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INTERNATIONAL WHITMAN WEEK 2010
SEMINAR AND SYMPOSIUM
Università di Macerata, Macerata, Italy, 14-20 June, 2010

The Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA), founded in Paris in 2007, invites students, researchers, and Whitman enthusiasts to participate in its third annual Whitman Week, consisting of a seminar for advanced students interested in Whitman and Whitman's poetry, and a symposium bringing together international scholars and graduate students.

International Whitman Seminar:
"Walt Whitman's Poetry in the 21st Century"
Università di Macerata

Application : 15 non-Italian international students will be accepted to the Week. Applications should include a curriculum-vitae, a one-page statement of interest in the seminar, and a short letter of support by an instructor who knows the applicant. Applications should be sent to camboni at unimc.it  by 4 April 2010 at the latest.

International Whitman Symposium:
"‘In Paths Untrodden': The 1860 Leaves of Grass"
Università di Macerata, June 18-19, 2010

This year's symposium will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Leaves of Grass 1860. It will be devoted to the body of the 1860 Leaves with a particular focus on the many new paths Whitman opened with it.  Papers are invited to cover a wide range of approaches to  Whitman's poems: his experimenting with  multilingualism and textual construction, his focus  on the cohesive  and energizing power of human relationships and attachments, his belief in the creative force of love, language and poetry, his anxieties about the impending civil war. Papers focusing on international responses to the  poems in the 1860 Leaves, including translations into other languages, are also strongly encouraged.

One-page abstracts should be sent to Marina Camboni, Università di Macerata (camboni at unimc.it), Ed Folsom
(ed-folsom at uiowa.edu), and Jay Grossman (j-grossman at northwestern.edu) by 21 April, 2010.