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MESSAGE FROM NEWSLETTER EDITOR Winter greetings and welcome newest members of the society. Super-charged from out conference in the fall in New Mexico, this newsletter is full of ideas and plans for the upcoming years. Pay special attention to the online journal proposal and the venue for the 2009 conference, graciously hosted by Michael Rex of Cumberland University in Tennessee. To our newest members, please send your latest news about what you have presented, published, discovered, and are planning at any time. I send out calls for information about 3 times a year, but you need not be dictated by those calls to let me know what is new with you. You should also contact me in case of problems or difficulties with the listserv. I wish you a productive 2008! Aleksondra Hultquist
MESSAGE FROM EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT Welcome to 2008! Your first welcome came in the news about our 2009 conference from Michael Rex, who is hosting it at Cumberland University. Be looking for more such messages as the year goes on, and be thinking about how you are going to respond to the Call for Papers--give a paper, set up a session, bring your friends! But before we hurry on to 2009, we should pause a moment to thank our colleagues at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque for the splendid conference they gave us in 2007. Carolyn Woodward, Robin Runia, Birgit Schmidt-Roseman, and Cynthia Murillo kept us wined, dined, and entertained. Isobel Grundy gave us an overview of the Orlando project that demonstrated what an important research tool it will be for us, and the poetry reading was one of the best ever. Thank you to everyone, including all the participants, who came from far and wide, and gave such excellent papers. Congratulations to Gania Barlow, who won the prize for the best graduate student paper. wishing you all the best in your endeavors this year--may your classes be responsive, your scholarship rewarding (and rewarded) and all your job interviews successful! Martha
Martha F. Bowden
"Pay your Tributes to Astrea’s name" DUES ARE NOW DUE for 2008! For a mere $15 a year you can continue to receive the newsletter, as well as the updates on our 2009 conference at Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN. The dues cycle goes from January to December. To send in payment, please go to the Aphra Behn website http://www.oldroads.org/behn/members/members.htm where you have a choice of either sending a check or using the PayPal option. Remember to fill in the membership form, so that all your information is up to date. Thank you for continuing to support our work! Opening Balance 1/1/2007 $5,010.79 Receipts:
Disbursements:
Balance, 12/31, 2007 $6,654.27 Balance in CD
*Please note that the total disbursements amount does not reflect the total conference cost. As of this date, I have not yet received the final bill from the University of Mexico for our share of the conference expenses, and I have not yet written the check for the graduate student prize ($300), announced earlier this month. Both expenses will be shown in the 2008 financial statement. Respectfully Submitted, Martha F. Bowden
Please take note of our executive board. Inquiries related to the society can be directed to the Executive President. Executive President: Dr. Martha F. Bowden APHRA BEHN SOCIETY CONFERENCE
The 2007 conference in October saw us gathering at the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, the land of green chile and margaritas. This year’s conference drew around 40 presenters who formed exciting panels that explored the theme “Heavenly and Earthly Bodies: Explorations 1660-1830”. Isobel Grundy gave us a demonstration of “Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles,” the exciting new online database of material on women, writing and culture that comprises the first full scholarly history of women’s writing in the British Isles. We broke up the business of scholarly pursuits with some fun-filled events, including a performance by the Albuquerque Baroque players featuring music by seventeenth and eighteenth-century female composers. Spirited renditions of juicy poems by Margaret Cavendish, Mary Leapor, and of course Aphra Behn, helped make the now traditional poetry reading the exact opposite of a “Disappointment”. Thanks to everyone who participated to help make this conference a resounding success - and special thanks to Michael Rex from Cumberland University, who volunteered to head up the planning committee for our next conference! Professor Carolyn Woodward Special congratulations are due to Gania Barlow of Columbia University, who won the prize for the best graduate student paper. Ms. Barlow will receive a $300 prize from the society for her excellent paper "'All my Prayers are in Vain': Social Morality and Moral Responsibility in The History of the Nun". APHRA BEHN SOCIETY CONFERENCE
Hail & Greetings, As the new Conference President for The Aphra Behn & Women in the Arts Society, I would like to announce the details of the 2009 Conference as they now stand: Where: Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN (20 min. east of Nashville), a small college town. When: 5-7 November 2009–over the Guy Fawkes Weekend What: Theme "What She Hath Left Us: Celebrating the First 20 Years of the Aphra Behn Society" Who: The Keynote speaker—Margaret J.M. Ezell from Texas A&M University, author of Writing Women’s Literary History. We will be having a Masquerade on Saturday where we will burn miniature effigies of Guy Fawkes and have an 18th Century Party with 18th century food (yes there will be vegan selections), music, and party crackers. The Theatre Department will be presenting a production of either The City Heiress, The Lucky Chance, or The Feigned Courtesans (final decision to be made later). Any thoughts, hints, suggestions, drop me a line at: mrex@cumberland.edu Cheers, Michael Rex,
PhD
APHRA ONLINE: THE JOURNAL OF THE APHRA BEHN SOCIETY Seeking an editor (or co-editors) for the proposed online, refereed publication, The Journal of the Aphra Behn Society. The Journal of the Aphra Behn Society will publish selected papers from the biannual Aphra Behn Society conference and will also attempt to bring together a variety of interdisciplinary, multimedia projects directly and indirectly related to women and the arts 1660 to 1830. Of special interest will be essays and projects that utilize technology in innovative ways (i.e. including performance arts; digital images; links to online projects including the Orlando Project, EBOO, and the Brown Women Writers Project; and other features that demonstrate the emerging importance of humanities computing to the ways in which we read women’s writing). The journal’s contents will include selected conference papers, the graduate paper award winner, book reviews, reviews of women writers in performance, and international news, as well as a bookstore and a collection of related sites. The editor or co-editors will be responsible for selecting and soliciting members of the editorial board, a book review editor, and a web designer/web content editor. The editor or co-editors will also establish submission guidelines, a refereeing process, and a publication schedule. If the editors would like to pilot a non-refereed version with selected papers from the recent conference in Albuquerque, we could try to have a version online by next fall and perhaps use this to solicit board members, book review editors, and other core staff for the journal. The editor or co-editors should have a strong sense of institutional support and backing for this project, which may (but does not necessarily need to) include graduate assistants, course reductions, and server space (alternately, the journal may be housed at a website with a domain name like “aphrabehn.org” for abut $20 a year). In keeping with the mission of the Aphra Behn Society, the journal will strive to uphold principles of inclusiveness, expansiveness, creativity, and collegiality to position of women and minorities in the academy. If you are interested in the position of editor or co-editor, please contact:Emily Bowles-Smith or Aleksondra Hultquist APHRA AT ASECS
PORTLAND, OREGON
OPEN MEMBERSHIP MEETING There will be an open membership meeting at ASECS this year to keep the membership informed of important issues during this non-conference year. All members are invited to attend and the executive board is especially encouraged to come. Please meet us at the Gay/Lesbian Caucus cash bar on Friday evening and we will go to dinner from there. Further details will be available we get closer to the conference. APHRA BEHN SOCIETY SPONSORED SESSIONS: APHRA BEHN AND HER CIRCLE Session I
Chair, Jessica Munns, University of Denver
Session 2
Chair, Jennifer Golightly, University of Denver
SOUTH CENTRAL MLA
Kamille Stone Stanton is inviting paper abstracts for a proposed special session entitled “The African in British Eighteenth-Century Literature” at the 2008 meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association to take place San Antonio, Texas Nov 6-8 http://www.ou.edu/scmla/ . Papers might examine, but are not limited to, the following topics about the long century, 1660-1815:
Paper proposals should be sent to Kamille Stone Stanton any time before February 1, 2008. If you would like to become a member, please provide your name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, email address, and phone number, or, simply print and fill out the dues form on our website. Send your information, along with your check made out to The Aphra Behn Society to our Executive President: Martha F. Bowden
The Aphra Behn Society is heavily dependent on membership dues for our conferences. Dues also aid in reducing fees for graduate students and in providing the Graduate Student Essay Prize awarded during our conferences. We appreciate your support and we encourage you to extend the invitation to join to scholars working on women in the arts in the long eighteenth century. |
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