The 2016 Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies will be held at the University of Alaska Anchorage April 1st and 2nd, 2016. There will be roundtables, panels, two keynote addresses, a poster session, a creative writing session, a silent auction, and several extraneous events.
The theme of the conference is the influence of place on language, writing, and the literature in history as well as in the rapidly changing global and digital landscape.
- How does place impact the development of language? How does it influence vocabulary, linguistic patterns, and pronunciation, and what are the delineations that make one dialect region so different from another?
- How does place impact how and what is written?
- How do micro-spaces influence the writing process?
- How is writing and the composition process impacted by the newly digital and global communications landscape?
The keynote speakers, Dr. Scott Slovic from the University of Idaho, and Dr. David Bowie from the University of Alaska Anchorage, will be delivering exciting and unique addresses on the impact of place on literature and language. Dr. Slovic studies literature and the environment, with an emphasis on ecocriticism and international literature processes. Dr. Bowie is a sociolinguist conducting exciting research on how settlement patterns impacted the linguistic patterns of Alaska, focusing on the Great Vowel Shift.
The CFP is available on the site. You can submit proposals and questions to uaapacrim@gmail.com.
PacRim is a graduate run conference. Conference organizers include:
Blanche Sheppard, Director
Jason Collins, Assistant Director
Mitch Hoback, Communications Director
Dr. Trish Jenkins, Faculty Advisor
Dr. Sharon Emmerichs, Faculty Advisor
UAA Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies 