Representatives from the Classics Colloquium were not present when the meeting was called to order, so the council considered the Graduate English Conference first. While the relationship between science and literature may seem more apparent in contemporary literature, the conference also encourages paper from the Early Modern Period.
All departments are welcome to submit proposals.
The conference primarily draws participants from UVA, although other schools do participate, and provides students with a low-stress environment to present their work. This year, the keynote speaker will be Franco Moretti, from Columbia University. The conference will request funding from other departments. Moretti applies scientific models to literature, i.e. Darwinism, etc. They want to be the last group to fund.