{"id":6552,"date":"2025-03-14T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T20:38:04","slug":"registration-opens-for-roth-updike-conference-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/03\/14\/registration-opens-for-roth-updike-conference-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Registration opens for Roth-Updike conference in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6554\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-14-at-1.43.44\u202fPM-300x255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-14-at-1.43.44\u202fPM-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-14-at-1.43.44\u202fPM-353x300.png 353w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-14-at-1.43.44\u202fPM.png 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Philip Roth and John Updike societies announced that registration is now open to participate in a joint conference to be held in New York City, Oct. 19-22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The conference celebrates a literary friendship-rivalry and publication anniversaries of Roth&#8217;s <em>The Prague Orgy<\/em> (40th), <em>Sabbath&#8217;s Theater<\/em> (30th), and <em>The Human Stain<\/em> (25th), and Updike&#8217;s first &#8220;Talk of the Town&#8221; column (70th), <em>Of the Farm<\/em> (60th), <em>A Month of Sundays<\/em> (50th), <em>Rabbit Angstrom<\/em> (30th), <em>Gertrude and Claudius<\/em> (25th), and <em>Still Looking<\/em> (20th).<\/p>\n<p>Participation is limited to 100, and papers\/moderators will be accepted on a rolling basis.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/03\/Roth-Updike-announcement.pdf\">Roth-Updike announcement<\/a>\u00a0for details on the call for papers and also newly added information about conference and hotel registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philip Roth and John Updike societies announced that registration is now open to participate in a joint conference to be held in New York City, Oct. 19-22, 2025. The conference celebrates a literary friendship-rivalry and publication anniversaries of Roth&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/03\/14\/registration-opens-for-roth-updike-conference-in-nyc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,4,92,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8th-biennial-roth-updike-conference","category-calls-for-papers","category-conferences","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}