Special Topic Title CEA (3/30-4/1/2017)

deadline for submissions: 
November 1, 2016
full name / name of organization: 
College English Association
contact email: 

International Thomas Merton Society

 

at the

College English Association

 

 

Hilton Head SC—March 30-April 1, 2017

Call for Papers

 

An allied organization of the College English Association (CEA), the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) will be sponsoring one or more panels at the annual CEA Conference next March 30-Apr 1, as well as recommending individual proposals for other concurrent sessions.  Overarching theme of the Conference: ISLANDS

 

Suggested lines of inquiry (but only suggested)

      Islands of Sanity, Solitude, Mercy, Peace (or ???)

      Merton’s No Man Is An Island  or Day of a Stranger

      Islands of Insight

            (Merton’s “The Wild Places” & ecological conscience)

      Celtic Themes

            (Isle of the Blest: “The Navigation of St. Brendan”)

      Merton and Cuba: The Secular Journal

 

You are invited to submit a title and proposal (200-500 words) for a 6-8 page paper (15 minute presentation time) and encouraged to contact Monica Weis SSJ (mweis9@naz.edu) for directions on how to submit your proposal to the CEA data base and how to negotiate your CEA membership ($50) by January 2017

Deadline for electronic proposals is November 1, 2016,

Online submission site: www.cea-web.org   (site opens August 15)

The annual CEA Conference is a wonderfully congenial gathering of 500+ scholar-teachers committed to literature, writing, college teaching, and related fields.