Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Karey Perkins <kareyperkins AT gmail.com>]

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
> 
>