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  • From: Karey Perkins <kareyperkins AT gmail.com>
  • To: Karey <kareyperkins AT gmail.com>, "Henry P. Mills" <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] CFP for Walker Percy session at SAMLA 2019 conference Nov. 8-10
  • Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:32:34 -0500

Hi Henry,

I sent this to the listserv — did it go through? Is my email address updated?

Thanks,
Karey

> On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:24 PM, Karey Perkins <kareyperkins AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Call for Papers for a Walker Percy Session at the South Atlantic Modern
> Language Association’s November conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The
> conference theme is “Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships” and more
> detail about the theme and the conference can be found at this link:
> https://samla.memberclicks.net.
>
> Papers for this session may focus on any aspect of Walker Percy’s life and
> works, either fiction or non-fiction. Especially welcome are topics
> relevant to the SAMLA 91 conference theme: “Languages: Power, Identity,
> Relationships.” For Percy, the human capacity for language and for naming
> gives us our identity and is only possible through relationships of
> intersubjectivity. Percy wrote extensively on language, creating his
> “radical anthropology” based on his unique semiotic, with these themes
> pervasive in his novels. Please send 300-word abstracts by May 15, 2019, to
> Dr. Karey Perkins, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism,
> kareyperkins AT gmail.edu. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V
> requirements in your abstract.
>
> Karey Perkins
>
>





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