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Photo galleries: Chasing the Ghost of Malcolm Lowry: Prof. Richard Hauer Costa The 50th anniversary of Under the Volcano: June, 1997 The Malcolm Lowry Colloquium, UBC, April, 8, 1997
Under the Volcano: The Crossword
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The 50th Anniversary of Under the Volcano The International Malcolm Lowry Symposium will run from the 11th to the 15th of June 1997 at The University of Toronto. The primary organizers are Professors Frederick Asals (Department of English, University of Toronto) and Paul Tiessen (Department of English, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 -- publisher, since 1977, of The Malcolm Lowry Review, and of MLR Editions Canada -- email <ptiessen@mach1.wlu.ca> -- that's "mach one" not "mach el"). At present (as of January 1997), the tentative schedule includes the presentation of over 40 papers by Lowry scholars -- both new and established -- from many countries around the world. The key-note address will be given by Sherrill Grace of UBC, editor of Sursum Corda!, the two-volume collected letters of Malcolm Lowry (volume 2 being published this season by Jonathan Cape and University of Toronto Press). Her presentation has the title: "Reading 'Lowry' in the Dark Wood of Freud, Cocteau, and Barthes." (Professor Grace is editor also of Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry, and is author of The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry's Fiction.) Major conference addresses will also include an illustrated presentation by Chris Ackerley of the University of Otago ("Changing Landscapes: The Evolution of Under the Volcano"), and a lecture (sponsored jointly by the Lowry conference and the James Joyce conference, also meeting at Toronto at just about the same time) by Patrick McCarthy of the University of Miami ("Totality and Fragmentation: Lowry, Joyce, and Modern Anxiety"). (Professor Ackerley is co-author of A Companion to Under the Volcano. Professor McCarthy is author of Forests of Symbols: World, Text, and Self in Malcolm Lowry's Fiction, editor of Lowry's novel La Mordida, and co-editor of Joyce and Lowry: Critical Perspectives (forthcoming April 1997).) Organizers hope to be able to "squeeze in" all the conference events between noon on the Wednesday (June 11th) and noon on the Sunday (June 15th). Friday (the 13th) will be an excursion day, with a bus trip to the small town of Niagara-on-the-Lake to see places where Lowry lived and worked when he was finishing his last draft of Under the Volcano, and to take in a reading by players at the Shaw Festival Theatre of Michael Mercer's play about Lowry and Conrad Aiken: Goodnight Disgrace. Although more detailed information about registration will be available around late February 1997, it's likely that the conference registration fee will be around $150. That price will include the one-day bus excursion, plus three lunches (on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), plus a banquet, as well as various coffee breaks. Organizers are working with University of Toronto residences to make available accommodation and breakfasts at a reasonable cost (details to be announced), which will be separate from the $150. (For graduate students, the financial picture should look even better than this: stay tuned!) This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Under the Volcano (1947). The organizers hope that conference participants will meet and mingle with many other conference participants during the five days of this gathering, this celebration of the life and work of Malcolm Lowry. If you have any questions, please contact the organizers anytime -- the sooner the better! Thanks. pt
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