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The Committee of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 2024

The current officers of the Society and members of the Executive Committee are listed here.

Annual General Meetings

A copy of the minutes from the 2024 AGM is available to members on request to the Secretary. Contact Hugh Epstein.

 

The Joseph Conrad Society (UK): Anti-Racism Statement

Available here

 

Conference Addresses

2014

Keith Carabine's closing address as Chair, titled ‘Conrad in my Life’, was presented in Canterbury on 4 July 2014.

 

Awards and Citations

2022

Tung-An Wei received the 2022 Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award for her essay, A Tale for Two Readers: Conrad’s  “The Tale” (The Conradian, Spring 2022).

Yael Levin was awarded joint first prize in the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies for Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (OUP 2020) with Lissa Schneider, Jeffrey Mathis McCarthy, and John G. Peters (eds.) for Conrad and Nature (Routledge 2019). The second prize was awarded to Helen Chambers for Conrad’s Reading: Space, Time, Networks (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). Hugh Epstein was awarded third prize for Hardy, Conrad and the Senses (Edinburgh 2019). John G. Peters received honourable mention for Conrad’s Drama: Contemporary Reviews and Observations (Brill/Rodopi 2019).

2021

The Seal of Approval by the Committee of Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association of America has been awarded to A Set of Six (2021), edited by Allan H. Simmons and Michael Foster, with Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles and Allan H. Simmons.

2020

Professor Allan H. Simmons and Professor John G. Peters are the recipients of The Ian P. Watt Award for Lifetime Achievement in Conrad Studies. The citation issued by the Executive Committee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America is available here

2018

Andrew Francis was awarded joint first prize in the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2018 for Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction (CUP 2015), with Nidesh Lawtoo for Conrad’s Shadow (Michigan 2016). The third prize was awarded to Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson, eds. for Conrad and Language (Edinburgh 2016). 

2017

Robert Hampson has been awarded the Ian P. Watt Prize for Excellence in Conrad Scholarship from the Joseph Conrad Society of America.

2016

Robert Hampson has been awarded first prize in the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2016 for Conrad's Secrets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

2015

Jay Parker received the 2015 Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award for his essay, '"He was one of us": Rortyan Liberal Ethnocentrism and Ironic Narrative Voice in Conrad's Lord Jim'.

2013

The Shadow-Line (2013), edited by J. H. Stape and Allan Simmons, and Under Western Eyes (2013), edited by Roger Osborne and Paul Eggert, have been awarded the Seal of Approval by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions.

Richard Niland's Conrad and History (Oxford 2010) has been awarded joint first prize in the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies 2013. View the full citation at the Joseph Conrad Society of America Awards page.

2011

Keith Carabine was awarded the 2011 Ian P. Watt Prize for Excellence in Conrad Scholarship from the Joseph Conrad Society of America. View full citation here.

Andrew Purssell received the 2011 Young Scholar of the Year Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America: Joseph Conrad Today 37:1 (Spring 2012) announcement.

 

Obituaries

Josiane Paccaud-Huguet French Conrad scholar and speaker at many UK conferences, Professor Emeritus, University of Lyon.

Don Rude (1936-2023) American Conrad scholar devoted supporter of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

Cedric Watts (1937-2022) Conrad scholar, Professor Emeritus, Sussex University, and long-serving member of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

J. Hillis Miller (1928–2021) distinguished literary critic and theorist

ZdzisĹ‚aw Najder (1930 – 2021) Conrad scholar, historian, and political activist

Paul Kirschner (1932–2020) Conrad scholar, Professor Emeritus Queen Mary College, University of London, and former Vice-Chairman of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

Claude Maisonnat (1945-2019) Conrad scholar and great friend to the French and U.K. Joseph Conrad Societies

Thomas Moser (1923 - 2016) Conrad scholar and Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

J.H. Stape (1949 - 2016) Conrad scholar and General Editor for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad

Gerald Morgan (1925-2015) Conrad scholar and Professor Emeritus (Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, Canada)

Mario Curreli, Conrad scholar and long-standing member of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)

Jacques Alexandre Berthoud, Conrad scholar and chairman of the British section of Amnesty International (1979-81)

Alan Bernard Heywood Kenny, the second editor of the journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) (1979-83)

 
 

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