{"id":17501,"date":"2019-10-23T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=17501"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:31","slug":"conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2019\/conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2023 English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Community\/Solitude: The Poetics and Praxis of Life in Transition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 5th<\/sup>, 2023, at 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
\nMay 6th<\/sup>, 2023, at 9:00 am to 4:30 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> for the conference program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021 English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Recuperating Joy: Symbiotic Connections, Optimisms, and Unproblematic Faves
\nMay 8-9, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information visit the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019 English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

April 27-28, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information visit the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014 Prestige of Literature Conference
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October 10-11, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynotes: Dr. James English, University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Lorraine York, McMaster University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference aims to explore the role that prestige plays in the contemporary literary marketplace. James English\u2019s The Economy of Prestige, Gillian Roberts\u2019s Prizing Literature, and Lorraine York\u2019s Literary Celebrity in Canada are prominent examples of recent studies that consider how literary prizes\u2014and debates about prize culture\u2014confer and circulate prestige. English notes that prizes are both \u201ca means of recognizing an ostensibly higher, uniquely aesthetic form of value\u201d and \u201can arena in which such value often appears subject of the most businesslike system of production and exchange.\u201d For example, when Johanna Skibsrud\u2019s novel The Sentimentalists won the 2010 Giller Prize its independent publisher was forced to sell rights to a company that could handle the increased demand for copies. The ways in which authors can become prestigious have proliferated in recent years. A favourable review or interview in a respected publication, being endorsed by another renowned author, or having one\u2019s work selected for a book club broadcast on radio or television\u2014these are just a few of the paths to literature\u2019s elite echelon of celebrated writers. Writers who reach such heights\u2014Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, and Margaret Atwood, for example\u2014have moreover used their prestige to draw attention not just to their own work but to other writers and to particular political causes. In recognition of the many forms and sources of prestige that have not yet been significantly studied, as well as furthering current studies on prestige, participants in this conference will consider how prestige is generated and managed, what it is used for, and how it is contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, visit the conference website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Conference Community\/Solitude: The Poetics and Praxis of Life in Transition May 5th, 2023, at 9:00 am to 7:00 pm May 6th, 2023, at 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Click here for the conference program. 2021 English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) Conference Recuperating Joy: Symbiotic Connections, Optimisms, and Unproblematic Faves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23947,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions\/23947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}