Call for Papers

“The Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation”

October 16-18, 2008

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Guest Speakers are:

Claudia Emerson, United States Chris Mann, South Africa Valzhyna Mort, Belarus

Pulitzer Prize winner 2006 Thomas Pringle Award 2007 Crystal of Valenica Award 2004

We are accepting proposals for 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.

Random Examples:

the artist as spokesman for peace

the struggle for Irish identity in Seamus Heaney’s poetry

the Soviet poet as mediator

the poet as conscientious objector in World War Two

the poet as mediator in Cromwell’s Protectorate

politics and poetry in Nineteenth-Century Australia

poetry as personal conflict therapy

Confessional poets' use of diction

Student papers will be considered.

Papers addressing the work of any of the featured poets are especially welcome.

Send 100-word abstracts to lit-conf@bridgewater.edu or

Stan Galloway /Poetics Conf.

Dept. of English

Bridgewater College

402 E. College St.

Bridgewater, VA 22812 USA

Submission accepted until all sessions full or July 1, 2008, whichever comes first.

( 12 spaces still available as of last update 15 May.)

Conferees will be required to join the Conference on Christianity and Literature ($25, students $20, non-US $35)