[ecrea] Call for Papers: Spy Conference

*/Call for Papers/***

*Representing the British Spy:*

*Fictions, Histories and Futures.*

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Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman**

Tuesday 23^rd May 2018

The University of West London.**

 From the Elizabethan courtier and spy Sir Philip Sidney to the graphic 
novel /Kingsman/ and its film adaptations, may be traced a rich 
tradition of individuals, texts and narratives that have spanned 
creative works informed by experience of actual espionage to tales and 
characters shaped by the ever-evolving genre conventions of what has 
become an immensely popular story form. British spy stories have 
featured both gentleman adventurers – in the Erskine Childers, John 
Buchan, Leslie Charteris tradition – and career professionals – such as 
the characters conceived by Ian Fleming and Len Deighton. Their tone has 
ranged across gritty verisimilitude and procedural detail, through the 
melancholy of betrayals and vocational doubts to implausible plotlines, 
kinetic action, and tongue-in-cheek parody. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden, 
John le Carré’s Smiley, Graham Greene’s Wormold and Mike Myer’s Austin 
Powers indicate some of the variety of ways in which the British spy has 
been represented. Real-life spies such as Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and 
Sidney Reilly, /inter alia, /have figured in narratives such as /Another 
Country, A Question of Attribution, /and/Reilly, Ace of Spies/ that 
combine – to varying degrees – documented fact with speculation and 
invention.

This one day conference at the University of West London in Ealing aims 
to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines including, but 
not limited to, Literature, History, Film, Cultural Studies, 
Cyber-security, Politics and International Relations.

Deadline for proposals:

Proposals for papers (250 words) plus a short biographical statement, 
should be received by _Thursday 1^st March 2018_. Please email 
(spyconference /at/ uwl.ac.uk) <mailto:(spyconference /at/ uwl.ac.uk)>

£45 – including morning coffee, lunch, and an evening drinks reception

Conference fees:

(including morning coffee, lunch, and an evening drinks reception) - 
£45, Students/unwaged £25.

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