Dates: 22 - 23 March 2012
The Department of English at Texas Southern University will host the Fourteenth Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium, March 22-23, 2012, Houston, Texas.
The general topic for the presentations is “Asian & African Diaspora Literature, History, and Arts.”
Scholarly research and presentations are invited that cover a wide area of interest, including but not limited to the following:
- National and Global Influences
- Exodus Literature: Roads Away, Roads Back
- Lost Generations
- Translations
- Women in Art and Literature
- Following History’s Ariadne’s Thread through the Past
- New Voices in Adopted Languages
- Social Impact and Change
- Literature in New Form—Blogs and Bloggers
- Cyber Art, Cyber Fiction
- The Internet’s Impact
- You Tube as an Expressive Form
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Conflict and Protest Art and Literature
- Post WW II Considerations
- The Short Story
- Expatriate Artists
- Literature and War
- Anti-government art and literature
- Poetic and Artistic Influences
For more information or to submit an abstract to the 2012 McCleary Interdisciplinary Symposium, contact the Department Chair Rhonda Saldivar at 713-313-7667 or Saldivar_rx@tsu.edu. We encourage electronic submissions of abstracts.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: Saldivar_rx@tsu.edu
For submissions: Saldivar_rx@tsu.edu