{"id":5424,"date":"2022-04-10T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2022-04-10T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:14:26","slug":"updike-panels-set-registration-deadline-nears-for-ala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/04\/10\/updike-panels-set-registration-deadline-nears-for-ala\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike panels set, registration deadline nears for ALA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The John Updike Society was launched at the American Literature Association conference in Boston in May 2009 and has participated in ALA conferences ever since. The ALA is a coalition of societies devoted to the study of American authors. Many of those societies are single-author, and registrants\/attendees are able to attend any sessions sponsored by the many societies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Palmer-House-Hilton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Palmer-House-Hilton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Palmer-House-Hilton.jpg 420w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/04\/Palmer-House-Hilton-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Updike Society panels are set for the <strong>33rd Annual Conference on American Literature <\/strong>at the historic Palmer House Hilton (celebrating its 150th anniversary this year) in downtown Chicago, Ill., May 26-29 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, May 26, 2022<\/strong><br>Session 1-I, 9-10:20 a.m.<br>&#8220;Women and Sex in the Works of John Updike and Other Male Authors&#8221;<br>Moderator:  James Plath (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.)<br>Panelists:  Susan Norton (Technological Univ. Dublin), Marshall Boswell (Rhodes College), Biljana Doj\u010dinovi\u0107 (Univ. of Belgrade), Olga Karasik-Updike (Independent Scholar), and Matthew Koch (Tarrant County College).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, May 27, 2022<\/strong><br>Session 8-I, 10-11:20 a.m.<br>&#8220;Autobiography and Updike&#8217;s <em>Self-Consciousness<\/em>&#8220;<br>Moderator:  Matthew Koch (Tarrant County College)<br>Panelists:  Peter Bailey (St. Lawrence Univ.), Sylvie Math\u00e9 (Aix-Marseille Univ.), Quentin Miller (Suffolk Univ.), Robert Morace (Daemen College), and James Schiff (Univ. of Cincinnati).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, May 27, 2022<\/strong><br>Session 9-L, 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.<br>John Updike Society Business Meeting (all welcome to attend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ALA-2022-Program-Draft-April-8.pdf\">Full draft program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who are on the program are required to pre-register by April 15. The conference fee is $175, with a reduced rate of $125 for graduate students, independent scholars, and retired faculty. Information on the hotel conference rate, links, and other details can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\">ALA website.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Updike Society was launched at the American Literature Association conference in Boston in May 2009 and has participated in ALA conferences ever since. The ALA is a coalition of societies devoted to the study of American authors. 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