>Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:00:24 >From: Richard Waldron <rwaldron@admin.sos.state.nj.us> >To: nj_history@email.rutgers.edu >Subject: Call for Papers, Walt Whitman Conference >Cc: singley@crab.rutgers.edu, tbhlhh@crab.rutgers.edu, balkunma@shu.edu, > jbauer@turbo.kean.edu >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-nj_history@email.rutgers.edu >Precedence: bulk > >The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and Rutgers University, Camden, >are the major sponsors of "The Many Cultures of Walt Whitman: A Conference >for Scholars and Teachers," Friday and Saturday, October 23-24, at the >Rutgers, Camden, campus. The conference is funded by the New Jersey >Council for the Humanities (a state program of the National Endowment for >the Humanities), Rutgers University, and the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts >Center. > >Topics for papers may include new directions/current trends in Whitman >scholarship; cultural contexts (religious, philosophical, social, >political, sexual, etc.) and regional ties that illuminate Whitman's >writings; issues related to teaching about Whitman at any instructional >level. > >Send 2-3 page proposals or full papers by June 1, 1998, to Tyler Hoffman, >Dept. of English, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102; email ><TBHLHH@crab.rutgers.edu>. >