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  • From: Henry Mills <wppdirector AT gmail.com>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [percy-l] "STILL LOST IN THE COSMOS: Walker Percy & the 21st Century" Conference, Oct. 11-12, 2013
  • Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:34:59 -0400

Dear Percy-L:

For those who aren't aware of it, below is an announcement for the October 11-12, 2013, Walker Percy Conference to be held at The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University, New Orleans.  This information comes from http://www.loyno.edu/wpc/call-papers-2nd-biennial-walker-percy-conference.

A conference schedule, descriptions of the panels, and participant biographies are available at this link as well as details about the one-person performance by Tom Key of his stage play, Lost in the Cosmos.

Best regards,

Henry Mills
Director, The Walker Percy Project


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Description of Conference:
Inspired by Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos, the second biennial Walker Percy Conference seeks to explore the themes and issues generated by Percy’s lively analysis of the modern condition. In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tom Bartlett said of the book: "...an indescribable concoction of hard facts and wild imagination, a parody of self-help books (sort of), a philosophy textbook (kind of), and a collection of short stories, quizzes, diagrams, thought experiments, mathematical formulas, made-up dialogue, ridiculously long chapter titles, and a few David Foster Wallace-worthy footnotes."

Walker Percy has many special ties to Loyola, including his brief stint on the faculty in the 1970s, when he “discovered” the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and then helped to excerpt it for Loyola’s well-respected literary magazine, New Orleans Review.

Keynote Speaker: Paul Elie
Among other things, he is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, a biography of four American Catholic writers: Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk; Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker; Flannery O'Connor, a "Christ-haunted" Catholic; and Walker Percy, a medical doctor who wrote fiction and philosophy. To learn more about Paul Elie, you can go to:
http://www.loyno.edu/wpc/paul-elie-keynote-speaker 
http://www.georgetown.edu/news/paul-elie-storycorps.html
http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/paul-elie

Stage play performance of Lost in the Cosmos
A one-person performance by Tom Key of Lost in the Cosmos will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 6 pm in Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall, Loyola Campus. For Theatrical Outfit, Key has adapted two Walker Percy books, The National Book Award Winning Novel, The Moviegoer (2001, “A comic gem,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution); and Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Selp-Help Seminar (1996, “An hilarious tour de force,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution). Tom Key is best known for his performance of Cotton Patch Gospel, a one-person play inspired by Dr. Clarence Jordan’s paraphrase of the New Testament who set the story of Jesus in the American South. Information about purchasing tickets to the performance will be available soon.

Please direct any questions to:
Dr. Mary McCay, Director: email wpc AT loyno.edu
Rhoda Faust, Administrative Assistant: (504) 864-7041, email wpc AT loyno.edu






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