Call for Papers: Of Pynchon and Vice: America’s Inherent Others

[Michel Ryckx]

from: http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/announce.html
Announcements

Call for Papers

International Pynchon Week

Of Pynchon and Vice: America’s Inherent Others

June 9-12, 2010, Lublin (within easy reach of Warsaw), Poland



The city of Lublin has been flickering in the middle of the Zone chapter 
of Gravity’s Rainbow for thirty-five years. Associated by Pynchon with a 
flight westward from an oppressive regime at the end of the Second world 
War (and presented by another American writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, as 
radiant with the magic of the by-now-perished Jewish culture--but 
witnessing at present a revival of interest in its Jewish heritage), 
Lublin invites Pynchon scholars, students, fans, critics, and artists 
from all over the world to participate in  the biennial IPW Conference 
in 2010. While focusing on Against the Day and Pynchon’s eagerly awaited 
most recent novel, Inherent Vice, the conference is open to engagement 
with any aspect of Pynchon’s oeuvre and any Pynchon-related subject. The 
organizers hope to provide a forum for scholars in various disciplines, 
ranging from literature through cultural studies to the exact sciences, 
taking any critical or theoretical approach. There is no participation fee.

All presentations will be in plenary session. Each speaker will be 
allotted thirty minutes (including discussion). Presentations may take 
the form of individual papers, media presentations, or panels. Please 
submit proposals/abstracts (in English) of 500-750 words for individual 
presentations, or of 1,000-1,500 words for panels.  Responses to 
inquiries and notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail.

Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2009   
Decisions by January 15, 2010

Proposals/abstracts should be e-mailed to Zofia Kolbuszewska: 
zofkol at kul.lublin.pl <mailto:zofkol at kul.lublin.pl>.

Conference Organizers:

Andrzej Antoszek, Department of English, John Paul II Catholic 
University of Lublin

Tomasz Basiuk, American Studies Center, Warsaw University

Pawel Frelik, American Studies Department, Maria Curie-Sklodowska 
University, Lublin

Zofia Kolbuszewska, Department of English, John Paul II Catholic 
University of Lublin



	

	
		
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