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Walker Percy National Education Project Submitted (October, 1998) Master Plan Announced (July, 1997). CD-ROM Proposal Online Conference Plan Announced (January, 1998). Second grant submitted to NEH to stage Internet-based conference in 1999.
Project announces opportunities: Consider volunteering with the Project! Read about the Projects submission opportunities. Join the PERCY-L discussion group! Over 100 members worldwide and growing! |
Jan./Feb. 1999 issue of the Oxford American is dedicated to Percy and includes a never before published Percy story, Young Nuclear Physicist WP Society Session at the American Literature Association May 20-23, 1999 Baltimore, MD for more info. contact John F. Desmond, English Dept. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362. Read about the society. Spring 1998 issue of Doubletake Magazine (published by Duke Center for Documentary Studies) includes Will Percys discussion with Bruce Springsteen about the impact of his uncles work upon the rock 'n roll superstar Call for Papers: Walker Percy: Writing Beyond the Last Days is theme of a session to be held at the 1999 Conference on Christianity and Literature at the MLA Convention in Chicago. Papers or abstracts on Percys apocalypticism and theology, philosophy, psychology, biography, literary theory (e.g., Blanchot, Derrida), American history, literary history, or cultural studies should be submitted to Gary M. Ciuba, email: ciubag@trumbull.kent.edu by March 15, 1999. Literature and Belief Journal, Walker Percy issue published by Brigham Young University (Fall, 1997).
LSU Graduate Seminar completes annotations project for online publication (Spring, 1997). Educators: Consider submitting your Percy-related exercises and tests to the Projects conference and teaching center Project announces general call for educational resources and the availability of Internet classrooms.
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Project featured in The Southern Register, the newsletter for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, circulation 35,000 Read about other publicity the Project has received. Did you know that the Walker Percy Project... Has been accessed over 35,000 times... Read the latest news in St. Tammany Parish, LA, hometown of Walker Percy.
Percy Weekend Seminar held at UNC-Chapel Hill, February 12-13, 1999 September 1998 Words and Music Festival in New Orleans honors Percy 1998 Walker Percy Symposium Held (Covington, La.) Lost in the Cosmos (The Play) Performed, Atlanta, GA (1996) The Kumquat Bookstore Closes Covington, LA (1996) |


