WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY: ACTIVITIES AT 1996 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION WASHINGTON, DC, 27-30 DECEMBER 1996 This year's Modern Language Association annual convention will take place 27-30 December in Washington, DC. As usual the dates fall between Christmas and New Year's and, as usual, the William Morris Society in the United States has organized several events:   Sessions of Papers SESSION 306 - William Morris the Critic I: Art and Literature 7.15-8.30pm, Saturday, 28 December, Woodley Room, Sheraton Washington Presiding: Corinne McCutchan, Lander University "Socialist, Orientalist, and Imperialist? William Morris and the 'Eastern' Question of Indian Art" Peter Hoffenberg, Dept. of History, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa "Morris and Browning" Bonnie J. Robinson, North Georgia College "William Morris, Photography, and Frederick H. Evans" Mark Poland, Art Dept., DePaul University "The Morality of Architecture: William Morris as Critic" Hartley Spatt, Maritime College, SUNY SESSION 679 - William Morris the Critic II: Politics and Literature 10.15-11.30am, Monday, 30 December, Marshall Room, Sheraton Washington Presiding: Pamela Bracken Wiens. Southern Nazarene University "'How We Live and How We Might Live': Morris on Environmental Degradation and Capitalism and the Importance of his Prophetic Vision" David Gross, University of Oklahoma "Jews from Nowhere: The Utopian Novels of William Morris and Theodore Herzl" S. I. Wisenberg, Midell School of Journalism, Northwestern University "News from Nowhere as Key to Morris's Criticism: William Morris's War on Repressive Progress" Alex Shishin, Kobe Women's University "Communist Appreciations of Morris's Literary Legacy" Michelle Weinroth, McGill University   Social Event Members are also invited to a reception held to celebrate the twenty-fifth issue of the distinguished journal Victorian Literature and Culture. This will be held 5.15-6.30pm, Sunday, 29 December, in the Marshall Room, Sheraton Washington. For further information contact: Mark Samuels Lasner Biblio@aol.com. HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · SITE MAP · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 4 JAN 2001 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER@MORRISSOCIETY.ORG