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Conference Information
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Gerald R. Ford International Airport Conference Program Call for Papers Six of the plenary speakers will take the stage by twos, engaging shared issues from divergent perspectives that will allow the audience to experience the complexity of the questions at hand: two speakers on race/class, two on embodiment/gender, and two on cultural versus theological approaches to O'Connor. The seventh speaker, Anthony Di Renzo, will provide an opening night address on holy terror: "And the Violent Bear It Away: Flannery O'Connor and the Menace of Apocalyptic Terrorism." Professor Di Renzo's Thursday night talk is offered to the community as a public lecture, and the program that evening will also include remarks by GVSU Provost Galye Davis, an address by incoming president of the Flannery O'Connor Society, Robert Donahoo, performances by Judy Yordon of scenes from O'Connor's works and by the GVSU Gospel Choir of music from O'Connor's texts. The evening will begin with cheese and fruit hors d'oeuvres at 5 p.m. with the program starting at 6 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend. Other conference highlights include a workshop on dramatizing O'Connor in the classroom by Professor Yordon; roundtable remarks by Frederick Asals, Robert Brinkmeyer, and Patricia Yaeger; a talk by Craig Amason, director of Friends of Andalusia; interviews with plenary speakers; screening and discussion of O'Connor films; and breakout sessions with scholary papers by seventy national and international O'Connor scholars. Event Sponsors The Flannery O'Connor Society |
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Jon Lance Bacon, author of Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture
Christina Bieber Lake, author of The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor
Tim Caron, author of Struggles over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright
Anthony Di Renzo, author of American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque
Bruce Gentry, editor of Flannery O'Connor Review and author of Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque 
Katherine Hemple Prown, author of Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of 
Ralph C. Wood, author of Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South 
