24th Ezra Pound International Conference

Tuesday 5th - Saturday 9th July, 2011

The 24th Ezra Pound International Conference will be held in London, the city where Pound spent the pivotal years of 1908 to 1920 and a place that figures prominently in his work. The site of the 2011 meeting, sponsored in collaboration with the Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, will be Senate House, Bloomsbury, London. A prestigious facility in an ideal location for Poundians, Senate House has excellent meeting rooms and an experienced, efficient staff. In addition to four days of papers and panels on Pound and others’ work, special events tentatively planned are for walking tours of Pound’s Kensington and Pound’s Bloomsbury, as well as visits to the Courtauld Gallery and the Tate. Additional plans include a reception in Fleet Street, a reading of contemporary poetry related to Pound, the conference banquet, and a two-day excursion after the meeting (10-11 July) to sites in Sussex and Kent, including possible visits to Stone Cottage, Henry James’s Lamb House, and the homes of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf.

The committee invites proposals for papers on any aspect of Pound’s interaction with London, and/or the English cultural tradition in general.

Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes delivery time. Send proposals (250 words) via e-mail or mail to:

Professor John Gery (jgery@uno.edu), 24th Ezra Pound International Conference, Department of English, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148-2315 USA

To be sure to receive registration information and details about lodging and excursions, please write to the above.