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Malcolm Lowry
Centenary International Conference
July 23-25, 2009
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
The 2009 Malcolm
Lowry Centenary International
Conference will be held July 23-25, 2009 at The University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Professor Sherrill
Grace, Department of English, The University of British Columbia.
Prof. Grace is the author of numerous seminal works on Lowry, including
Satan in a Barrel: Malcolm
Lowry's Early Stories (1999); Sursum
Corda: The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry (2 vols.
1995 & 1996); Swinging the
Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry (1992); and The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm
Lowry's Fiction (1987). Other monographs include Regression and Apocalypse: Studies
in North American Literary Expressionism (1989), Canada and the Idea of North
(2002), and Inventing Tom
Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies
(2004).
Professor Paul Tiessen,
Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Prof. Tiessen, founding editor of The
Malcolm Lowry Newsletter and The
Malcolm Lowry Review, has written numerous articles on Lowry and
is the editor or co-editor of A
Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth
Century (2000); Joyce/Lowry:
Critical Perspectives (1997); The
1940 Under the Volcano (1994); The
Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's Tender Is
the Night (1990); Apparently
Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry (1990); and
The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and
Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 (1988).
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
7:30 – 9:00:
Registration
9:00 – 10:00: Panel 1.
Mexico, Liverpool, Vancouver
Annick Drösdal-Levillain (Université de Strasbourg): “Malcolm Lowry: From Liverpool
to Vancouver in the Twinkle of an Eye”
Ryan Rashotte (University of Guelph): “National/Narratological Agency and ‘The Machinery of
La Mordida”
10:30 – 12:00: Panel 2. Lowry and Media
Michael Romer (Edinburgh): “Lowry’s Influence on Orcadian Filmmaker Margaret Tait”
William Hagen (Oklahoma Baptist University): “Scenes from the ‘Films’ of Malcolm Lowry”
Chris Ackerley (University of Otago): “Under the Volcano: From Novel to Opera”
Sarah Banting (University of British Columbia): “Alone Across the Border: Audience and
Geography in ‘The Bravest Boat’”
Multiplicity, and Reading Oneself in Malcolm Lowry’s Fiction”
The Unsteady Textual Voice in ‘Elephant and Colosseum’”
Malcolm Lowry, Literary Modernism, and a Million Moviegoers”
6:00 – 8:00: Film
8:00 - : Dinner/Free time
9:00 – 10:00: Panel 4. Lowry and Poetry
Anne C. Magnan-Park (Indiana University): “The Poet Invites the Storm: A Study of
Malcolm Lowry’s Unexplored Poems”
Christine Texier-Vandamme ( ): Under the Volcano and Jakobson’s ‘poetic writing’”
Chris Ackerley (University of Otago): “Lowry on the Web”
Layered Diegesis in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano”
Lowry and the Situationists”
Charles Hoge (Metropolitan State College of Denver): “Phantom Priapuss:
An Exploration of the Distorted Phantom Dog Tradition in Malcolm Lowry’s
Under the Volcano”
Nigel H. Foxcroft (University of Brighton): “Souls and Shamans: The Cosmopolitan
Psychology of Malcolm Lowry
Mathieu Duplay (Université Lille 3): “Pathologies of Knowledge: David Markson,
Under the Volcano, and the Experience of Thought”
Construction in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano”
Under the Volcano”
Interdimensional Life”
Malcolm Lowry’s Exercise in Literary Homothetics”
Landscape of Memory in Under the Volcano”
Please send papers or proposals in Word format by
December 31st, 2008 to:
Prof. Richard J. Lane
University-College Professor
Department of English
Vancouver Island University
<Richard.Lane@viu.ca>
and/or
Prof. Miguel Mota
Associate Professor
Department of English
The University of British Columbia
<motam@interchange.ubc.ca>