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September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016</big> | September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016</big> | ||
The 2016 Norman Mailer Society Conference is scheduled for September 28, 29, 30, and October 1 on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. | |||
The Society has arranged for 40 rooms to be blocked for conference attendees. The conference hotel (the closet to the university) is the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 294 Highway 36 East, West Long Branch, NJ 07764. Be Sure to Book Early! You may reserve a Standard Room by calling (732) 542-1234. Use the group booking code NMS when you reserve your room. The cost per night is $79 plus applicable taxes. A free Express Start Breakfast Bar is included. Reservation Cut-Off date is August 28, 2016. NMS Block Rooms remaining after this date will be released for general use. | |||
* 2016 Individual Registration Fee: $125 | |||
* 2016 Student Registration Fee: $ 50 | |||
* 2016 Guest Fee $ 30 | |||
Use the following convenient form to pay one of the amounts above, or go to our PayPal page to pay another amount. Specify what you’re paying for in the “Special Instructions” box. | |||
All Panel and Roundtable Presenters and Moderators must be members of the Norman Mailer Society. Each Presenter and Moderator must pay the respective registration fee listed above. Each Presenter and Moderator may bring a “guest” who must pay a Guest Fee of $30. The “guest” does not have to be a member. | |||
If someone who is not a presenter or moderator and attends the conference, that person must be a member, must pay the respective registration fee, and can have a “guest” who must pay a Guest Fee of $30. The “guest” does not have to be a member. If someone attends the conference alone and does not bring a “guest,” that person must be a member and must pay the respective conference fee. GUEST is defined as a spouse, brother/sister, mother/father, friend, companion, anyone… | |||
{{notice|Only 2016 Norman Mailer Society Members (and LIFE members) will receive a copy of the 2016 issue of ''The Mailer Review'' (a $25 value).}} | |||
==Press Release== | |||
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – (Sept. 16, 2016) – The Norman Mailer Society, in partnership with Monmouth University’s Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will hold its 14th annual conference on campus from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. Barbara Mailer Wasserman, Long Branch native and sister of the late Norman Mailer, will provide the keynote address, “Mailer Roots in Long Branch.” Also included in the conference will be a reading by Monmouth Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Alex Gilvarry from his upcoming novel, Eastman Was Here and a performance of the one-woman play, A Ticket to the Circus, by Bonnie Culver, based on the memoir of Mailer’s wife, Norris Church Mailer, performed by K.C. Leiber. | WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – (Sept. 16, 2016) – The Norman Mailer Society, in partnership with Monmouth University’s Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will hold its 14th annual conference on campus from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. Barbara Mailer Wasserman, Long Branch native and sister of the late Norman Mailer, will provide the keynote address, “Mailer Roots in Long Branch.” Also included in the conference will be a reading by Monmouth Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Alex Gilvarry from his upcoming novel, Eastman Was Here and a performance of the one-woman play, A Ticket to the Circus, by Bonnie Culver, based on the memoir of Mailer’s wife, Norris Church Mailer, performed by K.C. Leiber. | ||
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==Call for Papers== | |||
We are pleased to announce that the 2016 Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held in Norman Mailer’s hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey at Monmouth University in cooperation with the University’s English Department and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Monmouth English Department Chair Susan Goulding (goulding [at] monmouth [dot] edu) and Society President J. Michael Lennon (jmlennon1 [at] charter [dot] net) are the program co-chairs. Please email both with ideas for panels, papers or special events. | |||
We are pleased to announce that Barbara Mailer Wasserman, a Long Branch native, will be the keynote luncheon speaker on October 1. | |||
To accommodate all presenters, paper presentations should be no longer than ten minutes. Full papers can be made available to those interested, of course, and submitted for possible publication in the ''Mailer Review'' or Project Mailer. Two or three papers (four, maximum) will be presented in one-hour time slots, with the remaining time going to participant discussion and audience questions. Panels will also run for one hour, as will most video screenings the same. Please indicate media needs in your proposal. All proposals should be sent to Professor Goulding and Professor Lennon by June 1. Please contact them with questions and ideas. | |||
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