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>From: "Michael Gouin-Hart" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Close Reading; Open Topic (5/1/05; ALSC, 11/4/05-11/6/05)
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>For The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics'
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>Eleventh Annual Conference
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>Hotel Marlowe
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>Cambridge, Massachusetts
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>November 4-6, 2005
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>SEMINARS
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>The 2005 Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
>(ALSC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts will feature a series of seminars
>designed to increase participation of younger scholars in the conference.
>Modeled on what has worked successfully for such organizations as the
>Shakespeare Association of America and the Modernist Studies Association,
>these three seminars will each be led by a distinguished member of the ALSC.
>Association membership is required for participation in the conference.
>Student memberships start as low as $15. Standard new memberships start as
>low as $25. For details on how to join the ALSC, visit our website at
>www.bu.edu/literary. An online membership form is also available there.
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>The conference will be held from Friday, November 4 through Sunday, November
>6, 2005, at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The seminars will
>take place on Saturday, November 5. And our newest feature, the ALSC
>Coffeehouse Seminar, will run from 8:30 to 10 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
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>Each seminar will have fifteen (15) guaranteed places, and each person
>accepted to a seminar will receive an official letter of invitation to the
>conference and will be listed in the program. Participants in the seminar
>will write very brief position papers (2-4 pages, double-spaced), which they
>will circulate among themselves and read prior to the conference. The
>listing of the titles of these papers in the conference program should help
>the participants in their efforts to obtain funding to the conference from
>their home colleges and universities. Graduate students and junior faculty
>are especially encouraged to apply for these seminars, but senior scholars
>are eligible as well. Modest travel stipends will be available to a limited
>number of participants with special consideration given to ALSC members in
>good standing. These stipends will be awarded based upon need. Two documents
>are required to demonstrate sufficient need: (1) official notice (printed on
>institutional letterhead) that the award applicant's home institution has
>denied his or her request for funding to attend the ALSC Conference, and (2)
>a brief personal statement of need (a single paragraph will do). All stipend
>applications are vetted by the ALSC Conference Committee.
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>We hope that senior scholars will spread the word about these opportunities,
>and encourage their graduate students and junior colleagues to apply. The
>three seminars will run concurrently; those formally admitted to each
>seminar will participate in the actual discussion, but anyone at the
>conference will be welcome to attend one of the seminars as an auditor
>provided there is sufficient room. For details on the topics of the seminars
>and application procedures, please see below.
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>Announcing the Inaugural ALSC Coffeehouse Seminar
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>Friday, November 4, Cambridge, Mass.
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>8:30-10:00pm: papers, to be more or less immediately followed by an Open
>Mike, when our members are invited to read or recite for the pleasure of it.
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>We're calling for short papers, 10-15 minutes each, featuring a close
>reading of a literary passage from a work we are all likely to recognize (at
>least as one of our significant gaps). Each paper will be followed by a
>brief discussion. Java on tap! Graduate students, scholars, and writers of
>every kind are encouraged to participate. Presenting a paper constitutes
>official participation in the Conference, and your name will be included in
>the program.
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>Please send your proposal in the form of a 250 word summary by May 1st to
>Professor Lee Oser, Department of English, College of the Holy Cross,
>Worcester, MA 01610-2395; [log in to unmask]

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