Rhonda,
Thanks for letting us know that several members of the listserv will
be presenting at the conference. Since the conference begins
tomorrow, I hope any in attendance who belong to Percy-L will
consider giving a report, or even better if several of you do. I'm
certain the 125+ members of the list would appreciate any thoughts
you might have to share.
For those unable to attend but are interested, here is the speaker
panel list:
http://www.loyno.edu/wpc/still-lost-cosmos-conference-panels
Best regards,
Henry
On 9/4/13 11:52 PM, RHONDA MCDONNELL
wrote:
Several list members are scheduled to present. It should be a
fascinating time!
Sent from my iPad
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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Henry Mills, Director & Editor <br />
The Walker Percy Educational Project, Inc.<br />
http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy (web)<br />
wppdirector AT gmail.com (email)<br />
828/301-1891 (voice)<br />
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