2014 Annual General Meeting
October 10-12, Montréal, Québec
Mansfield Park in Montréal: Contexts, Conventions and Controversies
The Québec, Montréal Region invites you to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mansfield Park by exploring its various contexts (historical, social, literary, moral) and its relationships to other cultural works while debating some of the contentious issues revealed in contemporary readings of this important novel.
Our AGM will be held over the Columbus Day/Canadian Thanksgiving weekend: Friday, 10 October to Sunday, 12 October 2014. We usually enjoy glorious late-summer weather at this time, with our trees still largely green and our city still in full, colourful bloom – but we could also have blazing Fall colours, or even snow flakes.
Our hotel, the beautiful Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel, is centrally located in downtown Montréal just steps from major shopping, hundreds of restaurants, cafés, bars and bistros, two universities and several museums, and an easy walk (or bus or métro ride) to most cultural and recreational attractions in the city.
Montréal is a world-class tourist destination renowned for vibrant cultural life, French joie de vivre, Old World history and charm, New World edginess, many affordable bistros, cafés, bars and clubs, non-stop festivals of music, theatre and film, the mighty St. Lawrence river, and the modest Mount Royal for which our city is named. Montréal’s history as a major colonial outpost and British garrison town in Jane Austen’s time will provide yet another context for exploring a novel that raises issues of both empire and individual responsibility.