Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2023
20th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference
April 20–22, 2023
Norman Mailer at 100
Austin, TX • Co-Sponsored by The Harry Ransom Center
https://normanmailersociety.org/con23 | #NMSCon20
Call for Papers
The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 20th annual conference, which will celebrate Norman Mailer’s centenary. The conference events will be held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX, from April 20-22, 2023.
Paper proposals on any aspect of Mailer’s life, work, and legacy are welcome. Topics might include (but are not limited to): Mailer’s contributions to American political conversations; views on corporations and capitalism; gender; race; class; criminality; democracy; left conservatism; cosmology and spirituality; experimentations with genre and style; relationships or thematic parallels with other writers; reading Mailer in the context of #MeToo and contemporary feminisms; literary influences and inheritors; reconsiderations of individual works; and teaching Mailer.
To submit a proposal for a panel, individual paper, or special event, please e-mail the following to Maggie McKinley (nospam|mmckinle|harpercollege.edu) and Jerry Lucas (nospam|gerald|[email protected]):
- a 150-200 word abstract
- a 50-word biographical statement
- A/V requirements, if any
Proposals are due by December 1, 2022.
