Louisville 2025 Call for Papers

Louisville 2025 Call for Papers

“Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.

Potential topics include:

  • Spiritual crises and formal experimentation
  • Mysticism and the Avant-Garde
  • Spirituality and the body
  • Modernism and non-Western faith
  • Rituals and subversion
  • Gender, spirituality and modernism

Deadline for submission of proposal is 5 October 2024.

Please plan for a presentation of no more than twenty minutes. Submit proposal by email to jdecker@icc.edu

Include two attachments in pdf, rtf or doc format:

  1. The first attachment should consist of a 300-word abstract (double-spaced and titled), omitting all references to the submitter.
  2. The second attachment should contain a cover page that includes the following information:
    • Name as it will appear in the program
    • Address (preferably home address)
    • E-mail address (necessary to confirm your acceptance)
    • Academic affiliation, if applicable
    • Title of paper/work (as it will appear in the program)
    • National origin/genre of work(s) discussed (please be specific)
    • Personal biographical note (100-150 words)

The 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 will be held at the University of Louisville, February 20-22, 2025.

Please see the conference’s official website for additional information.