S E V E N T Y - S E V E N T H A N N U A L C O N V E N T I O N

of the COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

April 5-8 , 2017 Columbia, Missouri

C A L L F O RA B S T R A C T S LiteraturesLanguagesin

Diversityand

andinterdisciplinARYStudies

π HUMANITIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: TOWARD A NEW ERA TO INTERPRET AND TEACH LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

π INTERPRETING CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS BEYOND CULTURAL AND LITERARY

THEORY AND CRITICISM

π POSTCOLONIALISM, DE-COLONIALITY, AFRO-DECOLONIALITY, AFRO-EPISTEMOLOGY, AFRICANA CRITICAL THEORY: THEORIES OF LIBERATION

π AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN DE-COLONIALITY THROUGH LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND FILMS

π AFRICAN/DIASPORA DE-COLONIALITY THROUGH SELF-REPRESENTATIONS IN MANUALS, MUSIC, FILMS, ART, LANGUAGES, LITERATURES

π FROM FRANCE TO FRANCOPHONIE: DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND FILMS

π AFRO-GERMAN TEXTS FOR THE BEGINNING, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED

GERMAN-LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

π AFRO-GERMAN STUDIES: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

π DIVERSITY IN THE AFRICAN/DIASPORA IMMIGRANT WORKS: LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, EUROPE, U.S.π DIALOGUES BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN AND THE U.S.-- CROSS APPROACHES OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC THROUGH NICOLÁS GUILLÉN AND LANGSTON HUGHES

π APPROACHES TO THE WORKS OF JAMAICA KINCAID AND DAVID MILLS

Send Individual and Panel Proposals to: Send Individual and Panel Proposals to: Send Individual and Panel Proposals to: Send Individual and Panel Proposals to: Dr. Jervette Ward ( E N G L I S H A R E A R E P R E S E N T A T I V E )

E n g l i s h r e p@c l a s c h o l a r s . o r g

Dr. Matthew Pettway ( F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E S A r e a R E P R E S E N T A T I V E )

F o r e i g n r e p@c l a s c h o l a r s . o r g

Send Special Session Proposals to:( F o r A l l i e d O r g a n i z a t i o n s l i s t e d b e l o w a n d C L A S t a n d i n g C o m m i t t e e s O N L Y )

Dr. Donna Akiba Sullivan HarperV i c e p r e s i d e n t@c l a s c h o l a r s . o r g

Deadline S e p t e m b e r 1 5 , 2 0 1 6

Convention Location Convention Location

Host InstitutionHost Institution UNIVERSITY of MISSOURI Columbia, MO

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The College Language Association, founded in 1937 by a group of Black scholars and educators, is an organization of college teachers of English and foreign languages, which serves the academic, scholarly, and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent. Since 1957 the Association has published the , a quarterly publication featuring scholarly research and reviews of books in the areas of language, literature, linguistics, and pedagogy.

ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS

The Langston Hughes SocietyThe Middle Atlantic Writers AssociationThe Zora Neale Hurston SocietyThe Richard Wright CircleThe Charles W. Chesnutt AssociationThe Alice Childress SocietyThe Georgiana Simpson SocietySouth Atlantic Modern Language Association

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