Schedule of Events

ACLA 2010 Conference Schedule

Thursday, April 1

  • 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Registration and Information Open
  • Thursday from 4:30-6 Round Table on “Navigating the Current Job Market,” co-sponsored by the Graduate Caucus and the ADPCL (Atia Sattar and Chandani Patel, presiding)
  • 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

  • Friday, April 2

  • 7:30 a.m-12:00 p.m. Registration Continues
  • 7:30 a.m-9:30 a.m. Coffee/Tea, Continental Breakfast
  • 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. ACLA Executive Board Meeting
  • 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Stream A panels
  • 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Stream B panels
  • 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Business Meeting
  • 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration Continues
  • 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Stream C Panels
  • 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Stream D Panels
  • 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Plenary Roundtable on Translation
  • Participants: Emily Apter, New York University; Sandra Bermann, Princeton University; Jacques Lezra, New York University; Haun Saussy, Yale University; Michael Wood, Princeton University.

  • 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Graduate Student Reception organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO)and the Faculty in Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University” Cash Bar and Readings by Louisiana Writers in the “Haut-Lieu” of Literary Life in New Orleans, “The Gold Mine Saloon” (701 Dauphine St., corner of Dauphine and St. Peter). Special thanks to poet Dave Brinks.

  • Saturday, April 3

  • 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Registration Continues
  • 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Coffee/Tea, Continental Breakfast
  • 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. ADPCL Breakfast (for departmental chairs and program directors)
  • 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Stream A panels
  • 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Stream B panels
  • 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
  • 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Stream C Panels
  • 3:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Stream D Panels
  • 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Plenary Address
  • Sheldon Pollock, the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia University, “Cosmopolitan Comparison”

  • 8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Banquet

  • Sunday April 4

  • 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Coffee/Tea, Continental Breakfast
  • 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Stream A panels
  • 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Registration Continues
  • 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Stream B panels
  • 12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
  • 1:30-3:30 Stream C Panels

  • Friday, April 1-Sunday April 4
    ACLA Book Exhibit

  • Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  • Saturday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  • Sunday 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

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