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

[Karey Perkins <kareyperkins AT gmail.com>]

Hello fellow Percy lovers!

Hope all of you are doing well!  

I’ve seen many of you at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference over the years, and last year, I even saw some of you virtually!  It’s always a wonderful experience to congregate and talk about Percy with people who know him…. And this year, it looks like we may be back in person (depending on the course of the pandemic!).  

If you are interested in presenting a paper on Walker Percy this November in Atlanta, see the Call for Papers below.  For more information on SAMLA and this year’s conference, see the links provided below as well.

Stay safe and healthy!

Karey

Karey Perkins, M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English

296A Turner Hall, South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, SC 29117

kperkin1 AT scsu.edu | 803-536-7016

www.scsu.edu 
Member, Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX  79409-0002

kareperk AT ttu.edu | http://www.pragmaticism.net

 

Walker Percy CFP for SAMLA 93

November 4-6, 2021, Atlanta, GA

Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center

https://samla.memberclicks.net/

https://samla.memberclicks.net/samla-93-calls-for-papers 

“Walker Percy: Networking, Distancing, and More”

Papers for this traditional 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 93 conference theme: Social Networks, Social Distances.   How are Percy’s novel’s characters networked and connected, or conversely, distanced and alienated, whether socially or other ways, such as existentially?  Percy also wrote extensively on the human capacity for language, or “symbol-mongering,” as he called it.  Percy’s semiotic viewed human communication as a “tetradic event,” one that is necessarily a social event, requiring a community of speakers, with these themes pervasive in his novels as well as his philosophy, his scientific research, and his other interdisciplinary research.  

Please send 300-word abstracts on these topics or any aspect of Percy’s fiction or non-fiction by June 21, 2021, to Dr. Karey Perkins, South Carolina State University, at kperkin1 AT scsu.edu or kareyperkins AT gmail.com. Please also include a brief bio and any A/V requirements in your abstract.