On another topic, the deadline for our Twain/Tolstoy conference has been extended to April 16. Please let me know if you have any questions about this event. Talking to several Twainiacs and a few gifted Tolstoy scholars (Tolstivists? Devotoys?) I think we've got something here, and we want you to be a part of it. Spread the word to your colleagues, graduate students, barbers, or domesticated animals, as you see fit. Sincerely yours, Alex Effgen >CALL FOR PAPERS ON MARK TWAIN/LEO TOLSTOY >THE EDITORIAL INSTITUTE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY >ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY SCHOLARS, CRITICS AND WRITERS >BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS >AUGUST 20-22, 2010 > >The Editorial Institute at Boston University--in coordination with >the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers--invites >academic faculty, independent researchers, editors, conservators, and >graduate students working on Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy to submit >abstracts for a conference analyzing the parallel lives and legacies >of both authors on the centennial of their passing. > >The following themes are to be considered for panel topics. >Submissions can concentrate on one or both of the authors, and on any >of their works: > >The International National Epic >The Veneration of Location (in Print or in Mortar) >Between the Lines: Libraries and Marginalia >Editing Literary Executorship >Twain, Tolstoy, and the Testaments >Imperial Rejection, Political Reception >Lost in Translation: Tolstoy in English, Twain in Russian >Censorship Uncensored >Twain and Tolstoy in the Twenty-First Century > >For questions, please contact Alex Effgen at the Editorial Institute >([log in to unmask]). To contribute, please send a short curriculum >vitae and 300-word abstract to the above email by Friday, 16 April >2010. Mr. Alex B. Effgen, M.A. Boston University