AAALS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2004
The Nineteenth
Annual AAALS Conference
was hosted by John
Scheckter in New
York City
Theme: “Playing Australia”
Proposals are sought on the
widest range of literary interpretations of the topic: Performing,
enacting, inscribing the nation or landscape; theater,
film, public arts, informal
spectacle; role-playing, game-playing, playing sport; packaging,
advertising, selling, exporting Australia; literary hoaxes (Ern Malley,
Demidenko), playing around, playing jokes, fraud; modeling (social
sicence/couture), experimentation
(political/scientific);
setting boundaries.
Peter Carey and Kevin Hart
will be among several guest writers appearing at the conference.
Deadline for all proposals is January 15, 2004.
Contributions from graduate
students and beginning PhDs are welcome, as are those from other ranks
of the profession.
The 2004 AAALS Conference
Chair is Professor John Scheckter of Long Island University. He may be
contacted by e-mail at John.Scheckter@liu.edu,
by telephone at 1-516-229-2391; by fax at 1-516-299-2997; or by
regular mail at Professor John Scheckter, Department of English, CW
Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY 11548-1300 USA.
Download registration
form for the conference here
The
registration form may
be printed and mailed or downloaded and emailed as an attachment.
Please mail
your check or money order (in US$ payable to AAALS), or your credit
card
information (VISA or Mastercard only). If you send credit card
information by
email, please be aware that we do not have an encrypted secure link.
Cash
payment will be accepted at the conference.
Student Prize
AAALS will award a one
hundred dollar prize for the
best presentation by a student. The Albert Wertheim Prize is given in
memory of
a great teacher and our long-time member, supporter, and friend.
Membership
Please consider renewing
or beginning your AAALS
membership the easy way: at the same time as you register for the
conference.
Membership includes subscriptions to Antipodes and the AAALS
Newsletter.
Registration
The registration fee
includes all events except the
banquet: the opening reception, morning coffee and tea on both session
days,
Saturday luncheon, and all sessions and readings.
Hotel
Most
conference
events will take place at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 Seventh Ave. (at
33rd
St.). Special room rates, beginning at $129 single or double, are
available for
those who make reservations before 4 March. Please reserve your own
room by
calling the hotel at 1-800-223-8585 or 1-212-736-5000, ext. 8460. Be
sure to
mention the AAALS Conference.
Banquet
The
conference
dinner will be a Chinatown feast at the Mandarin Court Restaurant, 61
Mott
Street.
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