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American Literature Association (ALA)

Future Conferences and Symposia

October 25-27, 2007
ALA African American Literature and Culture Society Symposium
Theme: "Traditions and Revisions: New Directions in African American
Literature and Scholarship"

St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
E-mail queries or 400-500 word proposals by July 30, 2007, to:
Loretta G. Woodard, Conference Director
English and Modern Languages Department
Marygrove College
8425 West McNichols Road
Detroit, MI 48221-2599
(313) 927-1452
lwoodard@marygrove.edu

May 22-26, 2008
19th Annual American Literature Association Conference
Hyatt Regency San Francisco in Embarcadero Center
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA
http://www.americanliterature.org

June 19-21, 2008
The International Richard Wright Centennial Conference
The American University of Paris
http://www.aup.fr/news/special_events/wright.htm

July 24-27, 2008
The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society
Theme: "Toni Morrison and Modernism"
Charleston, South Carolina
Contact: tmsociety@aol.com

Oct. 2 - 4, 2008
ALA Symposium on American Fiction
Savannah, GA
Conference chair: Olivia Carr Edenfield, Georgia Southern University
Contact: carr@georgiasouthern.edu


Two Trains Running, August Wilson

Flyin West, Pearl Cleage

“[T]he function of literature . . . is to remind us of our common humanity and the cost of that humanity.”

Ralph Ellison, “On Initiation Rites and Power”

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston