HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01039 4/1/01 "APRIL 2001 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ================================================================ F Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:10:49 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for April Earlier today I posted Hardy's "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town" and "An Upbraiding" as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for April, 2001. This discussion will be the fifth in a series dedicated to Hardy poems with female narrators. I invite your contributions to a month-long, on-line conversation about these two Hardy lyrics, each of which might be imagined to be spoken by a version of Hardy's wife, Emma. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://netforum.ilstu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/ths/a/1/ Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called NetForum which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you like, and finally submit your contribution by clicking on the button labeled Post the Message. (*DON'T use the Reset Message button*; you will lose your work.) If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of NetForum. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. While the discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)] and while the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems as well as those concerning "Channel Firing" (January), "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses" (March), "After the Visit" and "To Meet, or Otherwise" (May), and "A Singer Asleep" (July), are currently being edited for publication, the discussions of "Nature's Questioning" (January), "The Mother Mourns" (February), "The Subalterns" (March), "The Lacking Sense" (April), "In a Wood" (May), and "To Outer Nature" and "June Leaves and Autumn" (June), "Wagtail and Baby" and "On a Midsummer Eve" (July), "Afterwards" (August), "Shut Out That Moon" (September), "The Last Chrysanthemum" and "The Year's Awakening" (October), "The Night of the Dance" (November), and "The Dark-Eyed Gentleman" (December), "She At His Funeral" and "Her Confession" (January), "Tess's Lament" and "The Pine-Planters" (February), and "The Pink Frock" and "The Beauty" (March) are still open, and your contributions are invited. Welcome to the April 2001 TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== From: "Patrick Roper" Subject: Visiting Hardy sites Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:14:21 +0100 Hardy enthusiasts from other parts of the world wanting to visit Britain in the near future will find a searchable, regularly updated database of what is open at this British Tourist Authority website: http://www.open.visitbritain.com/ Many of the better known Thomas Hardy sites are listed. Patrick Roper ========== " Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:24:35 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: VIRUS WARNING Dear Listmembers, Especially Birgit, If you receive a message from the following e-mail address do not open the attachment which contains a virus. Fortunately our fire-wall caught it. The sublect line contained the words "Re Kimberlin." Betty Cortus ========== Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:45:22 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: VIRUS WARNING Thank for confirming this Betty. I tried to open it but couldn't -- the Yale server had blocked it (fortunately). I hope no one caught it! Cheers, Rosemarie ========== From: "David Clark" Subject: RE: VIRUS WARNING Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:08:50 +0200 Dear All, Please excuse the virus which was sent out under my name yesterday. I don't know where it came from, but apparently sent attachments to addresses in my inbox.I was up all night last night cleaning the "worm", and have spent mostof today sending (and receiving) apologies from people similarly affected. I hope nobody has been affected by this - I apologise most sincerely but must stress that I honestly had no knowledge that the virus was on my HD. I checked with my Anti-Virus who say that it is new (as of 14th April) but is easily cleaned. If anybody is affected and needs help, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me at dclark@udc.es. All best wishes, David ------------- Dr. D.M. Clark Dept. de Filoloxia Inglesa Fac. de Filoloxia Campus de Elvina A Coruna Coruna 15071 Spain ========== Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:30:26 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: RE: VIRUS WARNING Dear David, Thanks very much for letting us know what happened. Sorry to hear that you were victimized in this way. All the best, Betty ========== Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:12:43 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: RE: VIRUS WARNING Thanks David -- much appreciated. Deepest commiseration and good luck with the "worm"! (Coruna eh? hmmmm....Spanish Fly?) Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:48:31 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Announcement Greetings! To add to my note the other day about conferences & the Brontes, I've just received from Oxford University a copy of their "Summer Programme in English Literature" (July 1-Aug 11) and notice that this includes a course on the Brontes. Email: Jacqueline Darvill: ipenglit@conted.ox.ac.uk Cheers, Rosemarie ========== Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:29:39 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: CFP s: Dear List Members, This CFP is forwarded, with permission, from the VICTORIA List. Betty >CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON BIOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY > >The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and >_Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ announce a _Biography_ Special >Issue and Life Writing Prize on the topic Biography & Geography. > >The winter 2002 issue of _Biography_ will explore Biography and Geography. >Issue editor Miriam Fuchs invites papers that address the topic with the >widest possible latitude, opening the subject to various applications, >interpretations, and interdisciplinary theorizing. Submissions may for >instance focus on life writing in a specific region or at a specific site. >They may explore ways that geography as the study of the earth's surfaces >and divisions is relevant to forms of life writing. Or they can explore >landscapes and topographies as metaphorical constructs pertinent to life >writing issues and modalities. > >Submissions may investigate the theoretical, historical, generic, or >cultural dimensions of any form of life writing--biography, autobiography, >oral history, group history, diaries, travel writing, and so on--and may >arise from any discipline (or disciplines) in the humanities, natural >sciences, arts, social sciences, or professional schools. Authors do not >need a current academic affiliation. > >$1,000 AWARD. One submission will be selected as the recipient of the >International Life Writing Prize for 2001. In addition to publication in >the Special Issue, the winning author will receive $1,000. > >Submissions should be double spaced and ideally between 3,000 and 10,000 >words. A double-blind submission policy will be followed: authors' names >should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. An accompanying cover letter >should contain the authors' names and addresses. > >All entries will be considered for both the Prize and for publication. > >DEADLINE for receipt of entries: September 1, 2001. > >For more information, or to submit an entry, contact the > >Center for Biographical Research >University of Hawai'i at Manoa, >Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822; >tel./fax: (808) 956-3774 >biograph@hawaii.edu ========== Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:09:13 -0400 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:TTHA BYLAWS R A NOTE: To all TTHA Members: a revised version of TTHA Bylaws has replaced the 1998 version and is now online. Grateful thanks to Professor Robert Schweik and TTHA's Directorial Board for dealing so patiently with this painstaking task, and special thanks to Birgit Plietzsch for her invaluable networking assistance. Cheers, Rosemarie Morgan President ==========