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Flannery Abroad: A Conference in Celebration of Flannery O'Connor's Centenary
Flannery O'Connor famously didn't like to travel:
We went to Europe and I lived through it but my capacity for staying at home has now been perfected, sealed & is going to last me the rest of my life."
- Flannery O'Connor
Nonetheless, in the tradition of the previous International Flannery O'Connor Conferences, we are taking O'Connor abroad in honor of her 100th birthday and to celebrate O’Connor’s influence on European writers, thinkers, and artists.
Sponsored by Fordham's Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Loyola Chicago's Hank Center, Georgetown University, The Flannery O'Connor Trust.
Event Details
June 6-8, 2025 | 7pm CST
Fordham University London Campus,
2 Eyre St Hill, London,
EC1R 5ET, United Kingdom
Currently accepting Call for Paper Proposals
Call for Papers
Proposal Deadline: February 14th, 2025
We are interested in presentations that relate to the following topics:
- O’Connor’s influence on European writers, thinkers and artists
- Comparative studies of O’Connor and British/European writers
- O’Connor and regional writing
- O’Connor’s influence on art, music, film, and popular culture
- O’Connor and travel abroad
- O’Connor’s reception outside the U.S.
- Teaching and Translating O’Connor abroad
- O'Connor's depictions of Europe, Europeans, the experience of Europe, and European history in her writings
Send proposals in a WORD doc (no more than 250 words) to cacs@fordham.edu.
