{"id":73746,"date":"2019-11-29T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=73746"},"modified":"2019-11-28T15:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T20:33:39","slug":"cfp-texmoot-2020-apocalypse-unveiling-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2019\/11\/cfp-texmoot-2020-apocalypse-unveiling-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"#CFP TexMoot 2020\u2013Apocalypse: Unveiling the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

TexMoot 2020\u2013Apocalypse: Unveiling the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

Signum University\u2019s Third Annual Texas Literature & Language Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Ragnarok to\u00a0Revelation<\/em>, from the utopian proposals of Plato\u2019s\u00a0Republic<\/em>\u00a0to the dystopian vision of Huxley\u2019s\u00a0Brave New World<\/em>, a prominent concern of human language and literature has always been to describe possible futures. Some of these visions of the future are cataclysmic, looking forward to a time when Heaven\u2014or Mother Earth\u2014will wipe the slate clean; others propose a more optimistic vision of progress. Recent films such as\u00a0Interstellar<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Tomorrowland<\/em>\u00a0have taken a middle way, suggesting that although humanity has recently fallen short of its promise, there still remains hope that we will be able to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. Ultimately, these myriad versions of our destiny tell us as much about\u00a0who we are<\/em>\u00a0as they do about\u00a0where we are going<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Signum University\u2019s Annual Texas Language and Literature Symposium (TexMoot) invites you to join us as we consider visions of the eschaton in ancient and medieval literature, classic sci-fi and fantasy, and contemporary pop culture.\u00a0Please submit your abstract using the form online at\u00a0http:\/\/texmoot.org\/call-for-papers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are accepting submissions in three categories:<\/p>\n

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  1. Flash Papers (10-minute academic presentations)<\/li>\n
  2. Conference Papers (20-minute academic talks)<\/li>\n
  3. Original Poems (we\u2019re looking for topical poems on the conference theme only, up to 24 lines long, deliverable in under 2 minutes, to be read aloud by the poet to kick off a or paper session.\u00a0Submit the entire poem in the online form).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Possible topics include the following, but feel free to dream up others!<\/p>\n