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2024

May 23-25

4th John Dos Passos Society Conference: 2024
 
Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, Bassano del Grappa, Italy


 

 

 

The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in
Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where
Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of
1918.
All panels will take place in the beautiful Cappella Mares within the Villa’s grounds. It
was from atop the Cappella’s bell tower that Dos Passos would often make landscape
sketches, write in his diary, and compose lines of poetry (which were included in the
“Nights at Bassano” section of his 1922 collection A Pushcart at the Curb). The Villa is
also the home of the Hemingway and Great War Museum, which offers a number of
fascinating displays detailing Hemingway’s ambulance assignment in nearby Schio.
We invite abstracts for twenty-minute presentations dealing with any aspect of John Dos
Passos’s life, works, and/or professional relationships. Comparative approaches are
also welcome. In keeping with the setting and venue, we especially encourage
proposals that relate to Italy, World War I, or the relationship with Hemingway.
For consideration, please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a brief CV to
conference organizers Aaron Shaheen and Rosa María Bautista-Cordero at
Aaron-Shaheen@utc.edu and rosa.bautista@uam.es by February 1, 2024. The
conference language is English.
Nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps, which saw some of the harshest fighting of
World War I, Bassano del Grappa is an hour train ride from Venice’s Mestre rail hub.
Most major cities in the United States and Europe offer daily flights to Venice’s Marco
Polo International Airport. Everything in Bassano, including the Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, is
accessible by foot. Enjoy meandering through the city’s winding medieval streets,
visiting its twelfth-century church, or drinking grappa from its famous covered bridge
spanning the Brenta River.
The conference registration fee is 100 euros for full-time scholars and 50 euros for
graduate students and the general public. The registration fee includes the following:
1. One-year John Dos Passos Society membership
2. Lunch at the Villa on the first day of the conference
3. Admission to the Hemingway and Great War Museum on the Villa’s grounds
4. Guided tour of nearby Monte Grappa, the site of three battles between the Italian and
Austrian armies
5. Certificate of participation
The conference gala dinner, held in the Villa’s eighteenth-century dining hall, is not
included in the conference fee but is offered at a discounted price of 70 euros.

There is no sponsoring hotel for the conference. Hotel accommodation in Bassano must
be made separately by participants. All major travel websites list the city’s many lodging
options.
Graduate students may apply for a travel grant by sending a short letter of motivation
and their full paper to the conference organizers by April 15, 2024. Grants will be
awarded to recipients after the conference.
Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 1, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2024
Registration Fee Deadline: April 1, 2024
Payment for Optional Gala Dinner (70 euros): April 1, 2024
Graduate Student Travel Grant Deadline: April 15, 2024

Biennial Conferences

Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The first biennial John Dos Passos Society conference was a huge success. We brought together speakers from across the United States and various other countries to discuss the importance of Dos Passos’s legacy, his impact on American modernism, and strategies for bringing him into the classroom.

Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

Madrid 2016

Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio

The second biennial John Dos Passos Society conference was a truly international event. It gathered participants from different countries and dealt, among other topics, with Dos Passos´s relationship to Spain.



Fotografía: Jorge Rosenvinge

Lisbon 2018

Lisbon

Third Biennial John Dos Passos Society Conference (June 20-22, Lisbon, Portugal).






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