2008 EVENTS....

Thursday June, 5, 2008.
At Villa Luxembourg
121, Boulevard du Montparnasse
75006 Paris
7.00pm
Meeting of international IRCS delegates

Friday June 6, 2008 - Paris XII -Créteil
At Paris XII-Créteil
Département d'Anglais / Bâtiment I2
Salle 222
61,Avenue du Général de Gaulle
94010 Créteil
Métro-ligne 8: Créteil-Université
9.30-10.00 : Registration and Introduction by Sandra Kleppe and Claire Fabre-Clark
10.00-11.00 Keynote Speech
Randolph Runyon, (University Ohio, USA): “’Beginners’ Luck”
Workshop 11.00-12:30:
Vickie Fachard  (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) “Sign vs. Symbol: The Gift in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral’” 
Enrico Monti  (Université de Haute-Alsace, France/Università di Bologna, Italy)
“From ‘Beginners’ to ‘What We Talk...’: Variations on a Carver’s Story”
Paul Grant, (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College , Canada) “Carver’s Anti-Heroics”
12.30am-2.00pm : LUNCH (La Pointe Jaune)
2.00pm-3.30pm  Workshop
Sandra Lee Kleppe, (University of Tromso, Norway) “Carver’s ‘Baudelaire Sandwich’”
Marie Legrix de la Salle, (Université de Pau, France) « Intervals and blanks in a selection of short stories »
Robert Miltner, (Kent State University Stark, USA) “’A Song of Sixpence’: (Re)Reading Carver’s ‘Blackbird Pie.’”
3.30-4.30 pm  Workshop
Libe García Zarranz, (University of Alberta, Canada) “’Let Them Watch’: Carver’s Hitchcockian Eye and Feminist Film Theory”
Greg P. Lainsbury, (Northern Lights College, Canada)  “Reference ≠ Reduction: Literary Implications of Life in Raymond Carver”
5.00pm-7pm : Cocktail

Saturday June 7th, 2008
At Hôtel Massa
Société des Gens de Lettres
38 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques
75014 Paris
10.00 am-1.00pm Workshop
Françoise Sammarcelli, (Université de Paris IV, France) “’Why would I want a picture of this tragedy?’: the Inscription of the Eye in What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.”
Laetitia Naly (Université de Paris III, France) “Celebrating the moment: the writing of time in Raymond Carver’s ‘TheCalm’”
Philippe Romon (journalist and author, France) "A reading of some letters from the Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver archives"
Claire Fabre-Clark, (Université Paris XII, France)  “Excess and lack : the economy of signs in Carver”

Sunday June 8th, 2008
At 229 rue de Paris
91120 Palaiseau
10 am-12 pm
General meeting of the IRCS
Meeting of the Editorial Committee
Discussion about the 2009 Symposium



2007 EVENTS....
1)  The International Raymond Carver Society  organized a two-day Symposium during the same week as (but not connected to) the MLA in Chicago, December 28-29.  
VENUE: PALMER HOUSE HILTON, CHICAGO
December 28:
"Raymond Carver in International Contexts" roundtable

Highlight from the roundtable: Randolph Runyon and Libe García Zarranz
mesmerised by the other speakers

Raymond Carver: Open Panel
December 29:
Business Meeting
The IRCS held a joint meeting of the officers, advisory board, and members at large. The minutes will be posted in our Archive.

2) The International Raymond Carver Society hosted the panel "Revisiting Raymond Carver's Realisms: 21st Century Perspectives" for the 49th Midwest MLA convention in Cleveland, November 8-11, 2007. 
 
3) The International Raymond Carver Society organized two panels at the 2007 American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 24-27. They were:

Raymond Carver I: Issues of Gender and/or Genre Technique:
Panel 9d: Panelists concentrating intensely on Greg Lainsbury's talk


Raymond Carver II: Epiphany, Performance, and the Visual:
Panel 10b: Panelists pondering Zhenya Kiperman's talk


Please click on the Call for Papers in the menu to find other events.

Note: The IRCS is affiliated with the American Literature Association and has a permanent presence at their annual conference. The next Call for Papers, for the 2009 conference in Boston, will be published in the autumn of 2008.