Wuhan Conference

Call for Papers

International Conference on the 20th-Century American Poetry Wuhan, China July 21-23, 2007

The International Conference on the 20th-Century American Poetry will take place in Wuhan, China, July 21-23, 2007. It is organized by Foreign Literature Studies (an AHCI source journal), Central China Normal University, and co-sponsored by such institutions as Centre for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania (USA), Beijing Language and Culture University (China), and Northwest Normal University (China). The main topic of the conference is the 20th-Century American Poetry with subtopics as follows:

1. Charles Bernstein and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
2. Langston Hughes: his art and influence (A special symposium on Langston Hughes will take place during the conference.)
3. The politics of poetic form in modernist and contemporary American poetry
4. Visual and sound text, performance, and collaboration in the 20th-century American poetry
5. Rethinking the canon of American poets, modernist, postwar, and contemporary: new perspectives, new challenges
6. Minority, mainstream, insider, outsider: who writes American poetry and who reads it?
7. China and American poetic Encounters and Differences in the 20th and 21st century

This will be a large-scale academic conference in China completely devoted to the 20th-century American poetry and will be attended by many distinguished scholars from the world like Professor Marjorie Perloff, president of Modern Language Association of America (MLA) and fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), and Professor Charles Bernstein, theoretician of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and fellow of AAAS. Conference languages are Chinese and English.

Papers for this conference are now called from scholars all over the world. Quality papers will be selected for publication in Foreign Literature Studies and The World Literature Criticism, and the proceedings of the conference will be published afterward.The official letters of invitation for this conference will be sent upon receipt of the papers or abstracts. Papers and/or abstracts are expected to be submitted by mail or, preferably, by e-mail by March 15, 2007, to:

Professor Luo Lianggong
Editorial Office, Foreign Literature Studies,
Central China Normal University
152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Phone: 27-6786 6042 ( also Fax), 138-8606 7048
E-mail: flschina @ yahoo.com
For more details about this conference, please go to our website: www.flschina.net

Call for Papers
The International Symposium on Langston Hughes
Wuhan, China July 21-23, 2007

The International Symposium on Langston Hughes will take place as a special event of the 3-day International Conference on the 20th-Century American Poetry on the campus of Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, July 21-23, 2007. Both these two events are sponsored by Foreign Literature Studies, one of Chinas top academic journals and also an AHCI source journal, together with organizations like University of Pennsylvania, Beijing Language and Culture University, and Northwest Normal University (China). This symposium on Langston Hughes will focus mainly on Langston Hughes as a Poet: His Art and Influence with the following 3 subtopics:
1) Langston Hughes in the context of American literature;
2) Langston Hughes and China;
3) Langston Hughes from the international perspective.
At the symposium a special ceremony will be held in commemoration of this great African-American poet in the 40th anniversary of his death. Please submit your papers or abstracts for this conference and symposium by April 30, 2007, to Professor Luo Lianggong, assistant editor-in-chief of Foreign Literature Studies, who is now undertaking a project on Langston Hughes sponsored by China National Funds for Philosophy and Social Sciences.

His address:
Professor Luo Lianggong
Editorial Office, Foreign Literature Studies
Central China Normal University
152 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
E-mail: luogon2 @ yahoo.com or flschina @ yahoo.com
Phone/Fax: 86-27-6786 6042