In recent years, the graduate students in the Department of English have held an autumn conference. Students organize the entire conference. A student committee decides on the conference topic, invites the keynote speaker, selects the papers for the conference, and runs the conference itself. Past conferences have included Visiting and Revisiting: Literature as a Special Form of Knowledge (2006), The Elements of Style (2007), Strange Reading: Practice, Audience, Theory (2008), Captive Senses and Aesthetic Habits (2009), and Communicating Forms: Aesthetics, Relationality, Collaboration (2010). This year's conference, entitled Exile on Main Street: Fascism, Emigration, and the European Imagination in America, will be held on November 10–11, 2011.