Langston Hughes Society Luncheon 2009 Information
Modern Language Association Panels 2008
PANEL I (Saturday, December 27, 2008, 3:30 - 4:45
p.m., Hilton, San Francisco)
Langston Hughes, American Intellectuals, and the Loss of Civil Liberties
in
the McCarthy Era: National Repercussions
Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society
Presiding: Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State Univ.
1. "Langston Hughes's 'Literary Sharecropping' during the Cold War,"
Sharynn Owens Etheridge, Claflin Univ.
2. "American Hysteria, Civil Liberties, and the Literary Left: Langston
Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry,"
Kara Fontenot, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
3. "Hughes's Scottsboro Literature: Toward Socialist Postraciality,"
Benjamin T. Foster, Southern Illinois Univ.
4. "Langston Hughes and the High Cost of Free Speech," Renita
Lorden, Los Angeles, California
For copies of abstracts, visit www.langstonhughessociety.org.
PANEL II (Sunday, December 28, 2008, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m., Hilton San Francisco)
Langston Hughes, American Intellectuals, and the Loss of Civil Liberties
in
the McCarthy Era: Global Dimensions
Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society
Presiding: Leonard Slade, SUNY, Albany
1. "The Spanish Civil War, Race, and the McCarthy Era in the Poetry
of Langston Hughes,"
Char Prieto, California State Univ., Chico
2. "'Spies and Spiders': Langston Hughes, Agnes Smedley, and the
Cold War in Asia,"
Etsuko Taketani, Univ. of Tsukuba
3. "Standing Together to Face Giants: African Diaspora Culture and
the Cold War,"
Cedric Tolliver, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Executive Committee
Dellita Martin-Ogunsola
LHS President
Foreign Language and Literatures
University of Alabama, Birmingham
dellita@uab.edu
Sharon Jones
LHS Vice-President
Wright State University
sharon.jones@wright.edu
Sharynn Owens Etheridge
LHS Secretary-Treasurer
Claflin University
setheridge@claflin.edu
