Welcome to the ACLA 2010 Website!

The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Monteleone Hotel with additional nearby sessions at Arnaud's and the Hotel Astor, on April 1-4, 2010 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon).

We are pleased to announce that the program for the 2010 ACLA Conference in New Orleans is finished and can be downloaded here:

2010 ACLA Conference Program

Conference Theme

Our theme for 2010 was "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms." The ACLA’s 2010 meeting in New Orleans—a city that has long prided itself on its exceptional linguistic, legal and cultural statuses—gives an occasion for reflecting on and extending the concept of the “creole.” Creole languages appropriate pieces of other languages to make new composite grammars and vocabularies; creole societies enroll, originally by force, bodies from diverse places and tribes. The incorporation that might be singled out as the defining feature of the “creole” interacts with the diffusion and memory characteristic of the diaspora and with the attempt to construct or hold open a cosmopolitan cultural space. Read more...

Conference Information

The ACLA’s annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for the three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks. Previous conference programs that show this pattern are available at the ACLA website. The conference also includes plenary sessions, workshops and roundtable discussions, a business meeting, a banquet, and other events.

 

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