Doris Lessing Society Annual General Meeting
The Doris Lessing Society Annual General Meeting will be held in the Sheraton Hotel (room tba in the Doris Lessing panel) on Friday, 4 January at 8:30pm. All are welcome. Wine and cheese will be served. Please email DorisLessingSociety@gmail.com with any questions.
Invitation from the Margaret Atwood Society
Ted Sheckels, President of the Margaret Atwood Society invites members of the Doris Lessing Society to join them at their Annual General Meeting at the MLA Convention in Boston at 8:45pm on Thursday, 3 January in Beacon H., Sheraton.
And the winner is…
Many thanks to the students and recent graduates who entered our Undergraduate and Graduate Student Essay Contests. The winners will be announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Doris Lessing Society at the Modern Languages Convention in Boston in January 2013.
Panel details for the MLA Convention
The Doris Lessing Society is organizing two sessions at the 2013 MLA Convention in Boston.
Please join the discussion. All are welcome!
Thursday, 03 January
98. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook: Fifty Years On
3:30-4:45pm, Beacon G., Sheraton
Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society
Presiding: Sandra Singer, University of Guelph
- “Going on Fifty: The Golden Notebook as Roman à Clef.” Roberta Rubenstein, American University
- “Feminism and Its Critique in The Golden Notebook, Then and Now.” Josna E. Rege, Worcester State University
- “Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Chick Lit.” Alice Rachel Ridout, Algoma University
Saturday, 05 January
506. “In Other Worlds”: Atwood and Lessing’s Speculative Fiction
12:00-1:15pm, Beacon G., Sheraton
Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society and the Margaret Atwood Society
Presiding: Cornelius Collins, Fordham University, Bronx
- “‘Watch Out for Art’: Science, Fiction, and Storytelling in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State University
- “Lessing and Atwood’s Dystopic Fictions.” Sharon R. Wilson, University of Northern Colorado
- “Narrative Possibility in the Speculative Fictions of Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing.” Lauren J. Lacey, Edgewood College
For abstracts, see our Current MLA panels page. For registration information about the MLA Convention, please visit http://www.mla.org/convention.
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