The H.G.Wells Society: Conferences

The Society organises a weekend conference each year when aspects of Well's life and work are discussed in a congenial atmosphere. Topics discussed in recent years have included:

The Short Stories of H.G.Wells

Publishing and Publicising Wells

Wells's Literary Friendships

The Society has arranged two major international conferences. The first, under the title "H.G.Wells Under Revision", was held in 1986 to mark the 40th anniversary of Wells's death.

In 1995 the Society took the initiative in arranging an international symposium, "The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future" to mark the centenary of the publication of Wells's scientific romance.

Please contact:- Philip Coupland
Humantities Research Centre
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
UNITED KINGDOM

E-mail:Philip Coupland

Telephone (from UK): 01933-229134 (home)

International Conference on George Gissing

A major conference on the works of George Gissing will be held at the University of Amsterdam, English Department, on the 9-11 Spetember 1999. The aim of the conference is to further the international exchange of research on George Gissing, whose reappraisal has been intensified by the recent collected correspondence, and by the publication of the 'Gissing Journal'.

The members of the organising committee are: Prof. Martha S. Vogeler (California State University, Fullerton), Prof. Jacob Korg (University of Washington), Prof. Pierre Coustillas (University of Lille), Dr. David Grylls (Oxford University) and Dr. Bouwe Postmus (University of Amsterdam).

For further information please contact:- Bouwe Postmus
English Department
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
1012 VT
Amsterdam
Holland

E-mail:Bouwe Postmus

Telephone: (+31) 75 6283406
Fax: (+31) 20 5253052

A Millennium of Utopias

A conference about the theory, history and future of Utopianism
JUNE 23-26, 1999 at the University of East Anglia.
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