ACLA at MLA 2008

 

ACLA Sessions at the 2008 MLA Convention
December 27-30, 2008 – San Francisco, California

Programs Arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association:

Comparative Literature and Law in an Age of Globalism
Presiding: Sandra L. Bermann, Princeton University

1. "The Subject of Law: On the State as an 'International Legal Person,'" Teemu Ruskola, Emory University Law School

2. "Translating Human Rights," Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University

3. "Literary Trafficking: The World Novel and The Illicit Text Trade," Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University

Comparative Literature and Media Studies: Convergence or Opposition?
Presiding: Haun Saussy, Yale University

1. "Remediation Yes, Media Studies No," Jeffrey D. Wallen, Hampshire College

2. "New Media Critical Homologies," Brian Lennon, Pennsylvania State University

3. "Reading and Writing 419: Digital Media and the Geopolitics of Multiauthorial Narrative," Paul Benzon, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

4. "Narrative Convergence and the New Medial Ecology," Marc Ruppel, University of Maryland, College Park

Programs Arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature:

Middlesex in World Literatures
Presiding: Chantal Zabus, Université Paris 13

Post-Cold-War Literary Encounters in the Mediterranean Basin
Presiding: Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University

Translating for a New Century
Presiding: Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut, Storrs