RSS CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION STUDY
Sept 12-13, 2009
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Keynote Speakers:

James Phelan, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University.

Steven Zwicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Washington University.

Barbara Klinger, Professor of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. Winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award for best essay from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

Suggestions for panels and papers in all areas of English, American, and other literatures, media, and book history are welcome. For a list of possible topics and panels, see the RSS website.

The deadline is May 1, 2009. Please submit proposals of 250 words or less to Philip Goldstein at pgold@udel.edu or University of Delaware, 333 Shipley St., Wilmington, DE 19801, or visit the website: http://English.udel.edu/RSSsite p> Selected conference papers will be published in the RSS journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, which is an on-line, refereed journal which publishes theoretical and practical analyses in the related fields of the RSS, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States. Submissions are welcome at any time. See the RSS website for vol.1 of Reception.

The Reception Study Society promotes informal and formal exchanges between scholars in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception history, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and gender, race, ethnic, sexuality, postcolonial, religious, and other studies.

Deadline: 1 May 2009

Samuel Johnson Tercentenary Symposium--Harvard 2009
Location: Massachusetts, United States

The year 2009 marks the 300th Blocked Memories/Disavowed Histories anniversary of the birth of Samuel Johnson. To commemorate the event, Harvard University's Houghton Library will host an international symposium to celebrate Johnson's manifold contributions to intellectual and creative cultures. The symposium, which will be held Thursday, August 27, through Saturday, August 29, 2009, will coincide with the opening of a major exhibition featuring rare books and manuscripts from the Mary & Donald Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Details will be announced over the next six months, so please check our website periodically: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/conference_johnson.html

Thomas Horrocks
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Email: horrocks at fas dot harvard dot edu