Panel Topics for the 2014 SNS Conference

Panel Topics for SNS Conference, April 4-6, 2014, University of Utah

Conference Title: Land and the Novel

1.     Land, Territory, Nation, Empire

2.     Genres of Land: Saga, Pastoral, Georgic and the Novel

3.     Land, Law, and Property

4.     Working the Land

5.     Blood and Soil/Race and Land/Autochthony and Strangers

6.     Country and City, Redux

7.     Manifest Destinies

8.     Promised Lands, Sacred Lands, and Political Theology

9.     Homelands, Real and Imaginary

10. Here Be Dragons: Off the Map (and Off the Planet)

11. Land versus Place

12. Ecological Disaster and Post-Apocalyptic Territory

13. Macondo and Other “Lands”

14. Transnational Novels

15. The Novel Beyond the Nation

16. Territory and the Extra-territorial

17. Geology, Geological Time, and the Novel

18. FantasyLand, Virtuality, and Speculative Geography

19. Borderlands and Disputed Lands

20. Marco? Polo! Travel, Wandering, Peripeteia and the Novel

21. Sexing the Land

22. Gaia

23. The New Indigeneity in the Americas

24. Deep Ecology

Check our website for call for papers, which is to appear very soon!