The Dickens Society’s seventeenth annual symposium, business meeting and dinner will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury on the 13th through the 15th of September 2012. Delegates will have the choice of on-campus housing or hotel accommodation in the city of Canterbury.
Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited. Final papers should be readable in twenty minutes. Please send one-page proposals electronically, by attachment, to Malcolm Andrews at m.y.andrews@kent.ac.uk David Paroissien paroissien@english.umass.edu and Cathy Waters c.waters@kent.ac.uk no later than March 31, 2012. Details about accommodation, travel and other pertinent information will be made available in due course at the Dickens Quarterly website < http://WWW.dickensquarterly.org> Scholars at all stages of their career are encouraged to submit proposals, and graduate students may register at a reduced fee.