[EDLING:1709] CFP: Tenth Nordic Conference of English Studies

[Francis M. Hult]

Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies
University of Bergen, Norway
Thursday May 24 to Saturday May 26, 2007

Second Circular and First Call for Papers

The Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies will be hosted by the English 
Department of the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2007. Details of the 
conference will be posted as they become available on the conference web site 
at http://www.kongress.no/95.

Scholars in all areas of English Studies are invited to submit proposals for 
papers or posters to be presented at the conference. Papers will be presented 
at thematically organised parallel sessions and at workshops on specific 
topics. Each presenter will be allocated 30 minutes, including time for 
questions and discussion. (We recommed that papers/presentations last 20 
minutes, freeing the rest of the time for discussion.) The following themes 
have already been proposed as panel topics:

American Studies and its Outsides, The Body in the Text:  Literary and 
Linguistic Approaches to Embodied Language, "The  Captivity Narrative in 
British and American Literatures, Beginnings to the Present", Contemporary 
Poetry in English, Emigrant Letters in Historical 
Dialectology/Sociolinguistics, English in Europe, History of the English 
Language, Post-Colonial Studies.

There is room for many more panels and workshops, and the conference will be 
organised around the actual papers submitted. For those who prefer to give a 
visual rather than an oral presentation, there is the option of preparing a 
display in poster form. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference, 
and a specific time will be allocated for conference participants to speak to 
poster presenters.

There will also be plenary lectures with invited speakers on issues of general 
interest within English studies. Here are the speakers in question, with 
provisional lecture titles:

Professor Sylvia Adamson, University of Manchester, UK: Linguistics and 
Literary History, Literature and Linguistic History

Professor Benita Parry, Warwick University, UK: Third World Aesthetic?

Professor Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, USA: The Planetarization(s) of 
American Literature

Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark: Lingua 
Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European Integration and 
Globalisation

Professor Peter Trudgill, Fribourg University, Switzerland, and University of 
East Anglia, UK: to be announced

Proposals - including information about your academic position and 
institution, as well as a title and an abstract of 75-100 words in length =96 
should be sent to Charles I. Armstrong, email address 
Charles.Armstrong at eng.uib.no.

The organisers welcome proposals for workshop or panel themes from anyone who 
would like to chair a workshop/panel and is also willing to encourage and 
invite others to present papers there. If you want to suggest a new workshop 
or panel title, please contact Lise Opdahl at the following email address: 
Lise.Opdahl at eng.uib.no.

The deadline for firm proposals for papers and poster presentations is 
December 1st, 2006, but the organisers will be happy to receive preliminary 
suggestions before that date.

In addition to the academic programme, there will be a social programme at the 
conference, including opportunities to see something of Bergen and its 
beautiful surroundings. Bergen is Norway's second-largest city, with an 
intimate city centre and a vibrant student life. The city's most prestigious 
cultural event, the annual Bergen arts festival (Festspillene i Bergen), will 
be taking place at the time of the conference and tickets for concerts, plays, 
etc., should be available if participants enquire a few months in advance.

Bergen has its own airport: Flesland Lufthavn, with direct flights to
and from cities like Oslo, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.



English Department, University of Bergen, Sydnesplassen 7, 9037 Bergen.