CFP--Andalusia in Andalusia: An International Conference on Flannery O'Connor

Event Details

End: March 1, 2017
Contact: HankCenter@luc.edu
More Info: http://luc.edu/ccih/stories/archive/oconnorinandalucia.shtml

22-25 June 2017
Universidad Loyola Andalucía
Seville, Spain
 
Call for Papers
 
Submission deadline: March 1, 2017
 
The conference Andalusia in Andalucía: An International Conference on Flannery O'Connor will investigate the international standing of American writer Flannery O'Connor, with special focus given to the reception of her work among Spanish translators and scholars. In its broadest vision, the conference encourages papers that put Spanish Baroque aesthetics into conversation with the literary aesthetics of Flannery O'Connor's work.
 
Possible themes for conference papers and panels include, but are not limited to:
 
  • The Catholic Baroque and the Literary Grotesque
  • O'Connor and the Spanish Mystics: Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross
  • O'Connor and Ignatius of Loyola: An Ignatian Imagination?
  • O'Connor and Baroque Painting: El Greco to Velazquez
  • The Quixotic Flannery O'Connor
  • O'Connor's South and the Global South
  • The Mystery and Manners of Spanish Arts and Letters
  • O'Connor and Federico Garcia Lorca
  • The Politics of Faith: Al-Andalus to Franco
  • Spanish Authors Roundtable
  • Spanish Translators Roundtable
General registration for the conference will be $100USD, while graduate students can register for free. Six travel scholarships will be awarded.
 
 For more information about the conference, please visit: http://luc.edu/ccih/stories/archive/oconnorinandalucia.shtml
 
Submit a 500-800 word abstract to: andalusia.in.andalucia@gmail.com.