ACLA at MLA

 

ACLA Sessions at the 2012 MLA Convention
January 5, 2011 – Seattle, WA

The ACLA and ADPCL sponsor panels at the MLA Convention in Seattle. The convention will begin on Thursday, 5 January and end on Sunday, 8 January:

(Session 481) Panel title: "On Comparison"
Date/Time/Location: Saturday January 7th, 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

Moderators: Rita Felski (University of Virginia)/Susan Stanford Friedman (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)

1. "Axes of Comparison" Haun Saussy (University of Chicago)

2. "Comparison As Relation" Shu-mei Shih (University of Southern California)

3. "Crossroads, Parallelism, and Distant Killing: On the Ethics and Politics of Comparison" Longxi Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)

4. "On the Knowing or Understanding Subject: Who Is Comparing What and For What?" Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)

(Session 322) Panel title: "The Americanization of Comparative Literature/The Comparatization of American Studies" -- Session Sponsored by the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Date/Time/Location: Friday January 6th, 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., 305, Washington State Convention Center

Presider: Corinne Scheiner (Colorado College)

1. "Intercontinental American Literature" Waïl S. Hassan (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana)

2. "Incomparably Concentric: America and Comparatism" Djelal Kadir (Penn State Univ., University Park)

3. "Transamerican Studies and American Comparativisms" Silvia Spitta (Dartmouth Coll.)

4. "What American Studies Can Learn from Comparative Literature" Ali Behdad (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

 

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ACLA sessions at previous MLA conferences:

2011 MLA in Los Angeles

2009 MLA in Philadelphia

2008 MLA in San Francisco

2007 MLA in Chicago

2006 MLA in Philadelphia

2005 MLA in Washington, D.C.

2004 MLA in Philadelphia