<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE<br><br>
An International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Letters, <br>
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia<br>
in association with the Katherine Mansfield Society<br><br>
27-29 June 2012<br><br>
Keynote Speakers:<br>
Angela Smith, C. K. Stead, Maurizio Ascari, Gerri Kimber, Claire <br>
Davison-Pégon<br><br>
Having arrived in London from New Zealand in 1908 to commence her life <br>
as a writer, Katherine<br>
Mansfield travelled widely in Europe during the 1910s and early 1920s. <br>
Rarely was this for pleasure; the<br>
notion of escaping from a situation, people, and later her search for a <br>
cure for tuberculosis, predetermined<br>
much of her journeying. The resonances of this constant travelling and <br>
immersion in foreign cultures can<br>
be perceived in both her personal writing and her creative endeavours.<br><br>
Possible topics for discussion might include, but are not limited to:<br>
- KM and Germany<br>
- KM and Russia<br>
- KM and Poland<br>
- KM and Belgium<br>
- KM and France<br>
- KM and Italy<br>
- KM and Switzerland<br>
- Notion of expatriation and displacement<br>
in KM’s stories<br>
- Responses to, and reception of, KM in<br>
Europe<br>
- KM’s influence on continental writers<br>
- KM as (post)colonial traveller<br><br>
A highlight of the conference will be an optional trip on 30 June to <br>
nearby Krakow, the home of Poland’s<br>
most celebrated artist, Stanislaw Wyspianski, with a visit to see the <br>
internationally renowned Wyspianksi<br>
museum and the stained glass window in the Franciscan church, the <br>
inspiration for two of KM’s poems.<br><br>
Please send 200 word abstracts for individual papers of 20 minutes, or <br>
500 word proposals for<br>
panels of 3 papers to Dr Janka Kaščáková at <a href="mailto:janka.kascakova%40ff.ku.sk" target="_blank">janka.kascakova@ff.ku.sk</a> by <br>
1 November 2011.<br><br>
Decisions will be announced by 15 December 2011.</div></div></body></html>