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The Center for the Study of New Orleans and Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University New Orleans invite proposals for scholarly papers to be delivered at our fall NolaLoyola symposium. Every fall, NolaLoyola will serve as a venue for scholars and the community to come together to celebrate and study the culture and history of the Crescent City. The theme for our inaugural program is “Food for Thought,” an examination of the food culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South.
The program committee welcomes scholarly presentations from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, history, literature, economics, environmental science, material culture, and area studies. We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate the fundamental link between food culture and broader social themes. Topics may embrace a broad interpretation of foodways in New Orleans and the Gulf South, including aspects of production, preparation, and marketing through its consumption, history, and memory, the relationship between local foodways and social justice, cultural identity, demographic change, environmental sustainability, literary imagination, community formation, and education.
NOLALoyola is an exciting interdisciplinary symposium that will take place on the Loyola University New Orleans uptown campus on September 30. In addition to the panel presentations on Friday, the 2011 event will feature musical performances, interactive student programming, and a keynote event featuring nationally recognized New Orleans chefs and restaurateurs.
Expanded versions of selected papers and presentations from the symposium will appear in an edited volume published by the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing in conjunction with an established university press.
To ensure full consideration by the program committee, please submit a five hundred-word abstract and a current curriculum vita postmarked OR emailed on or before Saturday, June 18, 2011 to the address below. Scholars will be notified of their proposal’s status via email no later than Friday, July 17th. Finished papers should not exceed twenty minutes in length and should be completed and submitted to the panel commenter by September 1, 2011. Please send all questions via email to the appropriate address below in order to ensure a prompt reply.
Make all submissions to:
Sonia Bordes
Department of History – Loyola University New Orleans
Box 191
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
stbordes@loyno.edu
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Justin Nystrom
jnystrom@loyno.edu
For more information on the Center for the Study of New Orleans, please visit our website at www.loyno.edu/csno
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