Calls For Papers and
Conferences
The Langston Hughes Society
Special Session: The Relationship Between Music and Literary Works by Langston Hughes
2011 College Language Association Convention
Host: the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Host Hotel: The Spartanburg Marriott Hotel at Renaissance Park in Spartanburg, SC
Conference Dates: April 6-9, 2011
The Langston Hughes Society welcomes papers that examine the relationship between music and literary works (poetry, drama, fiction, and/or nonfiction) by Langston Hughes. Papers which explore jazz, blues, gospel, hip hop, and other forms of musical expression relevant to literary works by Langston Hughes are encouraged. All individuals with accepted proposals must join the Langston Hughes Society and the College Language Association. Please email an abstract (300-400 words) and a biographical profile (3-5 lines) to Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones at sharon.jones@wright.edu by August 30, 2010.
Modern Language Association 2011, session #272.
Links provide abstracts as they are available.
Satire, Wit, and Humor in the Works of Langston Hughes
12:00 - 1:15 p.m., Friday January 7, 2011
Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott
Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State University
“‘Go Home and Write a Page Tonight’: Subversive Irony and Resistant Reading in ‘Theme for English B’,” Daniel Charles Morris, Purdue University, West Lafayette
“When Music Fails as a Universal Language: The Human Violin in Langston Hughes’s ‘Home’,” Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University, Columbus
“A Global Perspective of Jesse B. Semple: Echoes of ‘Bop’ in Ankara Turkey,”
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman College
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm
November 5-7, 2010, Loews Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia (exact time and location for this session is forthcoming).
“The Interplay of Text and Image”
Chair: Dr. Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Secretary: Dr. Gordon E. Thompson, City College of New York/CUNY
- “’Masks for the Soul’: Langston Hughes’s Pierrot Cycle”-Josh Murray, University of Georgia
- “Hughes’s Ask Your Mama, the look of Jazz, and the Culture of Commodities”-Michael Ford, University of Georgia
- “Reclaiming Langston & (Re)Climbing Mountains in ‘Harlem’”- Demetrius Noble, North Carolina A&T State University
- “The Interplay of Text and Image in Langston Hughes’s Translation Masters of the Dew (1947) and the Haitian Documentary Film The Road to Fondwa (2008)”-Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, University of Alabama at Birmingham
