ANTHOLOGY OF SELECTED ESSAYS

Essay submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2013. 
Any further questions, please contact us at: gradconf2012@gmail.com 
Thank you!

GUIDELINES FOR PUBLICATION IN ANTHOLOGY

As previously announced, conference papers will be selected and edited into an online anthology, provisionally entitled "Selected Essays on English and American Studies" (print copies available on demand), to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Here are the guidelines for the submission of conference papers:

Publication Guidelines

For more information, please contact us via our e-mail address at gradconf2012@gmail.com.

FINAL VERSION OF THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Here is the final version of the program for our International Graduate Conference.


Conference Program


Should you have any questions, please contact us via our e-mail address at gradconf2012@gmail.com.

Thank you!

CONFERENCE DINNER

Our conference dinner will be held on Thursday (November 22), at 8:30 pm.

The dinner is a ticketed event, with a cost of 20€, and it includes starters, main course, dessert, beverages, as well as a jazz concert (the full menu will be listed below).

If you are interested in attending, please confirm your presence via e-mail before November 18, specifying which option you prefer (fish, meat, or vegetarian).

Payment will be made upon arrival at our registration desk, on the first day of the conference (November 22).

The dinner will be held at "Salão Brazil"; for more information on the location, please check the following link:

https://plus.google.com/104927921821494632299/about?hl=pt-PT 

Here is the full menu for the dinner:

Starters: 

Seasoned olives and paste (to be defined)

Creamy carrot soup with spinach

Main Courses:

Fish: Creamy salted codfish Portuguese style

or

Meat: Roasted turkey with creamy potatoes and vegetables

or

Vegetarian

Dessert:

Caramel Pudding

Beverages:

Red and white wine Messias Selection, juice, coke, water or beer.

Coffee

If you have any questions regarding any item on the menu, please contact us via our e-mail address at gradconf2012@gmail.com. Thank you very much!

ANTHOLOGY: SELECTED ESSAYS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES

As previously announced, conference papers will be selected and edited into an online anthology (print copies available on demand).

Authors who wish to contribute to this anthology should send their essays by January 21, 2013.

Further information (extension, style sheet, and publication guidelines) will be posted as soon as possible.

HOTELS WITH SPECIAL PRICE FOR PARTICIPANTS

We would like to inform all participants that the following hotels have generously offered to accomodate Conference participants at special prices:


Hotel Astória
Single room (per night): 45€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast)
Double room (per night): 55€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast)
Reservations: astoria@almeidahotels.com

Hotel Tivoli
Single room (per night): 56€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and parking)
Double room (per night): 66€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and parking)
Website: http://www.tivolihotels.com/

Hotel TRYP
Single room (per night): 62.50€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and free wireless)
Double room (per night): 72.50€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and free wireless)
Website: http://www.trypcoimbra.com/

Residencial Botânico
Single room (per night): 36€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and free wireless)
Double room (per night): 46€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast and free wireless)
All rooms have private bathroom, telephone and TV.
Contact: residbotanico@gmail.com

Comfort Inn Almedina
Single room (per night): 36€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast)
Double room (per night): 46€ (tax included - with buffet breakfast)
Website: http://www.almedinacoimbra.com/


Please note that these prices are only valid if the reservation is made directly to the hotel. If hotel booking websites are used, we cannot guarantee these prices.

Furthermore, in order to enjoy these special prices, participants must mention the International Graduate Conference and, if requested, show valid proof of participation in the conference.

For more information, please feel free to contact us at gradconf2012@gmail.com.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DONALD PEASE AND ELIANE GLASER

Donald E. Pease

Plenary Title: "Sovereignty, Crisis, and the Literary Imagination" 

Donald Pease, professor of English, The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program and winner of the 1981 Distinguished Teaching Award at Dartmouth, is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory.

He is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context (which won the Mark Ingraham Prize for the best new book in the Humanities in 1987), The New American Exceptionalism (2009), and Theodor Seuss Geisel (2010).

Personal Homepage

Eliane Glaser

Plenary Title: "Ideology Now" 

Dr. Eliane Glaser is a writer, radio producer, and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She is particularly interested in ideology, politics, cultural theory, British tolerance, and religious identities. Her most recent book, Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions (March 2012) addresses the delusions we live under – from "revolutionary" plus-size models to "world-saving" organic vegetables; from heavily scripted and edited "reality" TV to "life-changing" iPhone apps. Dr Glaser has also published Judaism without Jews: Philosemitism and Christian Polemic in Early Modern England (2007), and she is currently editing a collection of essays, provisionally entitled Religious Tolerance in Early Modern England: Historical and Contemporary Reflections (2013). For more information, please check the following link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/honresearch/eliane-glaser