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

INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVEL, ACCOMODATION, AND MEALS

The conference will be held at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Largo da Porta Férrea - 3004-530 Coimbra (click here for the map of the location). In this post you will find useful information concerning travel, accomodation, and meals, which you will be able to download in Word format. If you experience any problems downloading these documents, please contact us at gradconf2012@gmail.com.


To download detailed travel information, please click here.

For information concerning accomodation at Coimbra, please click here.

Finally, for information related to meals (cafeterias, restaurants, etc.), please click here.


For any further information, please contact us at our regular e-mail. Thank you! 

THANK YOU

Thank you to all who have submitted abstracts for the conference! We are very pleased with the response to our “Call for Papers,” as we have received numerous proposals from all over the world, covering the most diverse areas and topics.

Please note that acceptance of papers for presentation does not necessarily imply acceptance for publication. Essays for the anthology will be selected after the conference; more information about this volume will be posted on our weblog in September.

Until then, please confirm your participation via e-mail and… enjoy the Summer!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Please, click here to download the conference registration form.
[File - Download As - Microsoft Word 97-2003 (.doc)]
If you experience any problems downloading this document, please contact us at gradconf2012@gmail.com.


New Deadline for Regular Registration: 30th September 2012


CONFERENCE FEES

                                              Regular Registration             Late Registration
                                              BEFORE                                 AFTER
                                              September 30th 2012              September 30th 2012

Non-students                              50€                                          60€

Students (presenting a                30€                                          40€
paper / participating in
a roundtable)
Membros Rede UC

Students (NOT presenting         10€                                           15€
a paper / NOT participating
in a roundtable)


The registration fee includes conference materials, certificate of attendance, and coffee breaks.

Conference participants will be responsible for making their own travel arrangements.

Useful information about travel, accommodations, and meals will be made available on our weblog in August 2012. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at: gradconf2012@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you in November!

FACEBOOK PAGE & EVENT

We have created a Facebook Page for our Conference; you can find it here: http://www.facebook.com/InternationalGraduateConferenceCoimbra2012

We have also created a Facebook Event for our Conference, where you can find news, updates, etc. We invite you to join this event, and we would also like to ask you to invite your friends, colleagues, and whoever you think might be interested!

This is the direct link for the Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/357010584362107/

NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS

The deadline for submission of proposals has been altered to July 1st 2012.

Applicants will be notified by July 8th 2012.


Please send all proposals to our e-mail: gradconf2012@gmail.com.

PUBLICATION: ANTHOLOGY OF SELECTED ESSAYS

We are pleased to announce that conference papers will be selected and edited into an anthology of essays to be published online (print copies may be available on demand).

Information regarding deadlines for submission and edition guidelines will be announced as soon as possible.