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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of EDIS, on August 8th-11th, 2013, the University of Maryland and American University will co-sponsor the next international conference in the Washington, DC area. The theme is “Emily Dickinson, World Citizen.” For the CFP inviting papers, panel sessions, performances, pecha kucha, and other kinds of innovative presentations, click HERE.

The conference explores Dickinson’s various forms of belonging. She may have seen “New Englandly,” but as a cosmopolitan reader, she crafted and cultivated numerous affiliations beyond the local. This conference explores her politics, her understanding of citizenship, her engagements with international cultures and influences and theirs with her writings—the global reach of her mind and verse.
The conference events will be held in two lovely sites at the University of Maryland, the newly rebuilt Tawes Building and the Performing Arts Center; housing will be on campus at the university’s Inn and Conference Center.

The conference will take extensive advantage of the many historical and cultural resources in the DC area.


Willard Hotel 1859

Anticipated highlights include high tea at the Willard Hotel, where Emily Dickinson stayed when she visited her Representative father and where Julia Ward Howe wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”; a lecture and/or exhibition, as well as a reception at the National Museum of Women in the Arts; and a dinner and reception at American University. Of course if Emily Dickinson were around today, she would demand we trek over to Maryland's eastern shore for a crabfest somewhere, even if "crab" was apparently not in her lexicon. But "Tortoise" was a term she used almost giddily, so she would surely love "Scarlet Maryland" (a phrase that takes on quite a different meaning now than it did in "When I was small, a / Woman died"). After all, Maryland loves and fears the slow but steady progress of the turtle. Mark your calendars now to celebrate Dickinson and the World that's now writing to her!

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