Call for Papers

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Call for Papers

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of alumna Toni Morrison’s (MA 1955) degree, the Toni Morrison Collective of Cornell University, in collaboration with the Toni Morrison Society, announces a symposium, “Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life,” scheduled for September 2025*. Beyond her many accomplishments as a novelist, including the Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), Toni Morrison’s stature also as critic and public intellectual is the context for the symposium’s deliberations. During the three days of the symposium, keynote speakers, roundtable discussions, and panel presentations will consider questions that engaged Morrison’s creative and critical energies.

Proposals for papers and roundtable presentations are invited on topics listed below.

*Specific dates to be announced soon.

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Indicate the topic of your paper or roundtable proposal from one of the groups below. *

Paper Panel Topics (formal papers of up to 2000 words) *

Reading Morrison's Novels Then and Now

Knowledge from The Interviews and Conversations

Morrison’s Cornell Thesis on Faulkner and Woolf, her first work of criticism

Morrison’s Reviews and Critical Writings

Morrison as Editor

The Creative-Theoretical Toni Morrison

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Roundtable Topics (presentations of up to 10 minutes) *

Morrison as Teacher

Teaching Toni Morrison

Reflections on Toni Morrison by Black women writers

Toni Morrison as an International Figure

Morrison as Curator

Morrison and Monuments & Other Forms of Material Culture

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