Orchestrating Hemingway
Composer Michael Daugherty (michaeldaugherty.net
American Literature Association 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017
Boston, MA
http://americanliteratureassociation.org/
The Ernest Hemingway Society will sponsor two panels at the upcoming ALA Conference:
Hemingway & War
Kirk Curnutt
Kirk Curnutt is professor and chair of English at Troy University's Montgomery Campus. He is the author of Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement (2000), Coffee with Hemingway (2007, with a preface by John Updike), and the forthcoming A Reader's Guide to Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. He has served on the board since 2005.
Verna Kale
Verna Kale is Assistant Research Professor in English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.
Stolen Elk Horns Returned
Anita Thompson has returned the trophy elk horns that her late husband, the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, stole from Hemingway’s house in Ketchum, Idaho, over 50 years ago. As a young journalist in 1964, Thompson traveled to Idaho to write about Hemingway’s suicide and, taken with the antlers, left with more than a story. Thompson remained embarrassed and remorseful about the theft and, in early August, his widow contacted the Ketchum Community Library in order to make preparations to return the trophy, which has been given to Seán Hemingway.
Exhibit on Hemingway and the Veneto
At Misericordia University, an exhibit on “Hemingway and the Veneto” will run until December 10th. The exhibit, which is on loan from Venice International University, will feature various photographs focused on the writer and his attachment to no
Writers' Retreat in Hemingway's Wyoming
The inaugural “Hemingway’s Wyoming” retreat, which was launched by Darla Worden, recently ran from 12-14 August. Similar to her Left Bank Writers Retreat in Paris, workshop participants renew their creative energy by learning about how place—in this case, sites in Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains—influenced Hemingway's writing. Worden's
The Deep South in the Global South
"An Interdisciplinary Conference"
Sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, English Graduate Student Association
April 6-8, 2017 at The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
Paris in 2018!
XVIII International Hemingway Conference
HEMINGWAY IN PARIS
“Paris est une fête” . . . Hemingway's Moveable Feast
JULY 22-28, 2018
Conference Co-Directors: H. R. Stoneback & Matthew Nickel
Paris Site Coordinators: Alice Mikal Craven & William E. Dow
Host Institution: The American University of Paris