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ACETA in Auburn, February 8-9, 2008
Gerald Graff headlines our conference,
Critical ConversationsACETA's 60th annual conference, held February 8-9, 2008, in Auburn, will feature author Gerald Graff.
ACETA is seeking presentation proposals related to the theme of Critical Conversations. They may include the following: Engaging Students in Critical Conversations; English Studies and the New Media; Mobile Students, Mobile Instructors, Teaching in the Age of Motion; Writing for publication (Helping Students Get Into Print); Preparing Students to Enter the Profession; Encouraging Students to Major in English; Teaching Writing to Students Who Seldom Read.
Presenters are asked to submit their proposals by October 15, 2007, to Dr. Steve Hubbard. He can be e-mailed at shubbard@lbwcc.edu. Those wishing to correspond with him can reach him at the following address: Dr. Steve Hubbard, Executive Secretary, ACETA, Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, P.O. Box 1418, Andalusia, AL 36430.
Proposals should not exceed 500 words in length, and the actual presentation time for the developed presentation is 20 minutes. Presentations will be scheduled for the afternoon of February 8, 2008. All presenters must register for the conference.
Please note that this list of topics is not exhaustive; it simply suggests some directions in which to take the theme.
Major events of the conference will be held at the hotel and conference center in downtown Auburn. Its official name is The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center. Its address is 241 South College Street, Auburn. AL 36830. ACETA members who plan to stay at the hotel will be given a special room rate of $89, for single or double occupancy. In addition, there is a 13% tax. Those making reservations must ask for the ACETA room block to get this special rate and should use the 1-800-228-2876 hotel number.
ACETA’s 59th Annual Conference
Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, Andalusia
February 16-17, 2007
Norman McMillan (left, above), retired University of Montevallo professor and one of ACETA's icons, said the 2007 ACETA conference in Andalusia restored a "vigor and enthusiasm" to the organization, and the quality and variety of events proved him right.
The conference, held at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in
Andalusia, featured a community reading by novelist, essayist, and journalist Roy Hoffman (bottom right) at the Andausia City Hall, and the passing of the prestigious Eugene Current-Garcia Award from Nancy Anderson of AUM (bottom left) to Elaine Hughes of the University of Montevallo (top right). The conference, whose theme was Sweet Home Alabama:Celebrating Alabama Writers, also featured panels on Alabama’s online literary map, Sequoyah and his Cherokee syllabary, rituals of food in Alabama literature, cultural geography in To Kill a Mockingbird, conflicts between the sacred and the profane
in Andrew Hudgins’ poetry, and readings of original
historical fiction by its authors, three senior English
majors from Birmingham-Southern College. A plenary assembly, featuring ACETA veterans Don Noble, Phil Beidler, Nancy Anderson, Bert Hitchcock, and Margaret Davis, discussed Alabama writers and writing today.
On Saturday morning, after breakfast sponsored by W.W.
Norton at LBWCC and the annual business meeting,
ACETA members heard papers read by the winners of
the Calvert, Woodall, and McMillan competitions. AUM’s
Nancy Anderson, winner in 2006 of the Eugene Current-
Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship, gave the keynote address. Lunch followed at Hickory
Ridge Lodge. There, McMillan, author of the play
Ashes of Roses, based on stories by Mary Ward Brown and
recently produced by Theatre AUM, capped the conference with a speech entitled “Turning Silk Purses into Sows’ Ears:
The Fears of an Adapter.”
Many thanks to ACETA’s 26 institutional members for academic year 2005-2006, whose financial
support was crucial: Alabama A & M University, Alabama Humanities Foundation, Alabama Southern
Community College, Auburn University, Auburn University Montgomery, Bishop State Community College,
Chattahoochee Valley Community College, Jacksonville State University, Jefferson State Community College,
Calhoun State Community College, Judson College, Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, Marion Military
Institute, Miles College, Northeast Alabama Community College, Samford University, Snead State
Community College, Spring Hill College, Tuskegee University, University of Alabama, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, University of Alabama in Huntsville, University of Montevallo, University of North Alabama,
University of West Alabama, and Wallace State Community College—Hanceville.Comments or questions about The Light? Contact Steve Hubbard, Executive Secretary; ACETA: Lurleen B.
Wallace Community College; P.O. Box 1418; Andalusia, AL 36420-1224. E-mail: shubbard@lbwcc.edu. For
updates and additional information, please see ACETA’s website: http://www.samford.edu/groups/aceta/.
To link to the directory of college and university English departments in Alabama, please click on the ACETA lighthouse logo below.
*Our logo was designed by Donna Fitch, web designer at Samford University's Office of Public Relations. To illustrate the lighthouse theme for our newsletter, The Light, Donna used the famous pharos or lighthouse at Alexandria in Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the World in a city that was the center of learning and culture.
