CFP: Justice & the Humanities (11/15; 3/20-22)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:13:36 -0500
If appropriate, please post the following call. Thanks, Chella Courington
The Southern Humanities Council and Huntingdon College present a Conference
on Justice to be held in Montgomery, Alabama, March 20-22, 1998. Plenary
speakers are Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko, author of _Ceremony_
and _Almanac of the Dead_ and African American writer Pearl Cleage, most
noted for her dramas including "Hospice" and _Flyin' West_ . Proposals for
papers, panel discussions, creative writing, and performance work, as well
as sessions, related to the theme of justice, are encouraged. Possible ways
of looking at justice from either a literary, philosophical, or artistic
perspective are through the following issues: race, ethnicity, gender,
class, sexual orientation, ageism, neo-colonialism, multi-national
corporations, difference, due process, religion, teaching, academia, and
activism. As a result, possible topics may include but are not limited to
the following:
* The Geography of Justice
* Representing Justice in the Arts including Film & Video Art
* Nationalism and Its Discontents
* The Civil Rights Movement in the 21st Century
* Court Cases as Cultural Icons
* Justice and the Classroom; Justice and Teaching; Grading; Classroom
and Coercion
* Justice and Academia
* Justice and Activism
Please send 3 copies of a one-page proposal (including audio-visual
requests) postmarked by 15 November to Chella Courington, Huntingdon
College, 1500 E. Fairview Ave., Montgomery, AL, 36106.
For electronic submission, please send proposals to <[log in to unmask]> by
15 November.
Anyone who would like to serve as a respondent and/or chair should also
notify Chella Courington through regular or electronic mail by 15 November.
For further information, see <www.huntingdon.edu/justice>, e-mail
<[log in to unmask]>, call 334.833.INFO, or write Gregory Salyer at the
above address for Huntingdon College.
"When pictures of men with guns are rare, and pictures of men with
strollers are common, we will really be getting somewhere." R.W. Connell,
"Politics of Changing Men."
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