Call For Papers! Deadline June 3, 2011

Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians

October 6-8, 2011
Loyola University Chicago

An academic conference addressing the literary, philosophical, and theological influences that converge in the works of American writer Flannery O’Connor.

Committed speakers include:
Ralph Wood; Susan Srigley; William Sessions; Stephen Schloesser, S.J.; Steve Watkins; Hank Edmondson; Christina Bieber Lake; Avis Hewitt; Mark Bosco, S.J.; Ben Alexander; Leo O’Donovan, S.J.; and John Desmond

Proposals for 20-minute presentations should focus on particular thinkers upon whom O'Connor drew directly (such as Sophocles, Dostoevsky, Chardin, Barth, Niebuhr, Bouyer, Adam, Mauriac, Maritain, Gilson, Guardini, Voegelin, D’Arcy, Lynch, Ong) or figures whose works help illuminate hers today (such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Habermas, de Lubac. Balthasar, Rahner, Blondel, Benedict XVI).

Send 250-word abstracts to Mark Bosco S.J., at mbosco@luc.edu, or to Roxanne Y. Schwab, at RSchwab@lindenwood.edu, by Friday, June 3, 2011. If you need audio-visual support, please note that on your abstract. Responses will be emailed in July 2011.
Web Site: www.loyolaoconnorconference2011.com

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