{"id":23,"date":"2023-07-13T04:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thbevilacqua.wordpress.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-07-13T04:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:22:57","slug":"conference-presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/academic-work\/conference-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon and Binx, Draper and Bolling: The Influence of Walker Percy\u2019s <em>The Moviegoer<\/em> on <em>Mad Men<\/em>.\u201d American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExperiences of War and Existentialism in the Fiction of Hemingway and Walker Percy.\u201d Ernest Hemingway Society, Paris, France, July 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWalker Percy, Gabriel Marcel, and <em>ecclesia viator<\/em>.\u201d South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, FL, November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Wise Blood<\/em>, and the Presence of Catholicism in American Literature in 1952.\u201d Ernest Hemingway Society, Oak Park, IL, June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn The Road to West Egg: Narrative Connections between <em>The Great Gatsby <\/em>and <em>On The Road<\/em>.\u201d American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConsidering Modernism and its Presence in the Television Show <em>Mad Men<\/em>.\u201d South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC, November 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u201cI\u2019m going to fix everything just the way it was before\u2019: Gatsby\u2019s Catholic Approach to Time.\u201d F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, Waterford, Ireland. July 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018A list of things I\u2019d like to do. One, climb Mount Kilimanjaro, go anywhere in Africa actually\u2019: The Presence of Hemingway in <em>Mad Men<\/em>.\u201d American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGrace and the Grotesque: The Catholic Use of Violence in Flannery O\u2019Connor and Martin Scorsese.\u201d ALA Symposium on God and the American Writer, San Antonio, TX. February 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and <em>I hate very much to leave it<\/em>\u201c: Robert Jordan as Martyr in <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>. Ernest Hemingway Society, Venice, Italy, June 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDean and The Swede: Examining the Characterization of America in On The Road and American Pastoral.\u201d Philip Roth Society, Newark, NJ, March 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIntuition and the Blood Consciousness: D.H. Lawrence, Henri Bergson and Bertrand Russell.\u201d The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2019I\u2019m just out here, searchin\u2019 for my own piece of the cross\u2019: Sensory Experience, The Catholic Imagination and the Creation of Community in Bruce Springsteen\u2019s <em>Magic<\/em>.\u201d South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC, November 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018It was hard work walking up-hill [\u2026] but Nick felt happy\u2019: The Role of the Road in \u2018Big Two-Hearted River\u2019 and Jack Kerouac\u2019s <em>On The Road<\/em>.\u201d Ernest Hemingway Society, Petoskey, Michigan, June 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Narrative and Homosocial Bonds in Hemingway\u2019s <em>A Farewell to Arms<\/em>&nbsp;and Dos Passos\u2019&nbsp;<em>Three Soldiers<\/em>.&#8221; Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester, NY, March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Write in honor of his death\u2019:&nbsp;<em>Visions of Gerard<\/em>\u2019s Role in Shaping Jack Kerouac\u2019s <em>Legend of Duluoz<\/em>.\u201d Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Give us Peace O Lord <em>In Our Time<\/em>\u2019: Hemingway, Ritual and Religion.\u201d Ernest Hemingway Society, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018A Big Structure of Confession\u2019: The Influence of Catholicism on Jack Kerouac\u2019s <em>On The Road<\/em>.\u201d Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Yes, it was pure, in my heart\u2019: The Countercultural Legacy of Jack Kerouac\u2019s Catholicism.\u201d Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon and Binx, Draper and Bolling: The Influence of Walker Percy\u2019s The Moviegoer on Mad Men.\u201d American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2019. \u201cExperiences of War and Existentialism in the Fiction of Hemingway and Walker Percy.\u201d Ernest Hemingway Society, Paris, France, July 2018. \u201cWalker Percy, Gabriel Marcel, and ecclesia viator.\u201d South Atlantic Modern Language Association, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page-template.php","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgU9Px-n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbevilacqua.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}