Encountering Malta III
‘Literature and the Sea 1750-1850’
An International Conference
hosted by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta
and the School of English, University of St Andrews
Venue:
University of Malta Valletta Campus
Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 March 2016
Call for Papers
—But the sea, Jack, the sea —
John Keats
Located at the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta has been a destination for writers and travellers since ancient times and particularly so during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Focusing on the period 1750-1850, twenty-minute papers on any aspects of the conference theme, Literature and the Sea will be welcome. Papers on writers who actually visited Malta are welcome, but this is not an exclusive requirement.
Please email a 200-word paper proposal to Professor Nicholas Roe and Dr Maria Frendo. Deadline for paper proposals is 29 January 2016. Acceptances will be confirmed by 5 February 2016.
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