Proposals Deadline Extended: Doris Lessing Society Sessions at MLA 2021

Dear Doris Lessing Scholars,

In view of the coronavirus, we are extending the submissions deadline for proposals for the Doris Lessing Society sessions at the 2021 MLA Convention to Monday, March 23, 2020. Please find below the CFPs for the two sessions the Society hopes to sponsor at the MLA, to be held in Toronto, Canada, Jan 7-10, 2021. As an Allied Organization of the MLA we are guaranteed one session and can propose a second. The second is designed to fit the theme of the convention which, in 2021, will be Persistence.

1. Roundtable: Doris Lessing’s Global Readership
   Thirty years after Claire Sprague’s collection,In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading, Lessing’s readership is more globally dispersed and more locally situated. Inviting 300-word abstracts for 10-minute presentations in micro/macro, cultural/transcultural frames.
   Deadline for submissions: Monday, 23 March 2020[Note extended deadline]
   Josna Rege, Worcester State U (jrege@worcester.edu)
2. Through the Hard Times: Outlasting Tyranny in Speculative Fiction
   Doris Lessing, Atwood, Coetzee, Butler, and Le Guin, among others, show us what persistence looks like and what to preserve until the walls come down. Comparative papers welcomed. Please send 300-word abstract with short bio.
   Deadline for submissions: Monday, 23 March 2020 [Note extended deadline]
   Josna Rege, Worcester State U (jrege@worcester.edu)

Calls for Papers: DLS sessions at MLA Toronto, 2021

Dear Doris Lessing Scholars,
I am copying below calls for papers for two sessions the Society is proposing for the next MLA convention, which will be held in Toronto, Canada, Jan 7-10, 2021. As an Allied Organization of the MLA we are guaranteed one session and can propose a second. The second is often designed to fit the theme of the convention, which, in 2021, will be Persistence. 

Please write to me with any questions. 

Thank you, 

Josna Rege

Current President, DLS

Doris Lessing Society: Call for Papers for two sessions
2021 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
Toronto, 7–10 January 2021
Please write to Josna Rege (email address below) with any questions. 

1. Roundtable: Doris Lessing’s Global Readership
Thirty years after Claire Sprague’s collection, In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading, Lessing’s readership is more globally dispersed and more locally situated. Inviting 300-word abstracts for 10-minute presentations in micro/macro, cultural/transcultural frames.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 16 March 2020
Josna Rege, Worcester State U (jrege@worcester.edu)

2. Through the Hard Times: Outlasting Tyranny in Speculative Fiction
Doris Lessing, Atwood, Coetzee, Butler, and Le Guin, among others, show us what persistence looks like and what to preserve until the walls come down. Comparative papers welcomed. Please send 300-word abstract with short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 16 March 2020
Josna Rege, Worcester State U (jrege@worcester.edu )

Doris Lessing at 100: one month away

“Lessing at 100: The Writer’s Quest,” a conference marking Doris Lessing’s centennial, is taking place at the University of East Anglia next month! A full slate of papers and several special events, with appearances by authors such as Margaret Drabble, are scheduled. Registration to attend the conference is open through 16 August. See the website for more information: http://dorislessing100.org/

inviting submissions for Doris Lessing Studies, 2019 (by 1 Sept.)

From the editors of Doris Lessing Studies:

Our refereed journal, published yearly online, invites submissions on any topic of Doris Lessing’s work, including this year’s special focus: considerations of Doris Lessing at 100. To follow on this year’s MLA panel on the same theme, we seek essays reflecting on and reckoning with Lessing’s vision of the past century; assessing what’s changed since 1919; or weighing her canonicity for the twenty-first century.

Contributors may also submit short essays, notes, reviews, news, bibliographies, announcements, and reports of classroom experiences.

Manuscripts should follow the current MLA handbook for style (MLA 8) and between twelve and twenty pages in length, double-spaced. Submit manuscripts as email attachments in Word to the editors, Cornelius Collins and Alice Ridout: dorislessingstudies at gmail.com. Endnotes should be indicated by superscript numbers manually added within the text and typed in at the end of the article.

Deadline: September 1.