The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston this May, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe.
Please join us from Thursday, June 7th to Sunday, June 10. Each day, we’ll have speakers, presentations, Q&A with special guests, and much more! A more detailed schedule will be released soon. But if you want to be involved, have a paper you’d like to present, an idea about something you’d like to see at the event, or other suggestions or questions, send an abstract and a short bio, and any scheduling needs to [email protected] by May 15.
This is a sliding-scale, donation-based event. Virtual attendees will be asked to pay what they can to raise funds for our in-person conference #DFW26, set for Austin, TX. CFP for the 2026 Conference is coming soon. We hope to see you down the road!