Submit Proposals for Summer 2024
XI INTERNATIONAL ALDINGTON SOCIETY and
VII INTERNATIONAL IMAGISM CONFERENCE
June 22–24, 2024
Chavignol/Sury-En-Vaux, France
The XI International Aldington Society and VII International Imagism Conference will be held in Chavignol, France, near Sancerre and Sury-En-Vaux, the village where Aldington spent the last few years of his life. The International Richard Aldington Society was co-founded by Catha Aldington, and its first conference was held in her home in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the summer of 2000. Since that time, the conference has been held biennially. The first two Imagism Conferences were held at Brunnenburg Castle in Italy in 2007 and 2010, with the Aldington Society as a joint sponsor in 2010. The two conferences were then held jointly through 2016, and in 2018 the XX conference of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society was included. The 2024 conference will be the final joint conference of Aldington and Imagism. Out of this alliance The Imagist Society is born and will move forward as the focus of this organization.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite a wide range of possible papers dealing with any aspect of the life and work of Aldington and the Imagist Movement.
Topics may include but are not limited to the following suggestions:
- Modernism and Modernity
- Aldington in Sury-en-Vaux
- Aldington’s France
- Aldington and Imagism
- Transatlantic Contemporaries: Richard Aldington, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Richardson, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, May Sinclair
Deadline for submissions is February 2, 2024.
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The conference site:
La Salle Panoramique in l’Hôtel Restaurant Famille Bourgeois in Chavignol
Schedule:
Saturday June 22:
Arrival day.
Evening reading of poetry of Richard Aldington and others and H.R. Stoneback Tribute at the hotel.
Sunday June 23:
Academic Panels 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Banquet
Monday June 24:
Departure day.
At 12 noon, readings from Aldington’s work at his grave in Sury-en-Vaux.
Registration:
The registration fee will be a remarkably low $125, which covers the following conference expenses, including opening reception with wine and snacks, morning and afternoon breaks with refreshments during the full day of academic panels, and a closing banquet.
Lodging:
Tell them you are booking for the Aldington / Imagist Conference. Early booking of lodging highly recommended as the Domaine will not be able to accommodate all conferees; however, there are numerous inexpensive small hotels in the Chavignol-Sancerre area.
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