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Wheaton College’s English Department presents the Annual Writing and Literature Conference titled “Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Writing, Race, and Faith” September 25 and 26. The conference will be held in the east wing of Edman Memorial Chapel (campus map), located on the Wheaton College campus. All events are free and open to the public.
This conference deals with a question: "How can we tell the best and truest stories of race and faith?" The question is complicated, as the conference title indicates. If race is a fiction or a social construction, how can race play a role in telling true things about God or faith? Do different ways of telling stories (histories, sermons, songs, memoirs, novels, poems, plays, etc.) affect the kinds of (or qualities of) truths that emerge about faith and race? How does considering writing in concert with faith and race conflict with or support more embodied encounters with race and faith, such as those that take place in college classrooms, dorm rooms, and dining rooms? How best can teaching the stories of race and faith affect the narratives our students take with them when they leave the environments of our campuses and communities? Working through these and other questions with an undergraduate community will be our conference agenda. To that end, this conference will bring together teachers, scholars, and writers to engage with students in talks, roundtables, and readings.
For more information, call 630.752.5051 or visit the English department website.
| 2:00 pm |
Teaching Multiethnic Literature: A Roundtable |
| 3:15 pm |
Reading and Riding the Cosmic Coil: Navigating Relations in the Work of Louise Erdric with Sheila Hassell Hughes, University of Dayton |
| 4:30 pm |
Eros and Art: Christianity, the Body, and Creativity in Harlem Masculinities with Peter Kerry Powers, Messiah College |
Friday, September 26
| 10:35 am |
Chapel Address: Poetry and the Faith Journey with Marilyn Nelson, Emeritus, University of Connecticut |
| 11:30 am |
Fiction Reading: "Prelude to a Love Story" and "Why I Love Lia" with Reggie Scott Young, University of Louisiana, Lafayette |
| 2:00 pm |
Poetry Reading with Marilyn Nelson, Emeritus, University of Connecticut |
| 3:15 pm |
Divine Plans, Human Loves: Race and Redemption in Go Down, Moses with Craig Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and |
| 4:30 pm |
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story with Timothy B. Tyson, Duke University |
| 7:30 pm |
Waiting for Snow in Havana with Carlos Eire, Yale University |
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