Updates on ASLE's 2007 Conference

[Karla Armbruster <armbruka@webster.edu>]

Dear ASLE Folks,

I want to point out a few new conference features/opportunities that 
have recently been (or will soon be) added to the conference web site 
at http://www.woffordcollege.org/asle/.

1) First, our opening plenary speaker on the evening of Tuesday, June 
12, will be Bill McKibben.  Noted Southern poet Fred Chappell has also 
joined our line-up of plenary speakers.

2) Second, we have added another pre-conference workshop:

Staying Alive:  a workshop for academic professionals, led by John 
Tallmadge, independent scholar and literary/educational consultant.   
This workshop will focus on how to live an emotionally, ethically, and 
spiritually healthy life in academia no matter what happens.  A 
slightly more detailed description will appear on the conference web 
site soon, and those interested are encouraged to contact John 
Tallmadge at jtallmadge@cinci.rr.com for more details.

(Our other workshops include Conjuring Place, A Workshop in Narrative 
Criticism, and Growing Your Own Literature: A Place-Based Publishing 
Workshop.)

3) The title of the pre-conference seminar led by Rob Figueroa has been 
slightly changed to "Exploring Environmental Identity from 
Environmental Justice."  This change, along with the detailed 
description of the seminar, will appear on the web site soon.  In the 
meantime, if you would like the description, please contact me (Karla) 
directly.

(The other seminars are on 1) International Nature-Oriented Literature 
and Ecocritical Theory and 2) Science Studies and Ecocriticism.  We are 
also offering workgroups on the topics of
Criticism and Theory, Writing and Discourse, and Engagement and 
Activism)

PLEASE NOTE:  Registration deadlines are January 15th for seminars and 
March 15th for workgroups and workshops.  Although you must be 
registered for the conference to ATTEND any of these activities, you 
may register for them before you register for the conference (in all 
cases, you register by simply sending me an e-mail message asking me to 
reserve your spot,)

If you haven't yet checked out the rest of the seminar, workshop, and 
workgroup offerings, please take the time to do so as soon as you can — 
http://www.woffordcollege.org/asle/.  If you are wondering about the 
differences in format between workgroups, seminars, and workgroups, 
again — please read the descriptions at 
http://www.woffordcollege.org/asle/.

Thanks!

Karla  


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Karla Armbruster
Associate Professor
English Department
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119
314-961-2660, ext. 7577
FAX: 314-968-7173