MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT 2005 MLA WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT THE 2005 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, 27-30 December The Morris Society will hold two sessions at the 2005 Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, DC: Wednesday, 28 December, Session 250 Places and Spaces: Mapping the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic 1:45–3:00 p.m., Coolidge Room Chair: Hartley Spatt Chris Kierstead, Auburn University: "Morris and the Spatial Poetics of Europe." Adrienne Sharpe, Bard College: "'The Great Story of the North': Morris and Co.'s Interpretations of Norse Legends for an American Project, Vinland, ca. 1883." Cliff Garner, University of North Texas: "Morris and Bloomsbury." Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, University of Virginia: "Morris, Hopkins, and Thingspace." Friday 30 December, Session 757 Morris and Modern Theories 1:45–3:00 p.m., Eisenhower Room Chair: Florence Boos Rosie Miles, University of Wolverhampton: "Morris's Poetry: (Hyper)Text and Desire." Martin Danahay, University of Texas at Arlington: "Toward a Postmodern Theory of Production: Baudrillard, Marx, and Morris." Richard Kaye, Hunter College of the City College of New York: "William Morris, F. Holland Day, and the Invention of an Aestheticist-Decadent American Publishing Tradition, 1893-1899." Annual Meeting & Dinner Petits Plats 2653 Connecticut Avenue NW, 202-518-0018 Wednesday, 28 December 7:00 p.m. All members (and guests) are welcome to join us for the Society’s annual meeting, to be held over dinner. We shall have a private room at Petits Plats, a cosy French restaurant near the Woodley Park Metro and within walking distance of the Marriott Ward-man Park Hotel. Come for a good meal, fellowship, and a chance to discuss the Society’s plans. Prix ?xe dinner will be $30/person. Please rsvp to MARK SAMUELS LASNER so we know how many will attend, 302-831-3250, marksl@udel.edu. MLA topics for 2006 and 2007 In order for interested members and others to plan ahead, we are also announcing session topics for 2006 and 2007: 2006: "Morris and Gender" (masculinities, "new" and old women, eroticism, Victorian reformism) and "Pre-Raphaelitism and the World of Victorian Art." 2007:, "Morris as Metatext: Editions/Printforms/Illustrations" and "The Pre-Raphaelite Family." HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · JOURNAL · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 10 DEC 2005 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER @ MORRISSOCIETY.ORG