The XXV Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference:
October 3-6, 2024
Springfield, Kentucky
The 26th Annual Elizabeth Madox Roberts Conference will coincide with Springfield’s Annual Sorghum Festival, so this year we invite papers focusing on agriculture, tradition, community, and celebration. We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker will be best selling author and Kentucky native Silas House, so papers dealing specifically with connections between his and Roberts’ works will also be encouraged (link to House’s website below).
We continue, however, to welcome any and all papers exploring Roberts and her work through a wide variety of perspectives and lenses (Roberts and other southern writers, contemporaries, Modernists, etc.; regional and historical perspectives; recently published works by Roberts; first-time reader responses; essays of discovery; etc.).
While the vast majority of past submissions have taken the form of conference papers, we would also like to invite proposals for panels and round-table discussions. See Society website (link below) for more details.
Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Paper sessions will be held at the Hampton Inn in Lebanon. Please submit abstracts no later than August 1.
We continue, however, to welcome any and all papers exploring Roberts and her work through a wide variety of perspectives and lenses (Roberts and other southern writers, contemporaries, Modernists, etc.; regional and historical perspectives; recently published works by Roberts; first-time reader responses; essays of discovery; etc.).
While the vast majority of past submissions have taken the form of conference papers, we would also like to invite proposals for panels and round-table discussions. See Society website (link below) for more details.
Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in oral presentation. Paper sessions will be held at the Hampton Inn in Lebanon. Please submit abstracts no later than August 1.
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Email title and proposal to Program Coordinator:
Alex Pennisi (Culinary Institute of America) [email protected] Direct all other conference inquiries to Conference Coordinators: Goretti Benca (SUNY Ulster) [email protected] James Stamant (Agnes Scott College) [email protected] Joseph Curra (SUNY New Paltz) [email protected] |
Additionally, the Bardstown School district is having a Book Drive for Dictionaries/Encyclopedias. Given that we are a literary society, we would like to take this opportunity to make a call for any dictionaries/encyclopedias you may wish to donate.
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