Now that I'm in my last semester of my senior year in college (we're not even going to address how scary that thought is), I have finally gotten around to submitting papers to literature conferences.
So far, I have submitted to three, and have heard back from two -- both good news. I'll be presenting some of my creative non-fiction work (potentially two essays) at the Speaking Truth to Power Conference (sponsored by the Conference on Christianity and Literature), hosted at George Fox University, April 16-18.
I also just heard that Kohleun and I have been accepted to present at the Northwest Undergraduate Conference for Literature (NUCL), hosted at the University of Portland on April 4th. I'll be reading one of my Oxford essays: "Community, Isolation, and Feminine Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway."
Kohleun will be presenting the paper she wrote (in Oxford) on the women poets of World War I.
Now I just have to figure out what people actually DO at conferences...
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So now I see what the "congrats" on your fb page were about! Alf mabrouk from your parents in Antalya, Turkey (your mother travels back to Amman tomorrow, I'm here for 4 more days). I am proud of you!
Tell us more about the papers (send them) and the conferences.
Oh, what you do at conferences - network, try to meet interesting people, hang out over coffee, and try not to attend too many dismally boring sessions (as most academics have no idea how to present anything in an interesting or intelligible way) (it's bad presentation skills, not brilliance).
love,
Baba
I guess the next step is, like, to register for those conferences. . .
Details, details. :)
many congratulations to you and koh! both of you beautiful people are amazing! wish i could be there to hear you present, but i'll be with you in spirit. loves loves loves!
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