Call for proposals - College Language Association

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in Languages
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interdisciplinARYStudies
Literatures
POSSIBLE THEMATIC KEYWORDS FOR PAPER, PANEL, ROUNDTABLE, WORKSHOP (partial list):
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HUMANITIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: TOWARD A NEW ERA TO INTERPRET
AND T EACH L ANGUAGES AND L ITERATURES
INTERPRETING CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS BEYOND CULTURAL AND LITERARY
THEORY AND CRITICISM
POSTCOLONIALISM, DE-COLONIALITY, AFRO-DECOLONIALITY,
AFRO-EPISTEMOLOGY, AFRICANA CRITICAL THEORY: THEORIES OF LIBERATION
AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN DE-COLONIALITY THROUGH LANGUAGES, LITERATURES,
AND F ILMS
AFRICAN/DIASPORA DE-COLONIALITY THROUGH SELF-REPRESENTATIONS IN
MANUALS, MUSIC, FILMS, ART, LANGUAGES, LITERATURES
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Send Individual and Panel Proposals to:
Dr. Jervette Ward ( ENGLI S H AR EA R EP R ES EN T AT I V E)
FROM FRANCE TO FRANCOPHONIE: DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES,
AND F ILMS
AFRO-GERMAN TEXTS FOR THE BEGINNING, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED
GERMAN-LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
AFRO-GERMAN STUDIES: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
DIVERSITY IN THE AFRICAN/DIASPORA IMMIGRANT WORKS:
LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, EUROPE, U.S.
DIALOGUES BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN AND THE U.S.-CROSS APPROACHES OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC THROUGH NICOLÁS GUILLÉN AND
LANGSTON HUGHES
APPROACHES TO THE WORKS OF JAMAICA KINCAID AND DAVID MILLS
(For Allied Organizations listed below and CLA Standing Committees ONLY)
Dr. Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper
Englishrep@clascholars.org
Dr. Matthew Pettway ( FOR EI GN LANGUAGES Ar ea R EP R ES EN T AT I V E)
Foreignrep@clascholars.org
Convention Location
Vicepresident@ clascholars.org
Deadline S e pt e m b e r 15 , 2 0 16
STONEY CREEK HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER 2601 South Providence Road, Columbia, MO 65203
CLA Convention rates: (THROUGH MARCH 8, 2017) Deluxe King: $89 | Double: $89 | Expanded Queen: $89 | Expanded Bunk Bed: $125
ONLINE RESERVATIONS: www.StoneyCreekHotels.com | 1 (800) 659-2220 toll free, or 1 (573) 442-6400 | Fax: 1 (573) 219-5116
Host Institution
UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI Columbia, MO
2017 Banquet Speaker
Jamaica Kincaid,
Send Special Session Proposals to:
2017 Langston Hughes Society Luncheon Speaker
David Mills, p o e t / d r a m a t i s t
wri ter
COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
www.clascholars.org
The Langston Hughes Society
The Middle Atlantic Writers Association
The Zora Neale Hurston Society
The Richard Wright Circle
The Charles W. Chesnutt Association
The Alice Childress Society
The Georgiana Simpson Society
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
The College Language Association, founded in 1937 by a
group of Black scholars and educators, is an organization
of college teachers of English and foreign languages,
which serves the academic, scholarly, and professional
interests of its members and the collegiate communities
they represent. Since 1957 the Association has published
the CLA Journal , a quarterly publication featuring
scholarly research and reviews of books in the areas of
language, literature, linguistics, and pedagogy.
MEMBERSHIP FEES
(January 1st - December 31st)
Individual $90
Student $55
Life $1000
Retiree $55
Institutional $200
CONVENTION FEES
(includes banquet)
PRE-REGISTRATION $140
Students/Retirees $125
ON-SITE REGISTRATION $160
Students/Retirees $145
Pay online at www.clascholars.org OR mail all fees to:
Elizabeth J. West, Treasurer, P.O. Box 453, Stone Mountain, GA 30086
Email: Treasurer@clascholars..org
MEMBERSHIP DUES SHOULD BE PAID BY FEBRUARY 1, 2017 FOR PARTICIPANTS’ NAMES TO APPEAR ON THE PROGRAM.