Past Conference Programs

SAMLA conferences have covered a rich variety of topics over the years- reflecting trends and important issues in the fields of literature, rhetoric and composition, art, history, film, and more. This collection of past conference programs reflects how it has evolved in recent years.

SAMLA 97
Knowledge

2025
SAMLA 96
Seen/Unseen

2024
SAMLA 95
(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies

2023
SAMLA 94
Change

2022
SAMLA 93
Social Networks: Social Distances

2021
SAMLA 92
Scandal! Literature and Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts

2020
SAMLA 91
Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships

2019
SAMLA 90
Fighters From the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and Their Allies

2018
SAMLA 89
High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture

2017
SAMLA 88
Utopia/Dystopia: Whose Paradise Is It?

2016
SAMLA 87
In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts

2015
SAMLA 86
Sustainability and Humanities

2014
SAMLA 85
Cultures, Contexts, Images, Texts: Making Meaning in Print, Digital, and Networked Worlds

2013
SAMLA 84
Special Focus Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration, and Exile

2012
SAMLA 83
The Power of Poetry in the Modern World

2011
SAMLA 82
Structure: The Interplay of Text and Image

2010

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