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CALL
FOR PAPERS / INVITATION TO ATTEND
September
23-Sept. 25, 2010
University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Abstracts
(150-500 words) are due June 25, 2010.
Additional conference information will be posted here, so
check back for updates.
The
University Libraries of the University of South Carolina and
the William Gilmore Simms Society invite all interested
scholars to a conference exploring the life and works of
William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the antebellum South’s most
prolific writer and one of its best-known public intellectuals
as novelist, poet, critic, and historian.
The
University of South Carolina welcomes academics from all
disciplines, especially history, literature, philosophy, and
political science, to contribute papers on any aspect of
Simms’s life and work for this major national conference.
While the conference will address Simms and his writing from
all perspectives, one theme will focus on the comparatively
neglected post-Civil War period, when Simms elected to stay in
his war-torn native South Carolina, embracing the realities of
defeat and Reconstruction. Those papers addressing the postwar
writings will have the opportunity to be revised for inclusion
in a university press publication. Papers addressing other
aspects of Simms’s work will be considered for a volume of the
Simms Review, a refereed journal published by the Simms
Society, the conference cosponsor. A prize for the best
student paper will be offered, which includes complimentary
registration; to be considered, complete papers, not
abstracts, must be submitted by June 25, 2010.
Please join
us at the historic campus of the University of South Carolina
for this gala three-day event, Sept. 23-Sept. 25, 2010.
Abstracts (150-500 words) are due June 25, 2010. Send via
e-mail, along with a brief (50-100 words) biography, to:
Meriwetn@mailbox.sc.edu.
Please imbed
the information in the e-mail, not via attachment. Direct
questions to the same e-mail address. Conference registration
is $145, or $75 to students who are presenting, and includes
the opening reception, banquet, and program.
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