The Hemingway Review

Hemingway Society International Conference

We are pleased to announce that the 14^th Hemingway Society Biennial Conference will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from June 25 to July 3, 2010, continuing the tradition of alternating conference locations between a domestic U.S. site and an international site.

The sessions will convene on the beautiful campus of the University of Lausanne, which is situated on the shores of Lac Léman with stunning views of the Alps. Inspired by the setting, the conference theme is “Hemingway’s Extreme Geographies.”

A formal “Call For Papers” will be posted on the conference website ( http://home.comcast.net/~hemingway2010/ ) in the coming months, but we hope participants will interpret the theme broadly to include not only the extreme external geographies of Hemingway’s life (Switzerland, Africa, the American West, the Gulf Stream, warscapes, etc.), but also the extreme internal geographies of authorship, gender/sexual identity, racial identity, remorse, violence, inspiration, etc.

Conference planning is now in the beginning stages, but for more information about and pictures of the location (as well as the latest news), please visit the conference website at http://home.comcast.net/~hemingway2010/ .

In the meantime, if you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact the conference co-directors, Suzanne del Gizzo or Boris Vejdovsky at hemingway2010@comcast.net. Emails sent to this address will be forwarded to both Suzanne and Boris. [End Page 166]

Call for Papers: 2009 American Literature Association Conference

The Hemingway Society is now inviting proposals for its two sessions at the 2009 ALA, May 21–24 in Boston, MA:

I. Teaching The Garden of Eden This panel seeks to explore issues and strategies related to teaching Hemingway’s posthumously published novel, The Garden of Eden. Since it was first published in 1986, the available version of The Garden of Eden has occasioned controversy and significant re-evaluations of Hemingway’s work, personal life, and persona.

Papers should address questions such as: What are the challenges of teaching The Garden of Eden? What issues arise (ethical, philosophical, generic, etc.)? What pedagogical strategies are useful? What critical/theoretical approaches are useful? How do students respond to the novel? Write about it? What is the value of teaching Garden? The panel will consist of 4 or 5 presenters with short papers (approximately 10 minutes each).

Please send 1-page proposals with academic rank and affiliation and av requests to Carl P. Eby at CarlPEby@gwm.sc.edu AND Suzanne del Gizzo at del-gizzos@chc.edu by 15 December 2008.

II. Sentencing Ernest Hemingway/One True Sentence In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway recalls assuring himself: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” With Hemingway’s self-exhortation in mind, the Hemingway Society is convening a panel of several speakers at ALA in Boston to deliver 8–10-minute-papers, each devoted to a single Hemingway sentence. The sentence chosen from Hemingway’s work should best capture the essence of who Hemingway was. It might be the truest, or the most moving, fertile, important, teachable, problematic, or purely Hemingwayesque sentence. Your choice might have particular biographical, historical, personal, or stylistic resonance.

Ultimately, if you had to use one Hemingway sentence to open a discussion or a lesson about the author, which would it be? Any sentence—from Hemingway’s novels, stories, poems, nonfiction, letters, journalism, or even interviews—is welcome. We are hoping that the contributions will lead to a broader round table discussion among participants and attendees alike.

Please send your sentence and a 250-word proposal (including rank and affiliation) and av requests to Mark Cirino at mc171@evansville.edu AND Suzanne del Gizzo at delgizzos@chc.edu by 15 December 2008. [End Page 167]

Hemingway Sessions at MLA

The Hemingway Society will sponsor two panels at the 2008 MLA, December 27–30, 2008 in San Francisco:

I. Hemingway and Women Writers...