Talks and Talks

A summary of recent Conferences where a Brontë-related talk has been presented:

The Motherlode: A Complete Celebration of Mothering

October 26-29, 2006, Courtyard Marriott Downtown, Toronto, Canada

October 26 Panel: Mothering and Literature

• A Vindication of Single Motherhood in Anne Bronte's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", Monika Lee (Brescia University College)

University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. English Department Colloquium Series
October 20, 2006

Student panel, The Joys and Challenges of Literary Research

• Imprisoned Women and the Woman Question: Elizabeth Fry and Emily Brontë, Brynn Bauer.

  This interdisciplinary essay provides original analysis of the role of the woman prisoner in Victorian society, both as a subject of philanthropic concern and as a trope for all spiritually imprisoned women in Victorian society.

Inscription Conference: Faith and Learning
September 28-30, 2006, Abilene Christian University.

Saturday, 30. Panel: Moral Exempla in British Literature

• Do As I Say, Or As I Do? The Same Christian Lesson via Differing Examples: Teaching Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University

APETAU (Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities) 3rd International Conference
23-25 August 2006, Region Hotel in the Amman (Day 1) and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Jordan (Days 2 & 3).

August 24

• Representation of the Other in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with reference to Bertha Mason, Isam Shihada.
  

Beyond the Widening Sphere: transatlantic perspectives on Victorian Women
July 28-29, 2006 The Bedford Centre for the History of Women,
Royal Holloway, University of London

Sunday, 29. Panel: Female identity and the construction of the text

• ‘In her own métier’: The Quarterly review of Jane Eyre, Julie Sheldon, History of Art and Museum Studies, Liverpool School of Art and Design

Dream,Imagination and Reality in Literature, International Literary Conference
České Budějovice,30 th June – 2 nd July 2006
University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic

Saturday 1. Panel: Dream and Reality

• "A Fearful Voyage I Had": Dreams of Reality in Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' and Jean Rhys's 'Wide Sargasso Sea', K.Vránková,University of South Bohemia

XXVII Encontro da APEAA (Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos) – XXVII APEAA Meeting
27-28 April, Carcavelos, Portugal

April, 27

• Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre, by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, in the line with Victoria, by Charlotte Dacre, Raquel Sara Simões,Grémio de Instrução Liberal de Campo de Ourique

Tenth Annual Conference of the Illinois Philological Association
April 7-8, 2006, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, US

• [In]Sanity and Discontent: a postcolonial inquiry into Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Mr. Christopher Bass, English Honors and French Major, Millikin University. (Abstract here)

2006 SCMS Conference Media and the Americas
March 2-4, 2006, Chicago, US

March 3, Panel: Studies in Adaptation

• Gothic Intimacies and the Americanization of Jane Eyre: Re-Writing the Affect-Nation in I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur 1943) and Dragonwyck (Joseph Mankiewicz 1946), Karen Williams (New York University/ Fordham University)

Acacia Conference 2006: Politicizing texts
February 17th and 18th 2006, Titan Student Union (TSU), California State University, US.

February 18, Panel: British Literature Through Theory

• Demeaning Language, Fluctuation of Power, Game Play, and Erotic Power Differences: Male-Female Relationships in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Shirley, Sana Sayed.

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