
For questions or information, please contact CEA-MAG president, Dr. La Tanya Rogers: lrogers@fisk.edu
The College English Association: Middle Atlantic Group, a regional affiliate of the College English Association, is an association of teachers and scholars of English and related disciplines in the humanities whose mission is to promote professional
growth through dialogue on literature, language, culture, technology, rhetoric, and composition. The CEA-MAG is a collegial organization that values diversity and inclusion. The CEA-MAG provides conference venues for papers and publishes a scholarly
journal, The CEA Mid-Atlantic Review.
College English Association - Middle Atlantic
Group
63rd ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2021
Call for
Papers
“Writing
and Teaching Justice in an Age of Unrest”
6 March
2021
Keynote
Panel: “Music and Movement”
Virtual
Conference
“Writing and Teaching Justice” is the theme for 2021’s CEA-MAG
Conference, which will be held online this year with remote panels and keynote
address. This year’s theme is a prompt for papers and panels seeking and
articulating justice in English, Modern Languages, Cultural Studies, the
Humanities and STEM subjects, the Social Sciences, and interdisciplinary
subjects. We therefore invite papers and panels from academics in higher
education, AP instructors, and graduate students on any topic that is likely to
be of interest to this organization. Although proposals may broadly interpret
the conference theme along the following subtopics indicated below, we will
also gladly review for possible inclusion thematically divergent proposals.
Some
Subtopics to Consider:
- Black lives
matter. Period.
- What was
normal? Or, Lessons the pandemic taught me
- Written,
spoken, performed: The rhetoric of protest
- Remote teaching
netiquette: Or, OK, everybody mute your mics, please
- Writing (&
righting) civil disobedience
- Teaching
literature in an age of authoritarian politics
- Masking and
unmasking COVID-19 ideologies
- Plague Lit 101
- The times, they
better be a-changin’: Protest songs for a digital age
- Join or die:
Divisive and inclusionary rhetoric in the public space
- The curve:
Grading student work during COVID-19
- Policing
justice
- In their own
words: Teachers on the front lines of instruction during COVID-19
- Quarantined:
Building LGBTQ community in a time of social distancing
- The social
responsibility of higher ed: Or, the ballot or the pandemic
- #MeToo: You are
not alone
- Let me count
the ways: Or, lies, damned lies, & statistics during COVID-19
- Online
education: Before and after
- Alright:
Hip-hop as social protest
- The aesthetics
and politics of the staged Zoom bookcase backdrop
- Free speech
isn’t free: The media’s role in framing and achieving justice
- Adjuncts of the
world, unite! Or, Economic justice in higher ed
- To sync or not
to sync: Pedagogies for a pandemic
- Muses, divine
goddesses, and other inspirations for dialog and change
Students: Students are encouraged to submit proposals
for short creative works to be read or performed at a closing reception at the
end of the conference.
Graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to
compete for the $100 Christopher Bell prize for best grad student paper and
should be prepared to submit a full copy of the accepted conference paper by
Feb. 24 to the Program Committee Chair.
Submissions: Please email your paper abstracts (of 500
words or fewer) or panel proposals by 6 January 2020 to Bishnu Ghimire, Program
Committee Chair, at ceamagconference@gmail.com.
Please include “CEA-MAG” in the subject line of all submissions. Acceptance
letters will be sent out in late January.
Paper abstracts and panel proposals should include the
following information: Name; institutional affiliation (if applicable); mailing
address (including zip code); phone number and email address; title for the
proposed presentation; abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the
conference will be limited to 15 minutes); A-V needs, if any; special needs, if
any.
Registration: Since this conference will be held virtually,
we are asking for a pay-what-you-can contribution so that we can publish the CEAMAG Journal. Our usual registration/CEA-MAG
membership fee is $50 ($35 for adjunct instructors and $25 for graduate
students). The link to the online registration page is on the webpage for the
CEA-MAG: https://www.umes.edu/ceamag/.
Questions? Other questions may be directed to CEA-MAG
President LaTanya Rogers at lrogers@fisk.edu. Website: www.umes.edu/CEAMAG.
last updated: 10/30/2020 by Terry Kundell (tlkundell@umes.edu)