Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 09:12:36 -0500
Subject: UPDATE: POLAND: Joseph Conrad; 5/29-6/1


(Please respond to polconr-AT-klio.umcs.lublin.pl)

THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS - EAST EUROPEAN MONOGRAPHS - MARIA
CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY CONRAD PROJECT

CONRAD'S POLISH FOOTPRINTS: III INTERNATIONAL JOSEPH CONRAD CONFERENCE 
at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. 

DATE OF THE CONFERENCE: May 29th - June 1st, 2001. 
DATE OF THE TOUR OF CONRAD'S POLISH FOOTPRINTS: June 2nd - 8th, 2001. 
PLACE: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, and The House
of the Journalist, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. 

The English Department, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin,
Poland, will have the honor and pleasure to host its third international
Joseph Conrad conference between May 29th and June 1st, 2001. Conradians
and their spouses are heartily invited to attend.

The scholarly proceedings (in English) will consist of papers on various
aspects of Joseph Conrad's life and works and matters related thereto
(Conrad's Polish, Central- and East-European contexts will be one of the
focuses of the conference). Select papers from the conference will be
published in a volume of proceedings in the series _Conrad: Eastern and
Western Perspectives_ published by East European Monographs, Boulder,
USA, and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, and
distributed by Columbia University Press, New York.

We plan to follow the conference between June 2nd and 8th by a tour of
Conrad's Polish Footprints taking in Cracow, Zakopane, Lublin and
Warsaw.

If you plan to deliver a paper at the conference, please submit 
its one-page abstract urgently: abstracts submitted after March 15th 
will not be included into a booklet of abstracts printed for the 
conference. 

Please send a declaration of your participation in the conference
(either with or without a contributed paper) to the conference address,
as below, or email polconr-AT-klio.umcs.lublin.pl  If you know any
academics who might have an interest in our conference, please encourage
them to respond.

Contact: Professor Wieslaw Krajka, Chairman of the Organizing Committee,
English Department, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. Marii
Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland.
Email: polconr-AT-klio.umcs.lublin.pl

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