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   Call for Papers   
   C. S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates: Questions of Identity   
   2 & 3 June 2011, Lille Catholic University, France.   
      
   Although certain aspects of C. S. Lewis's work have been studied in great   
   detail, others have been comparatively neglected. In this international   
   conference, the first of its kind to be held in France, we hope to look at   
   Lewis's life and work, and those of his friends and associates, from many   
   different angles. Questions of identity are essential to the understanding   
   of any writer. The ways authors perceive themselves and who they are, the   
   communities they belong to by birth or choice, inevitably influence their   
   work. The way they present other people, real or fictional, may also be   
   rooted in their own conception of identity. We are therefore seeking for   
   papers which examine gender and family roles, national, regional, racial   
   or professional identities, membership of a particular church, movement or   
   club, ideological or political attachments, descriptions of oneself (eg.   
   dinosaur, Old Western Man) either with regard to Lewis and those who knew   
   him or in a study of their writings. Among Lewis's friends and associates   
   we would include his brother Warnie, his wife Joy, J.R.R.. Tolkien,   
   Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers, T.S. Eliot, Ruth Pitter and Owen   
   Barfield, but would also consider studies of anyone who worked with Lewis   
   or who influenced him. Comparative studies of Lewis and another writer are   
   also possible.   
      
   Please send propositions for papers (200 to 300 words) to Suzanne Bray   
   (suzanne.bray@icl-lille.fr) by June 15, 2010. Papers may be given in   
   French or English. Academic Panel: David Downing (Elizabethtown College,   
   Pennsylvania), William Gray (University of Chichester), Suzanne Bray   
   (Lille Catholic University).   
      
      
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