Mideast Region
Regional director: Jeanne Murray Walker, University of Delaware, jwalker@english.udel.edu
2008 Regional Conference
"The Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation"
October 16-18, 2008
Featuring a Poet's Panel: "The Role of the Poet in Times of Conflict" and readings by each of the featured poets: Claudia Emerson, Chris Mann, and Valzhyna Mort
We are expecting papers in English with a reading time of 15-20 minutes on the role/use of literature in mediating conflict and/or its relationship to Christianity. Conflict can occur at international, national, regional, local, domestic and personal levels. Poetics may be broadly defined to include literary, musical, and artistic works. The scope is not limited to a particular place or time. (Examples: the struggle for Irish identity in Seamus Heaney's poetry, Poet as mediator in Cromwell's Protectorate, Politics and Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Australia.) Student papers will be considered. Papers addressing the work of any of the featured poets are especially welcome.
Full information at http://www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/poetics08
Or contact Stan Galloway /Poetics Conf.
Dept. of English
Bridgewater College
402 E. College St.
Bridgewater, VA 22812 USA
Conferees will be required to join the Conference on Christianity and Literature ($25, students $20, non-US $35)
Sponsored by The Conference on Christianity and Literature, Mideast Region and
Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia (in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley)
2006 Regional Conference
About 50 people attended the Regional Conference at Cedarville University in Ohio in October. The theme was "Incarnation in the Classroom: Mentoring The Next Generation of Scholars, Teachers and Writers," and the featured guest speaker was Dr. Jeanne Murray Walker. For more information, ccontact the conference chair, Dr. Don Deardorff, deardord@cedarville.edu.
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Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)