Welcome to the ACLA 2013 Website!

The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting will take place at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada April 4 - 7, 2013.

The Annual Meeting program guide is available HERE, and is being updated daily to reflect any changes in seminar structure, room assignments, or any other pertinent information. Please consult this PDF version of the program guide regularly.

Conference Theme

Our theme for 2013 is "Global Positioning Systems."

At once domesticated and uncanny, world-mapping and world-changing, ubiquitous and invisible, GPS technology resonates broadly both as an exemplary metonym of contemporary technology and as a metaphor.

Conference presenters are invited to extend the metaphor widely in space and time and to non-technological realms. In particular, we are interested 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.

Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend, please notify us at conference@acla.org, and also please notify your seminar leader if you are a presenter. No refunds after March 1, 2013.

 

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