'The Robert Graves Society is pleased to announce that the Eleventh International Robert Graves Conference will be held at St John’s College, Oxford, from Tuesday 4th September to Saturday 8th September 2012. The theme of the conference will be ‘Robert Graves and Modernism’.

Robert Graves’s true place in 20th century literature and thought is increasingly seen as much more central than the relatively marginal status given to him in standard critical accounts. This conference aims to help re-situate Graves in his era by examining aspects of Graves’s relation to modernism and modernist writers/writing.

The arrival at St John’s College of a substantial archive from Graves’s home in Mallorca shortly before the Ninth International Conference in 2006 marked an important event in Robert Graves studies. Among the manuscripts and books in the bequest were a considerable body of late unpublished poems; the core of Graves’s personal library, including annotated copies of his own works; and over 10,000 letters, which testify to the extraordinary range of intellectual and artistic contacts that Graves maintained throughout his long and prolific writing life.

St John’s College, Oxford, was founded in 1555, and accommodation for delegates will be available within the college, or in hotels nearby. Robert Graves studied at St John’s and lived close to Oxford at Boar’s Hill and Islip from 1920, following his First World War service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, until January 1926, when he left for Egypt with his wife Nancy Nicholson, their four children and the American poet Laura Riding.

Speakers and readers at the conference will include Allan Mallinson, John Goodby, Michael Longley, Ruth Fainlight, Helen Goethals, William Graves, Fran Brearton.

Robert Graves at Islip, c. 1923

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposals are invited for papers (20-30 minutes) on relevant topics. These could include: First World War writing and literary modernism; Graves’s 1920s literary criticism; Graves’s poetry of the war and interwar years; autobiography and modernism; historical fiction in context; early 20th century historiography and Graves’s role as historian; literature and psychology; literary Oxford in the 1910s and 20s; modernist styles and experimentation; myth and symbolism; Graves’s relation to other arts – painting, music, film, photography, dance; Graves and Eliot; Graves and modernity; the gender of modernism.

Please send (preferably by e-mail) an abstract (max. 250 words) by 30th June 2012 to the conference organiser:
Dr Fran Brearton

Reader
School of English
Queen’s University Belfast

Belfast BT7 1NN

Email:

PARTICIPANTS

The conference is open to all. It will be of interest to academics, teachers, research students, and anyone else who is interested in the life and writings of Robert Graves and his circle. The series of Robert Graves conferences have built up a reputation for their scholarly excellence and their friendly dialogue among participants from a wide variety of back-grounds, both lay and academic, and the Graves family itself.
To register for the conference please complete the form overleaf and send it to: The Robert Graves Society, 50 Ham Green, Pill, Bristol, BS20 0HB, UK. Enquiries about the conference should be sent to the same address, tel: 44 (0)7990 511 665, e-mail: .

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Full Time Student, Over 60 or other concession / RGS Member / 75 / 125 / 100
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Day Partici-pant (per day) / Full Fee / 50 / 85 / 65
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Oxford Univ. Student / 5 days: no meals / 25 / NA / NA
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____Nights B&B at St John’s (room with bathroom): per night / 65 / 110 / 85
____Nights B&B at St John’s (shared bathroom): per night / 48 / 85 / 65
Robert Graves Society Membership (incl. Gravesiana) / 17 / 30 / 25
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Conference Organiser: Dr Fran Brearton

Conference Administrator: Patrick Villa

Eleventh International

Conference

‘Robert Graves and Modernism’

at

St John’s College

Oxford

UK

4th–8th September 2012

www.robertgraves.org