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Baton Rouge, October 29-31
The Eudora Welty Society invites proposals for its session at the South Central Modern Language Association convention, to be held in Baton Rouge, October 29-31. Papers on any topic are welcome, but especially so are those that engage Welty's life, career, or work in reference to the conference theme, "Displacements/Continuities."
Email inquiries or 500-word abstracts to kordonowy@virginia.edu by 15 March 2009.
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown Atlanta, GA November 6-8, 2009
Type of Session: Affiliated Group (Eudora Welty Society)
Session Name: Welty: The Intersection of Human Rights and the Female Aesthetic
Chair: Rebecca Harrison, University of West Georgia
Session Secretary: Open
CFP Details: As a WPA Junior Publicity Agent, society column writer, and photographer, Welty was involved in the literal process of documenting the socioeconomic culture of the American South. As such, she bore direct witness to racial injustice, gender inequality, and labor disputes. Her experiences with issues of human rights included her witnessing of the civil unrest of the 1950s and 60s. These experiences as a documentarian with the people and the landscape of the world around her—one she loved but couldn’t fully reconcile—influenced her creative work where she questioned and explored the ramifications of conservative attitudes toward gender, race, and ethnicity. On the 100th anniversary of Eudora Welty’s birth, the Welty Society requests papers on the writing of Eudora Welty in its connection to the question of human rights and/or its use and import in her female, creative aesthetic.
Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Rebecca Harrison rharriso@westga.edu by March 15, 2009