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).

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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