012

 

CZECH M.A. AND PhD. STUDENTS (EXCEPT FOR PRAGUE RESIDENTS) CAN GET FULL SUPPORT (free accommodation, free registration - ca 25 people) FUNDS STILL AVAILABLE!

PLEASE SEND YOUR APPLICATIONS AND ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS TO HANA.KROUPOVA@UPOL.CZ

APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE HERE.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS AT COLLOQUIUM.LITFILM@UPOL.CZ

DEADLINE FOR PARTICIPANT APPLICATIONS: October 13, 2012

 

Further information on the location, application, symposium format and accommodation see "Venue" section or contact the programme coordinator Lukáš Merz: colloquium.litfilm@upol.cz

 

The colloquium is part of the ESF project CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0150: Literatura a film bez hranic: Dislokace a relokace v pluralitním prostoru (litfilm.upol.cz)

 

The colloquium is organized with the kind support of the US Embassy in Prague.

 

 

Last update: September 20