Preliminary Information
We are now able to post some preliminary information about the IAUPE conference in Rome in July 2023. As previously announced, the Medieval Symposium will take place on Monday 10 July, and the main conference will run from Tuesday 11 July through until Friday 14 July. The final event will be a conference dinner in the evening of Friday 14 July at the Grand Hotel Gianicolo. The Medieval Symposium will take place at the Villa Maria campus of Australian Catholic University, Largo Giovanni Berchet, 4, Rome, 00152. This is located in the Trastevere district of Rome. The main conference will be split between the ACU campus and the Hotel Ripa, Via degli Orti di Trastevere, 3, Rome 00153. Parallel sessions will take place at the Hotel Ripa, which has a suite of well-equipped seminar rooms, while plenary sessions and receptions will be held at the ACU campus.
Registration & Pricing Information
Registration fees have been set in Euros, but because of international finance regulations relating to the conference bank account, they will need to be processed in Australian dollars. Currency conversion rates have been calculated at 1 December 2022.
Full IAUPE Conference Registration Fee:
“Early Bird” (until 31 March 2023): 300 Euros (460 Australian dollars). (NB: Because of the Easter holidays, the window for the “Early Bird” registration fee has been extended by two weeks, until 14th April)
(from 15 April 2023 until 7 July 2023): 350 Euros (540 Australian dollars)
Onsite registration: (from 10 July 2023): 375 Euros (580 Australian dollars)
Conference fee covers buffet lunches, tea, coffee and coach transfers between venues
Medieval Symposium Registration Fee:
(until 7 July 2023): 75 Euros (115 Australian dollars)
Onsite registration (10 July 2023): 90 Euros (140 Australian dollars)
Conference fee covers buffet lunch, tea and coffee
Optional Extras (see further details under “Social Programme” tab):
Conference dinner.
Friday 14th July (evening). Conference dinner at the Grand Hotel Gianicolo, Viale delle Mura Gianicolensi, 107, Rome 00152.
100 Euros (153 Australian dollars)
Excursion.
Saturday 15th July. Half-day (9 am to 4pm approximately) excursion to the Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) at Tivoli, 20 miles from Rome. Includes guided tour and lunch.
For further information on the Villa Adriana, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Villa
100 Euros (153 Australian dollars)
Other optional tours will be advertised on the IAUPE website nearer to the time of the conference.
Please continue here to our registration page.
Partner Participation
Partners of IAUPE members attending the conference (or the Medieval Symposium) are welcome to join the Conference Dinner on Friday 14th July and/or the excursion to Villa Adriana on Saturday 15th July on payment of the appropriate fee (see conference registration page for details). They are also welcome to participate in the walking tours of Saint Basilica di Trastevere on Monday 10th July and/or the Capitol Hill and the Coliseum on Wednesday 12th July free of charge.
Partners wishing to attend panel sessions in the conference programme, including lunches and receptions, should register for the conference separately. IAUPE membership requirements will be waived in these instances.
Accommodation
Special conference rates are available until 30 April 2023 at the Hotel Ripa, through the promocode IAUPE23. Rates are 160 Euros for a double room, 140 Euros for a double room for single use. https://www.hotelriparoma.com/en/ Other accommodation options: Grand Hotel Gianicolo. Viale delle Mura Gianicolensi, 107, Rome 00152. A four-star hotel close to the ACU campus https://www.grandhotelgianicolo.it/en/index.html Casa Virgen del Pilar, Via Alessandro Poerio, 51 D – Rome 00152. A clean and comfortable guesthouse run by nuns close to the ACU campus. Charges range between 65 and 90 Euros per night, breakfast included. Further information about the conference will be posted on this website as it becomes available.
Speakers & Sessions
Confirmed plenary speakers for the conference are the eminent medievalist, James Simpson, who is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard; the librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Richard Ovenden, author of the recent highly praised Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack; and Jette Hansen Edwards, professor of applied English linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an expert on the rise of global English.
There will also be a plenary session on the future of English Studies, led by Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter), and other conversations with contemporary authors, including the celebrated Waanyi (Indigenous Australian) writer Alexis Wright, whose new novel Praiseworthy is scheduled for publication in April 2023. We are also planning a conference reception and dinner, and other optional leisure activities in Rome. Rome has never before hosted the IAUPE conference (though it did meet in Venice in 1965), and we think this event next year will offer the opportunity for a vibrant and timely conference at a time of multiple challenges for English studies all across the world
Proposing a Paper
In line with the procedure for previous conferences, there will be a number of special sections organized by designated coordinators, who will be responsible for the selection of panel participants. Normally, each section will sponsor two panels, each of 90 minutes duration, which will allow for two or three presenters to participate in each panel. IAUPE members who are interested in speaking at the conference are invited to contact the relevant section chair (or chairs) by 30th September 2022, enclosing a short abstract (around 200 words) of their proposed paper. We anticipate finalizing the conference programme by 15th November, so as to allow ample time for travel arrangements to be made.
Section Chairs
The section chairs for IAUPE 2023 are as follows:
Section 1. Old English Language and Literature
Daniel Anlezark (The University of Sydney):
Section 2. Middle English Language and Literature
Helen Fulton (University of Bristol):
Lawrence Warner (King’s College, London):
Section 3. Early Renaissance Literature
Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona):
Section 4. Shakespeare
Gordon McMullan (King’s College, London):
Section 5. Late Renaissance and Milton
Richard McCabe (Merton College, University of Oxford):
Section 6. The Long Eighteenth Century
Dorothee Birke (The University of Innsbruck):
Peter Sabor (McGill University, Montreal):
Section 7. Romanticism.
William Christie (Australian National University):
Simon Haines (Ramsay Centre, Sydney):
Section 8. The Long Nineteenth Century.
Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter):
Section 9. Early American Literature
Laura Stevens (University of Tulsa):
Carmen Birkle (University of Marburg):
Section 10. American Literature after 1900.
Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State University):
Section 11. Modern Literature
Janice Pilditch (University of Waikato):
Sabine Volk-Birke (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg):
Section 12. Literary Theory
Ingo Berensmeyer (University of Munich):
Mark Byron (University of Sydney):
Section 13. Sociolinguistics and Language Studies
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo):
Section 14. Bibliography and Textual Criticism
Grace Ioppolo (University of Reading):
Paul Eggert (University of New South Wales, Canberra):
Section 15. Digital Humanities
William Kretzschmar (University of Georgia):
Peter Stokes (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris):
Section 16. Australian Literature.
Igor Maver (University of Ljubljana):
Philip Mead (Univ. of Melbourne/Univ. of Western Australia):
Section 17. Contemporary World Literatures in English
Liliana Sikorska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan):
For proposals relating to the Medieval Symposium, to be held on Monday 10 July 2023, please contact one of the section chairs for Old English Language and Literature or Middle English Language and Literature, as given above. Further information on the Medieval Symposium can be found here.
Conference Organizers
Planning Committee
- Paul Giles (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne)
- William Christie (Australian National University)
- Philip Mead (University of Western Australia/University of Melbourne)
- Stefania Nuccorini (Universita degli studi Roma Tre)
Conference Assistants
- Conference Coordinator: Jason Smeaton (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne). <> Email here.
- Ruggero Bianchin (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
- Giulia De Luca (Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
- Benedikt Gnosa (Bonn University, Germany)
- Silvia Pettini (Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
As you will know, Murray McGillivray has regrettably recently had to resign from the role of IAUPE Secretary General and Treasurer on the grounds of ill health. IAUPE wishes Murray well, of course, and thanks him for his service. Kathleen Harrington, who has recently retired from the US Air Force Academy () has been appointed Interim Secretary General and Treasurer until the Rome conference in July 2023. Preparations for the Rome conference itself are not affected.