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Dear Fellow Dickensian,As your conference organizer, I would like to personally invite you to the Dickens Project’s Winter Conference. Every year, in conjunction with the Summer Conference, the Dickens Universe hosts a winter event one weekend in February. This Winter Conference is designed to give graduate students the opportunity to present their work in a constructive and professional environment.You may propose a paper for the Winter conference on any nineteenth-century British author, text, or topic. It needn’t be on Dickens. All proposals are accepted. Proposed papers are then assigned to faculty mentors, who are experts on British literature or a related field. Before the conference your faculty mentor will read your paper and work with you to perfect it. At the Winter conference you will present your paper on a panel composed of your peers and moderated by your faculty mentor. (A major benefit of this conference is that it strengthens the relationships of faculty and graduate students from the Summer conference.) You can take a look at last year’s conference program at the Winter conference website, www.english.ucla.edu/dickens. The Winter conference is being held this year at UCLA. For participants coming further than an hour’s drive, free hotel accommodations will be provided, and for all participants all meals will be provided. You need only get yourself to and from Los Angeles! (For helpful advice on flying and driving in, please see the Winter conference website.) The conference will be held this year on the weekend of February 18-20. (This is President’s Day weekend, and your school may have the Monday off.) The deadlines before the conference are as follows: August 6 – Fill out the registration form and return it to Anne Stiles December 1 – Mail or email final titles and one-paragraph abstracts December 20 – Mail copies of final papers If you accept this invitation, you will receive another letter from me in the Fall with further instructions. All inquiries should be sent to me, Anne Stiles, by email (stiles@ucla.edu). I hope to see you at the Winter Conference in February! Sincerely, Anne Stiles stiles@ucla.edu |
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