O'Connor Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, Etc.
Call for Papers
*REVELATION AND CONVERGENCE: FLANNERY O'CONNOR AMONG THE PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIAN (Conference)
October 6-8, 2011
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO- An academic conference addressing the literary, philosophical, and theological influences that converge in the works of American writer Flannery O'Connor.
Committed Speakers include; Ralph Wood; Susan Srigley; William Sessions; Leo O'Donovan, S.J.; Farrell O'Gorman; Hank Edmondson; Christian Bieber Lake; Avis Hewiit; Bruce Gentry; and John Desmond.
Proposals for 20-minute presentations should focus on particular thinkers upon whom O'Connor drew directly (such as Sophocles, Dostoevsky, Chardin, Barth, Niebuhr, Bouyer, Adam, Mauriac, Maritain, Gilson, Guardini, Voegelin, D'Arcy, Lynch , Ong) or figures whose work helps illuminate hers today (such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Haberman, de Lubac, Balthasar, Rahner, Blondel, and Benedict XVI).
Send 250-word abstracts to (mbosco@luc.edu) Mark Bosco, S.J.
*STARTLING FIGURES: A CELEBRATION OF THE LEGACY OF FLANNERY O'CONNOR (Conference)
APRIL 13-16, 2010, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia
Writers: Marianne Boruch, Kathryn Stripling Byer, E. L. Doctorow, Tom Franklin
Scholars: Gary M. Ciuba, Sarah Gordon, W.A. Sessions, and Carol Schloss
Musicians: Dave Perkins and Friends
Artists: Chris Lawson and Joe DeCamilis
CALL FOR PAPERS: Send abstract of approximately 500 words to Dr. Bruce Gentry, Department of English and Rhetoric, Campus Box 44, GCSU, Milledgeville, GA 31061 by the postmark deadline of 1 Nov. 2010.
Anyone interested in serving as a session chair should send a resume to Gentry at the same address.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE PRESENTING FULL INFORMATION BY JANUARY 2011:
http://www.gcsu.edu/startlingfigures
*CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE 1900
THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, KY
FEBRUARY 19-21, 2009
Organizers welcome an eclectic mix of O'Connor topics and are especially interested in papers on iconography, de Certeau's "practice of everyday life," and notions of the posthuman and cyberfiction as they touch O'Connor Studies. Send 500-word proposals by email attachment to: jacqueline.zubeck@gmail.com or avis.hewitt@gmail.com.
Deadline for the proposals is Friday, 12 September 2008.
Call for Papers
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
Each year the RMMLA conference includes a session dedicated to the work of Flannery O'Connor. We are looking for papers with new and exciting insights to be presented at the conference this year in Snowbird, Utah.
Paper presentations will be 15 minutes in length for this panel.
Please submit a 300-word abstract of your paper. Please include a separate cover sheet with the following information: 1) your name, 2) institutional affiliation if applicable, 3) mailing address, 4) phone number, 5) email address, 6) title of paper, 7) AV equipment needs and 8)any other special needs.
Submissions should be emailed as Word attachments to Ann Pelelo at ann.pelelo@clarke.edu by 5 pm Central time on March 1, 2009. Notification of acceptance will occur on March 15, 2009.
More information about the conference can be found at
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf09Snowbird/default.asp
SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND CULTURE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
APRIL 8-11, 2009
Contemporary Southern literature remains a growing area for further/future discussion(s) and criticism(s) within the context of society. This CFP seeks contributors offering a wide variety of interpretations and criticisms of contemporary Southern literature and culture against the backdrop of popular culture and postmodern society, although other approaches are also solicited. Presentations covering a broad range of Southern literature pieces, critical approaches, and cultural interpretations are welcome; presentations should be developed for a 15-minute reading.
Please submit a no more than a 250-word abstract to Dr. Christopher Bloss, Area Chair, by November 30, 2007. Contributors will be notified by email within two days of submission. The conference takes place April 8-11. Please submit an email abstract (Word or RTF only) to: chris.bloss@gmail.com. (Please provide title of paper, school affiliation (if any), email address, and phone number. These will only be used in case we absolutely need to contact you.)
Graduate students are encouraged to apply. This is not simply a forum for seasoned professionals, although they are also welcome, but a place to experience the art of presentation in a comfortable environment. Information about hotel reservations and conference registration may be found at the conference web-site. Check the conference web-site as the time grows closer at http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php
For the full H-NET announcement, please point your web browser to: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=163462
REASON, FICTION & FAITH: AN INTERNATIONAL FLANNERY O'CONNOR CONFERENCE
SPONSORED BY THE POETICS AND CHRISTIANITY PROJECT OF THE
PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY CROSS
ROME, ITALY
APRIL 20-22, 2009
For more information, please contact:
Father John Paul Wauck, Co-Director
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
wauk@usc.urbe.it
Dr. Henry T. Edmondson, III, Co-Director
Georgia College & State University
hank.edmondson@gcsu.edu
Call for Papers
FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S CIVIL WARAMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
THE FLANNERY O'CONNOR SOCIETY
BOSTON, MA
MAY 21-24, 2009
The annual meeting of the American Literature Association will be held in the Boston Back Bay Westin Copley May 21-24, 2009.The Flannery O'Connor Society will again sponsor two sessions:
1. Invited panel: "Slow Reading O'Connor's 'A Late Encounter With the Enemy.'"2. "Flannery O'Connor's Civil War" (in conjunction with broader notions of "Wars and Rumors of Wars in O'Connor's Work.")
Please submit proposals on military aggression and soldiering in O'Connor's fiction - from Hazel Motes, the Greeleaf twins, Tom T. Shiflett, and Chauncey Shortley, to her use of Holocaust images in "The Displaced Person." Biographical inquiries might address her friendships with John Sullivan and Robie Macauley, her cartoons regarding the WAVES housed on the campus of GSCW during her years there, as well as her father's zealous interest in his WWI experience and leadership of a veterans' group. Analyses of "A Late Encounter With the Enemy" will be particularly welcomed.
Send 500-word proposals to Robert Donahoo by Monday, January 19, 2009.
If you have any information concerning a conference, workshop, or event related to O'Connor, please feel free to contact us.
