With the thumb generation giving the go-by to writing letters, and catching up with the latest gadgets in town, now, this is quite an interesting read!
I strongly recommend students, researchers and colleagues to give this Meet a try!
Details below.
Call for Papers
Love Letters
3rd Global Meeting of the Letters and Letter
Writing project
Call for Participation 2016
Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January
2016
London, United Kingdom
What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do
the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation
to generation, and from one culture to another? Is a song, the words of which
adopt the conventions of epistolary communication, a letter? Or a love poem in
an envelope? Or a greeting card?
This conference provides a
rare opportunity for a global community to come together and discuss both
traditional and alternative love letters. This community could be made up of
those in the creative arts, writers, academics or non-academics, in other words
anybody with an interest in this area that is willing to share and participate.
This conference forms part of a specific focus research stream and continues
dialogues started as part of the Letters and Letter Writing project that began
two years ago. Its aim is to enrich current research, inspire new ideas and
approaches and take this discussion farther both in terms of creating new
networks and encouraging cross disciplinary projects that could find their form
in either events or publications. It might interest those in the fields of
literature, history, film studies, gender studies, political science,
linguistics, musicology, creative writing, life-writing to name just a few.
The Advisory Group welcomes the submission of
proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances,
papers and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings;
photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative
presentation styles that encourage engagement. Submissions should be no more
than 300 words and are invited on these or cognate themes for any historical
period or geographical location;
~ Love poems in letters
~ Breakup letters
~ Letters leading to betrothal or marriage
~ The role of scribes in writing love letters or
expressing intimacy and love (platonic, erotic or otherwise)
~ Love letters in the visual arts
~ Love letters in fiction, poetry, biography
(including fiction and poetry written as love letters)
~ The valentine industry and its effects on
personal relations, including between children
~ Expressions of love in valentines or other
greeting cards, from standard to bizarre
~ Artists’ valentines
~ Between gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual
partners
~ Platonic friendship expressed in epistolary
form
~ Parental love expressed in epistolary form
~ Love of church, god, country and nature in
epistolary form
~ Lack of love where it was expected/love
letters and stalking
~ Discussion of love in letters between writers,
philosophers or thinkers
~ Love letters sent from or to prison, POW camps
or mental health institutes
~ Love letters in opera, country and western
songs, and other musical genres
~ The past, present and future of the love
letter, and the factors that have shaped changing social attitudes toward this
mode of communication
~ How love / affection / desire is expressed
(vocabulary, explicitness, symbolism, imagery)
~ Etiquette and ‘art’ of letter writing
~ Love letters as political communication
~ Letters of admiration to a famous dead person
~ Online love letters
~ Love letters as historical/genealogical
documents (issues of reliability, archiving/preservation)
~ Influence of gender on the writing and
reception of love letters
~ Clinical perspectives on the impulse to write
and the pleasures associated with writing and receiving love letters
~ Multicultural perspectives on love letters
~ Critical strategies for analysing love letters
as a writing genre
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Love Letters project will be meeting at the
same time as two other projects: Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality and
Exploring The Erotic. All three groups will share at least one creative
workshop in common led by a poetess who writes sensual and erotic poetry. In
addition we welcome submissions which cross the divide between two or even all
three project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project
session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.
The workshop will address other
forms of writing, including letters and letter writing.
Further details and information can be found
here:
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of
contribution should be submitted by Friday 14th August 2015.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed,
under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the
Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail
that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple
reviewed.
You will be notified of the panel’s decision by
Friday 28th August 2015.
If your submission is accepted for the
conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday
11th December 2015.
Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad formats
with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like
it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of
proposal, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Love Letters
Abstract Submission
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to
both Organising Chairs:
Organising Chairs:
Linda McGuire: linda.mcguire@escdijon.eu
Rob Fisher: loveletters@inter-disciplinary.net
This event is part of a new emerging inclusive
interdisciplinary research and publishing project which overlaps projects
working in the areas of Writing, Letters, Graphic Novel, Storytelling. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
It is anticipated that a number of publishing
options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting
of the Love Letters stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital
eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which might
include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting
itself.
Ethos
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of
personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all
delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable
to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not
in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.
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