LONDON CALLING: LAWRENCE AND THE METROPOLIS
THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL D.H. LAWRENCE CONFERENCEJULY 3-8 2017

London played a crucial role in Lawrence’s early life: he taught here, got his firstliterary breaks here, and even got married here in 1914. It was in London that he met
the friends and patrons who launched his career and facilitated his travels, andwhenever he and Frieda returned to England, it was to London that they came first.
Lawrence visited London around fifty times - for the first time in October 1908 for hisinterview for a teaching position in Croydon, and for the last time in September 1926.
Over those eighteen years he visited or lived in London in every single year, apart fromduring his travels in 1920-22.
He saw the city grow from seven to eight million people, and become the metropolis
we know today, with its buses, trams, private cars, bridges, Underground stations,West End theatres, and electric street lights. He knew London as it was approaching thehistorical peak population; this was followed by decline, and which has only just (in2015) been exceeded.
He knew the London of the Edwardian period, of the War, and of the jazz age. Heknew middle-class outer-suburban Croydon, but also some of London’s most
fashionable districts, where his friends lived: Hampstead (Edward Garnett, Dollie
Radford and Catherine Carswell), St. John’s Wood (Koteliansky), Mecklenburgh
Square (H.D. and Richard Aldington), and Bedford Square (Lady Ottoline Morrell).
London was the legal, as well as the literary, artistic and theatrical, centre of England.
In 1913 Frieda’s divorce hearing was heard there; in 1915 Lawrence was examined forbankruptcy at its High Court; in the same year The Rainbow was tried at Bow Street
Magistrate’s Court; in 1927 David was produced at the Regent Theatre; in 1928
Catherine Carswell oversaw the typing of part of Lady Chatterley’s Lover there; in1928 Lawrence explained ‘Why I Don’t Like Living in London’ in The Evening News;and in 1929 his paintings were exhibited at the Warren Street gallery and impounded.
Given his hatred of London’s intellectualism and authoritarianism, and his objections
to metropolises in general, it is not surprising that much of what Lawrence writes about
London is negative. But, as he admitted in 1928, ‘It used not to be so. Twenty years
ago, London was to me thrilling, thrilling, thrilling, the vast and throbbing heart of alladventure.’
For such a nodal city - the world’s biggest city, the heart of the world’s biggest empire,
and a centre of international modernism - it has a peripheral place in his work and inwork about him. But Lawrence could not have become the person and writer he did
without having known his native capital city.
The 14th International D. H. Lawrence conference will be held in London at theCollege of the Humanities, Bedford Square, and nearby venues. It is authorized by theCoordinating Committee for International Lawrence Conferences (CCILC) andorganized in collaboration with the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America and theD. H. Lawrence Society (UK).
The conference welcomes papers on topics including but not limited to:

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Lawrence’s experiences of, and/or reactions to, London and its various socialgroups and geographical districts
Lawrence’s relationships with individual Londoners
Lawrence’s interactions with London-based journals and publishers
The suppression of The Rainbow
The premiere of David in London
Lawrence’s exhibition of paintings at the Warren Street Gallery
Works written by Lawrence while he was resident in London
Lawrence’s responses to and thoughts about cities in general

Papers are welcome from Lawrence scholars, graduate students, and the public.
Papers should last no longer than 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes ofquestions. They will be presented in a panel together with two other papers.
If you would like to contribute, please send an abstract of up to 500 words to theExecutive Director, Dr. Catherine Brown: catherinelawrencelondon@gmail.com
by midnight on 15th September 2016 (unless you are a graduate student who wishes
to apply for a Graduate Fellowship, in which case please follow the alternative
procedure described below). Submissions will be assessed by the Academic Program
Committee detailed below, and responses will be issued by 31st October 2016.
The abstract should include the following information as part of the same file (ineither MS Word or pdf format):§§§§

Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address
The name of the institution (if applicable) at which you are registeredYour CV (1 page condensed version)
Please indicate if you need OHP or other such media equipment for yourpresentation.

The Conference Fee is expected to be approximately £280-320 for the week.
The Conference website may be found here: http://dhlawrencesociety.com/home/14thinternational-d-h-lawrence-conference-london/
Graduate Fellowships
Six Graduate Fellowships are available for Graduate Fellows.
A Graduate Fellowship covers fees, and efforts will be made to make cheapaccommodation available.
Graduate Fellows will be required to help with registration and other duties during theConference.
If you would like to apply for one of these, please fill out the Graduate Fellowship
Application form below, or click here [insert hyperlink].

This competition will be assessed by the Graduate Fellowships Committee chaired byDr. Andrew Harrison. Submissions are to be sent tolawrencegraduatefellowship@aol.com by 15th September 2016.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Executive Director
Catherine Brown
Conference Treasurers
Bethan Jones and Kim Hooper
International Liaison and Assistant Treasurer
Jonathan Long
Conference Webmaster
Joseph Shafer
Conference Designer
Stephen Alexander
Conference Tour Director
Maria Thanassa
Conference Awards Organizer
President of the DH Lawrence Society of North America
Graduate Fellowships Committee Chair
Andrew Harrison
Accommodation Director
Ted Simonds
Conference Consultants
Nancy Paxton and Betsy Sargent
Academic Program Committee
International:
Australia:
David Game, Christopher Pollnitz
Canada:Betsy Sargent, Laurence Steven
France:Ginette Roy
Germany:
Christa Jansohn, Dieter Mehl
Italy:
Simonetta de Filippis
Japan:
Masashi Asai
Montenegro: Marija Krivokapic
South Korea: Doo-Sun Ryu

South Africa: Dawid de VilliersSweden:
Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion
USA:
Holly Laird, Nancy Paxton
British:Michael Bell
Howard Booth
Catherine Brown
David Ellis
Andrew Harrison
Bethan Jones
Sean Matthews
Sue Reid
Neil Roberts
Jeff Wallace

LONDON CALLING: 14TH INTERNATIONAL DH LAWRENCECONFERENCE JULY 3-8 2017
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION FORM
In order to encourage the participation of younger scholars at ‘London Calling: The
14th International D. H. Lawrence Conference’ in London, the organizers are offering
six Graduate Fellowships as described below.
All advanced graduate students who submit abstracts for presentation at theconference are invited to apply for one of these Graduate Fellowships. Applicantsshould be currently enrolled in Ph.D programs, or else have recently graduated, bewriting dissertations on Lawrence or related subjects(s), and have had their abstracts
accepted by the London Academic Program Committee. Conference registration fees
will be waived for students in receipt of these Fellowships. Fellows will be required toprovide several hours of administrative assistance during the Conference. Six
Graduate Fellowships will be offered, with one reserved for the Conference
Webmaster (already established). The competition will be judged by a panel ofinternational Lawrence scholars chaired by Dr. Andrew Harrison of the University ofNottingham. Final decisions will be based on the strength of the abstract, its relevanceto the themes outlined in the call for papers, and the candidate’s ability to contributeskills needed by the conference organizers. To apply for one of these awards, please
send the completed application form below to lawrencegraduatefellowship@aol.com
by September 15th, 2016. Successful applicants will be announced by October 31st,2016.
NAME:EMAIL ADDRESS:TELEPHONE NUMBER:POSTAL ADDRESS:CURRENT OR MOST RECENT INSTITUTION, AND DEPARTMENT:CURRENT OR MOST RECENT LEVEL OF STUDY:DISSERTATION TITLE:EXPECTED OR ACTUAL GRADUATION DATE:RELEVANCE OF D.H. LAWRENCE TO YOUR RESEARCH:PROPOSAL FOR PAPER AT CONFERENCE (max. 500 words):
ANY MULTIMEDIA EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR PRESENTATION:PAST EXPERIENCE OF ORGANISING/ASSISTING WITH CONFERENCES:CONFERENCE-RELATED TASKS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR INTERESTTO YOU: