Next week the University of Dundee will host the 12th Biennial Symbiosis conference, designed to celebrate all areas of Transatlantic literary exchange. Symbiosis is a journal dedicated to the studies of transatlantic literary and cultural relations between the British Isles and the Americas and was established in 1997. This year, speakers will arrive in Dundee from all over the world to present papers that are related to the following three special themes: Bicentenaries: Transatlantic Herman Melville and George Eliot (celebrating the 200th anniversary of their births); comics; Transatlantic Crime Fiction. We would like to extend an invitation to those who wish to attend the plenary presentations. Information on these events is as follows:
Thursday 11th 6-7.30pm, Dalhousie LT1
Professor Faye Hammill (University of Glasgow), ‘The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination.’
Saturday 13th July 4.30-6pm, Dalhousie LT1
Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh)
‘Read. Reflect. Act.: The Untold Story of the Anna-Murray Frederick Douglass Family.’