[ARETE] FW: CFP: Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture

[Wedge, Philip C.]

From: Hazucha, Andy <andy.hazucha at ottawa.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2024 8:42 AM

Subject: CFP: Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture

Friends,

Several of you on my newly updated distribution list today did not receive the communiqué I sent out several weeks ago regarding the recent death of Pete Carino.  Pete was a long-time member of the English department at Indiana State University, a life-long New York Mets fan, and the founder of the Conference on Baseball in Literature/Culture.  He hosted the conference at ISU from 1995 to 2004 before he handed it off to Warren Tormey and Ron Kates at Middle Tennessee State University in 2005.  Pete passed away on August 29th of this year at the age of 75.  You'll find the link to his obituary here: https://www.flannerbuchanan.com/obituaries/peter-carino<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flannerbuchanan.com%2Fobituaries%2Fpeter-carino&data=05%7C02%7Csport_literature_association%40lists.ku.edu%7C5482f91a4ee14c882f2e08dcf50372b3%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638654642525769095%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=L3lpqYVjx20XUE5BXhqIxTLgMupGPoeSn5n3dssOcEw%3D&reserved=0>

At this year's conference, which Ottawa University will be hosting in the spring for the eighth time since 2016, we'll be honoring Pete in part by establishing the Pete Carino Young Scholars Award.  Any undergraduate or graduate student who submits their entire paper (not just the abstract) in advance of the conference will be eligible to receive the award; the winner will get a $500 cash stipend and have the conference fee waived.

For those of you who wish to donate to the Pete Carino Young Scholars Award fund (I should add that the award will be funded by donors like you!), you can do so as soon as I work out the details with our business office and a local bank here.  We'll probably have a couple of ways to donate, including via a tab on the "Registration" link of the conference website.  I'll keep you updated on all of that.
Lastly, and most importantly, I've attached the call for papers for the 2025 conference, which will take place on the Ottawa University campus on Friday, March 21, the week before opening day.  For all you faculty colleagues out there, if you have any stellar undergraduate or graduate students this semester who are baseball aficionados, please pass along this CFP to them.

Nota bene: We had to raise the conference registration fee this year to $120.
Thanks, and for Pete's sake I really have to ask: why aren't the Mets in the World Series tonight?

Andy Hazucha
Professor of English and Chair, Humanities Division
Ottawa University
1001 S. Cedar St.
Ottawa, KS 66067
office: (785) 248-2566
cell: (785) 550-4243
andy.hazucha at ottawa.edu<mailto:andy.hazucha at ottawa.edu>

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