Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman Tuesday 23rd May 2018 The University of West London.

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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@uwl.ac.uk](mailto:spyconference@uwl.ac.uk){target="_blank"
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##### Conference fees:

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


Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman Tuesday 23

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May 2018 The University of West London.

CfP: Conference &#8220;Representing the British Spy: Fictions, Histories and Futures&#8221;. May 23, 2018 @ The University of West London, UK. Deadline: March 1, 2018.

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CfP: Conference “Representing the British Spy: Fictions, Histories and Futures”. May 23, 2018 @ The University of West London, UK. Deadline: March 1, 2018.