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	ACLA Conferences and Calls for Papers Listings The ACLA maintains a listing of conferences and calls for papers, aside from the ACLA's Annual Meeting. Please email the ACLA to post conference information. The ACLA also has links to other conference lists. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Please email the ACLA with information and addresses of other websites that list conferences or calls for papers related to comparative literature. June 2009 "Understanding Superheroes," an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Oregon, will be held October 23-24, 2009. The conference is conceived as an interdisciplinary multi-media event, held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition of original comic art at the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The conference organizers invite 1-2 page proposals for 20-30 minute conference papers considering the implications of superhero fantasies on the understanding of such diverse topics as gender identity, queerness, theological yearning, and nationalist politics. Please address queries and submit proposals via email to Ben Saunders by June 30, 2009. July 2009 "Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism," the 3rd International Symposium organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature (Tbilisi, Georgia), will be held. The symposium will be held in an unattended form (approved participants do not have to attend the symposium, they need only to submit materials and they will be published). The symposium is dedicated to the issues of contemporary literary studies, the problems of Georgian and World literature, literary relations and influences in the context of historical and intercultural communications. Abstracts (250 words) and registration forms should be sent electronically to the Organizing Committee at maillit@litinstituti.ge. by July 1, 2009. "Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse (20th century experience)," an International Scientific Conference organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in partnership with Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) and with the support of the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli Foundation) will be held October 7-9, 2009. The conference is dedicated to the analysis, evaluation, revision and reinterpretation of ongoing literary processes against the background of 20th century. Working languages of the conference are Georgian, English and Russian. Paper titles, abstracts (250 words), and registration forms should be sent electronically to the Organizing Committee at maillit@litinstituti.ge. by July 20, 2009. Registration is now open for the BCLT's annual international Literary Translation Summer School to be held July 19 - 25. The Summer School brings together renowned writers and translators for an intensive week of workshops, round tables, seminars and readings. In 2009, a translation workshop from Chinese into English will be offered for the first time. Other workshops are offered into English from French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and from English into Italian. In each workshop, participants work with a writer-in-residence under the guidance of an experienced literary translator. Details can be found at www.uea.ac.uk/bclt. "Travels Between Europe and the Americas," the fifth international and interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt conference, will be held July 27-31, 2009, at Freie Universität in Berlin. The purpose of the conference is to explore the origins of Symbolism, a variety of Symbolist manifestations in art, literature, music and philosophy, its consequences in art and literature, and to understand how ideas moved from one European country to another. "Consider David Foster Wallace," an international conference hosted by the University Of Liverpool, will be held July 29-30, 2009. This conference is devoted to discussion and scholarly appraisal of Wallace's work. Athabasca University Press seeks submissions for a publication entitled Representation of the Self and the Other. The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts. Please submit an electronic version of your article in MSWord along with a 150 word abstract and a 50 word bio with an emphasis on related publications and/or presentations to Dr. Manijeh Mannani, AU Press manijehm@athabascau.ca by July 31, 2009. August 2009 Submissions are solicited for an edited volume entitled "Re-mapping Europe: History, Memory, Identity in Claudio Magris's Narratives and Plays." Claudio Magris is one of the most authoritative voices on the question of the literary and cultural re-mapping of modern Europe. From his early work of literary criticism Il mito asburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna (1963; Engl. The Habsburg Myth in Modern Austrian Literature) to the recent novel Alla cieca (2005; Blindly - forthcoming in English by Penguin Canada in 2010), Magris's texts have addressed the unstable ground from which history and memory can evaluate the recent European past, just as they have examined the ambivalence and often ephemeral existence of every frontier in its political, cultural, social, and personal dimension. His pursuit as a writer and as a literary critic is the understanding and the crossing of boundaries between history and time, between apparently opposite and irreconcilable views of the world, between memory and loss. After the success of best-sellers like Danubio (1986; Danube) and Microcosmi (1996; Microcosms), Magris's recent narratives and plays - La Mostra (2001; The Exibit), Alla cieca, Lei dunque capira (2006; You Will Finally Understand) - continue to break new ground in the direction of formal experimentation and the re-addressing of literary genres. This collection of essays in English aims to explore Magris's narratives and plays, and to contextualize them within the current literary and cultural debates on European identity, history, and memory. Abstracts (500 words) of the paper together with a bio-bibliogaphical profile (200 words) of the author should be submitted to Sandra Parmegiani by August 1. A 6500-word essay in the Modern Language Association of America format (MLA) should be submitted in electronic format by November 15. Athabasca University Press seeks submissions for a publication entitled Representation of the Self in Iranian Literature, Art, and Film. The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary Iranian film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts. Please submit an electronic version of your article in MSWord along with a 150 word abstract and a 50 word bio with an emphasis on related publications and/or presentations to Dr. Manijeh Mannani, AU Press manijehm@athabascau.ca by August 31, 2009. September 2009 The David Mitchell Conference, hosted by the University of St Andrews, will be held September 3-4, 2009. The conference welcomes papers from any discipline, a variety of theoretical perspectives and those which engage with media beyond that of the written text. Freud After Derrida, an international interdisciplinary conference hosted by Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, will be held October 6-9, 2010. Proposals are invited for presentations that engage Freud's work as it continues to inform and provoke research and discussion across the disciplines (e. g., architecture, film, history, literature, philosophy, religion, science), and particularly, as it opens through and “after Derrida.” The organizing commitee welcomes consideration of such topics as: temporality, space, technics, responsibility, animality, embodiment, memory, dream, writing, the uncanny, life, death, desire, repetition, law, sovereignty, sexuality, silence, mourning, testimony, the unconscious, repression, identity, family. Abstracts (450-500 words) should be sent to mosaconf@cc.umanitoba.ca by September 8, 2009. Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society, with guest editors Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today. Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors. Papers (5,000 to 10,000 words) should be submitted to encounters@zu.ac.ae by September 15, 2009. "Globalization: Implications for the Mediterranean Region", the 3rd International Conference of The Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies, will be held September 17-18, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia. October 2009 "Aesthetics and Intermediality: Transmedial Concepts and Phenomena", a conference hosted by Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies in cooperation with Aarhus University, will be held October 22-24, 2009. The aim of the conference is to investigate and illuminate issues of transmedial phenomena and media transformations from a broad, theoretical perspective (aesthetic, social, historical), and to address the complex of problems from both general and analytical, inductive angles. November 2009 "Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord," a symposium organized and hosted by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, will be held November 5-7, 2009. "150 Years of Evolution - Darwin's Impact on the Humanities and Social Sciences," a symposium in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Origins of Species, will be held November 20-22, 2009, at San Diego State University. December 2009 "Sjani" ("The Thoughts"), an annual peer-reviewed international journal of literary theory and comparative literature published by Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and Georgian Comparative Literature Association, seeks submissions for an upcoming issue. The publication welcomes articles covering philology, literature, literary theory, criticism, comparative studies, culture and aesthetics. Articles can be written in Georgian, English, German, Russian or French languages. Please see the citing style for scientific publications of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature at http://www.litinstituti.ge/english/cit-ingl-stile.htm. For further information please contact maillit@litinstituti.ge. Submissions are due on December 20, 2009. April 2010 "Conceptualising Literary History: Foundations of Arabic Literature, 7th-17th Centuries," a conference held in cooperation with the Universite de Paris VIII-Saint Denis, will be held April 16-18, 2010, at Yale University. The conference invites participants to identify and examine the foundations that Arabic literature laid down from the 7th to 17th centuries, across the whole geographical area to which the practice of Arabic literature spread. The suggested emphasis is on the social and cultural interactions that led to the laying down of new points of departure, regardless of whether these proved durable or ephemeral. The aim is to find a new framework in which Arabic literary history is no longer seen as impervious for centuries to vernacular and foreign interference. Issues to be addressed are: the elaboration of the `arabiyya; the consciousness of the uptake into Arabic literature of the Indian, Middle Persian and Ancient Greek heritages; the imagined community of Arabic; the relationship between mainstream Arabic literature and other Arabic literatures; the relationship between Arabic and non-Arabic literatures; and the emerging and vanishing of Arabic genres. August 2010 The XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) will be held August 15-21, 2010, at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. October 2010 "Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other", a three-day international conference on representations of European identity, will be held October 1-3, 2010, at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The conference is intended to be as wide-ranging as possible in addressing the manner in which European identity has been and continues to be represented, including European self-representations as well representations by others, whether 'internal' or 'external' to the entity that is Europe. GENERAL CALLS FOR PAPERS Intertexts, a journal of comparative and theoretical reflection, publishes articles that employ innovative approaches to explore relations between literary and other texts, be they literary, historical, theoretical, philosophical, or social. In particular, the editors are looking for work which engages issues on a sufficiently theoretical or comparative level to interest people in a variety of disciplines. Hybrid methodologies that combine elements from a range of disciplines are encouraged. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website at http://www.languages.ttu.edu/intertexts/. Symposium, a quarterly journal in modern foreign literatures, welcomes contributions pertinent to modern languages and literatures. Research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative studies, is regularly featured. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website, featured on the ACLA's journals listing page or send an email to sym@heldref.org. Please visit these sites for more calls for papers: UPenn calls for papers Voice of the Shuttle calls for papers CLC calls for papers Papers Invited American Philosophical Association Aesthetics Online calls for papers American Cultures & Global Contexts (University of California-Santa Barbara) calls for papers Eserver Calls for Papers UCLA's Asia Institute's calls for papers listing H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online calls for papers Queer Theory's calls for papers listing Erract Impact's calls for papers The University of Maryland's Woman's Studies listing of calls for papers Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center (Claremont Colleges) calls for papers PopCulture.com listing of conferences and calls for papers Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment calls for papers listing

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11about \| annual meeting \| acla prizes \| graduate students \| acla resources

	announcements \|\| conferences \|\| travel grants \|\| journals \|\| associations \|\| research
	ACLA Conferences and Calls for Papers Listings The ACLA maintains a listing of conferences and calls for papers, aside from the ACLA's Annual Meeting. Please email the ACLA to post conference information. The ACLA also has links to other conference lists. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Please email the ACLA with information and addresses of other websites that list conferences or calls for papers related to comparative literature. June 2009 "Understanding Superheroes," an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Oregon, will be held October 23-24, 2009. The conference is conceived as an interdisciplinary multi-media event, held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition of original comic art at the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The conference organizers invite 1-2 page proposals for 20-30 minute conference papers considering the implications of superhero fantasies on the understanding of such diverse topics as gender identity, queerness, theological yearning, and nationalist politics. Please address queries and submit proposals via email to Ben Saunders by June 30, 2009. July 2009 "Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism," the 3rd International Symposium organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature (Tbilisi, Georgia), will be held. The symposium will be held in an unattended form (approved participants do not have to attend the symposium, they need only to submit materials and they will be published). The symposium is dedicated to the issues of contemporary literary studies, the problems of Georgian and World literature, literary relations and influences in the context of historical and intercultural communications. Abstracts (250 words) and registration forms should be sent electronically to the Organizing Committee at maillit@litinstituti.ge. by July 1, 2009. "Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse (20th century experience)," an International Scientific Conference organized by the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in partnership with Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA) and with the support of the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences (Rustaveli Foundation) will be held October 7-9, 2009. The conference is dedicated to the analysis, evaluation, revision and reinterpretation of ongoing literary processes against the background of 20th century. Working languages of the conference are Georgian, English and Russian. Paper titles, abstracts (250 words), and registration forms should be sent electronically to the Organizing Committee at maillit@litinstituti.ge. by July 20, 2009. Registration is now open for the BCLT's annual international Literary Translation Summer School to be held July 19 - 25. The Summer School brings together renowned writers and translators for an intensive week of workshops, round tables, seminars and readings. In 2009, a translation workshop from Chinese into English will be offered for the first time. Other workshops are offered into English from French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and from English into Italian. In each workshop, participants work with a writer-in-residence under the guidance of an experienced literary translator. Details can be found at www.uea.ac.uk/bclt. "Travels Between Europe and the Americas," the fifth international and interdisciplinary Alexander von Humboldt conference, will be held July 27-31, 2009, at Freie Universität in Berlin. The purpose of the conference is to explore the origins of Symbolism, a variety of Symbolist manifestations in art, literature, music and philosophy, its consequences in art and literature, and to understand how ideas moved from one European country to another. "Consider David Foster Wallace," an international conference hosted by the University Of Liverpool, will be held July 29-30, 2009. This conference is devoted to discussion and scholarly appraisal of Wallace's work. Athabasca University Press seeks submissions for a publication entitled Representation of the Self and the Other. The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts. Please submit an electronic version of your article in MSWord along with a 150 word abstract and a 50 word bio with an emphasis on related publications and/or presentations to Dr. Manijeh Mannani, AU Press manijehm@athabascau.ca by July 31, 2009. August 2009 Submissions are solicited for an edited volume entitled "Re-mapping Europe: History, Memory, Identity in Claudio Magris's Narratives and Plays." Claudio Magris is one of the most authoritative voices on the question of the literary and cultural re-mapping of modern Europe. From his early work of literary criticism Il mito asburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna (1963; Engl. The Habsburg Myth in Modern Austrian Literature) to the recent novel Alla cieca (2005; Blindly - forthcoming in English by Penguin Canada in 2010), Magris's texts have addressed the unstable ground from which history and memory can evaluate the recent European past, just as they have examined the ambivalence and often ephemeral existence of every frontier in its political, cultural, social, and personal dimension. His pursuit as a writer and as a literary critic is the understanding and the crossing of boundaries between history and time, between apparently opposite and irreconcilable views of the world, between memory and loss. After the success of best-sellers like Danubio (1986; Danube) and Microcosmi (1996; Microcosms), Magris's recent narratives and plays - La Mostra (2001; The Exibit), Alla cieca, Lei dunque capira (2006; You Will Finally Understand) - continue to break new ground in the direction of formal experimentation and the re-addressing of literary genres. This collection of essays in English aims to explore Magris's narratives and plays, and to contextualize them within the current literary and cultural debates on European identity, history, and memory. Abstracts (500 words) of the paper together with a bio-bibliogaphical profile (200 words) of the author should be submitted to Sandra Parmegiani by August 1. A 6500-word essay in the Modern Language Association of America format (MLA) should be submitted in electronic format by November 15. Athabasca University Press seeks submissions for a publication entitled Representation of the Self in Iranian Literature, Art, and Film. The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary Iranian film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts. Please submit an electronic version of your article in MSWord along with a 150 word abstract and a 50 word bio with an emphasis on related publications and/or presentations to Dr. Manijeh Mannani, AU Press manijehm@athabascau.ca by August 31, 2009. September 2009 The David Mitchell Conference, hosted by the University of St Andrews, will be held September 3-4, 2009. The conference welcomes papers from any discipline, a variety of theoretical perspectives and those which engage with media beyond that of the written text. Freud After Derrida, an international interdisciplinary conference hosted by Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, will be held October 6-9, 2010. Proposals are invited for presentations that engage Freud's work as it continues to inform and provoke research and discussion across the disciplines (e. g., architecture, film, history, literature, philosophy, religion, science), and particularly, as it opens through and “after Derrida.” The organizing commitee welcomes consideration of such topics as: temporality, space, technics, responsibility, animality, embodiment, memory, dream, writing, the uncanny, life, death, desire, repetition, law, sovereignty, sexuality, silence, mourning, testimony, the unconscious, repression, identity, family. Abstracts (450-500 words) should be sent to mosaconf@cc.umanitoba.ca by September 8, 2009. Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society, with guest editors Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today. Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors. Papers (5,000 to 10,000 words) should be submitted to encounters@zu.ac.ae by September 15, 2009. "Globalization: Implications for the Mediterranean Region", the 3rd International Conference of The Center for Integrative Mediterranean Studies, will be held September 17-18, 2009 in Richmond, Virginia. October 2009 "Aesthetics and Intermediality: Transmedial Concepts and Phenomena", a conference hosted by Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies in cooperation with Aarhus University, will be held October 22-24, 2009. The aim of the conference is to investigate and illuminate issues of transmedial phenomena and media transformations from a broad, theoretical perspective (aesthetic, social, historical), and to address the complex of problems from both general and analytical, inductive angles. November 2009 "Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict, Concord," a symposium organized and hosted by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, will be held November 5-7, 2009. "150 Years of Evolution - Darwin's Impact on the Humanities and Social Sciences," a symposium in honor of Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Origins of Species, will be held November 20-22, 2009, at San Diego State University. December 2009 "Sjani" ("The Thoughts"), an annual peer-reviewed international journal of literary theory and comparative literature published by Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature and Georgian Comparative Literature Association, seeks submissions for an upcoming issue. The publication welcomes articles covering philology, literature, literary theory, criticism, comparative studies, culture and aesthetics. Articles can be written in Georgian, English, German, Russian or French languages. Please see the citing style for scientific publications of Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature at http://www.litinstituti.ge/english/cit-ingl-stile.htm. For further information please contact maillit@litinstituti.ge. Submissions are due on December 20, 2009. April 2010 "Conceptualising Literary History: Foundations of Arabic Literature, 7th-17th Centuries," a conference held in cooperation with the Universite de Paris VIII-Saint Denis, will be held April 16-18, 2010, at Yale University. The conference invites participants to identify and examine the foundations that Arabic literature laid down from the 7th to 17th centuries, across the whole geographical area to which the practice of Arabic literature spread. The suggested emphasis is on the social and cultural interactions that led to the laying down of new points of departure, regardless of whether these proved durable or ephemeral. The aim is to find a new framework in which Arabic literary history is no longer seen as impervious for centuries to vernacular and foreign interference. Issues to be addressed are: the elaboration of the `arabiyya; the consciousness of the uptake into Arabic literature of the Indian, Middle Persian and Ancient Greek heritages; the imagined community of Arabic; the relationship between mainstream Arabic literature and other Arabic literatures; the relationship between Arabic and non-Arabic literatures; and the emerging and vanishing of Arabic genres. August 2010 The XIXth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) will be held August 15-21, 2010, at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. October 2010 "Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other", a three-day international conference on representations of European identity, will be held October 1-3, 2010, at the University of Guelph, Ontario. The conference is intended to be as wide-ranging as possible in addressing the manner in which European identity has been and continues to be represented, including European self-representations as well representations by others, whether 'internal' or 'external' to the entity that is Europe. GENERAL CALLS FOR PAPERS Intertexts, a journal of comparative and theoretical reflection, publishes articles that employ innovative approaches to explore relations between literary and other texts, be they literary, historical, theoretical, philosophical, or social. In particular, the editors are looking for work which engages issues on a sufficiently theoretical or comparative level to interest people in a variety of disciplines. Hybrid methodologies that combine elements from a range of disciplines are encouraged. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website at http://www.languages.ttu.edu/intertexts/. Symposium, a quarterly journal in modern foreign literatures, welcomes contributions pertinent to modern languages and literatures. Research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative studies, is regularly featured. For more information and for submission details, please visit the journal's website, featured on the ACLA's journals listing page or send an email to sym@heldref.org. Please visit these sites for more calls for papers: UPenn calls for papers Voice of the Shuttle calls for papers CLC calls for papers Papers Invited American Philosophical Association Aesthetics Online calls for papers American Cultures & Global Contexts (University of California-Santa Barbara) calls for papers Eserver Calls for Papers UCLA's Asia Institute's calls for papers listing H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online calls for papers Queer Theory's calls for papers listing Erract Impact's calls for papers The University of Maryland's Woman's Studies listing of calls for papers Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center (Claremont Colleges) calls for papers PopCulture.com listing of conferences and calls for papers Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment calls for papers listing

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