CFP+in+the+Humanitites

=Call for Papers: Natural High= Papers are invited for a conference at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on **5 August** on the relationship of nature, spirituality, and human consciousness. The aim of the conference is to identify the possible points of connection between the divergent views of nature, spirituality, and human consciousness held by poets Gerard Manley Hopkins ("The Windhover") and Walt Whitman ("Song at Sunset"). Rather than cataloging all the ways in which the poems are similar or different, papers should focus on one or several (related) sites of comparison, for example, the poems' apparent stance toward nature and the rest of the human world, or the kinds of spirituality represented in the poems. Papers must be 1000-1250 words in length, may draw upon academic research, and must adhere to MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation style. Successful papers will be made available to professors for classroom use in such courses as Introduction to Literature. As such, writers should target an audience of college freshman and sophomores. Please submit a rough draft of your paper on **3 August** for conventional peer review and a final draft of your paper on **5 August** for blind peer review.1

Required Readings
=Reading Aids= If you find something else that's related to this poem, post it here.
 * Get up to speed on the possible relationship between spirit, nature, and consciousness by reading Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Windhover" and Walt Whitman's "Song at Sunset."
 * R ead materials about how to write an explanation in the humanities: writing in the humanities, LR 223-27; explanation, LR 266-80; MLA documentation, LR 177-94
 * R eview information about how to develop academic writing: summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting sources, LR 98-115; research process, LR 125-39; synthesizing sources, LR 163-76
 * Papers submitted for blind peer review should contain no self-identity information: e.g., name, social security number, etc.
 * SparkNotes: [|Hopkin's Poetry: "The Windhover"]