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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.

May 2008

"Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism," will be held May 9-11, 2008, at the University of Edinburgh. This conference, the first to consider explicitly the connection between philosophical practice and literary art in Cavell, will include major scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Professor Cavell has agreed to participate in the event. An edited volume of specially commissioned essays arising out of papers given at the conference is also planned. For more information, please contact Andrew Taylor at Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk.

June 2008

"Discovering, Constructing, and Imagining the 'Other' In The Space Between: 1914-1945," the tenth annual conference of The Space Between Society, will be held June 13-14, 2008, at Northwestern University. The conference addresses the representation or self-representation, interpretations, or history of those exiled or self-exiled, and migrant "Others" created between 1914-1945 by two world wars and the reformation of national, ethnic, racial, classed, and gendered identities and cultures, centers and margins, and diasporas. For more information, please contact Phyllis Lassner at Phyllisl@northwestern.edu.

"Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millennium," a meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R), will be held June 18-22, 2008, at the University of California, Riverside.

"The Healing Power of Ancient Literature," a symposium presented under the auspices of The Parker Institute, will be held June 19-20, 2008, in Reno, Nevada. The symposium's premise is that literature, especially ancient literature, possesses a profound power to heal our souls, a power that is especially needed today when the rapidity of change and the force of world events combine to make peace of mind an ever more distant and seemingly unreachable goal. For more information, please contact Dr. Lois Parker at loisp@unr.edu.

"Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance," an interdisciplinary and international conference hosted by The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, will be held June 26-28, 2008, at the University of Glamorgan, Cardiff. Please send enquiries to afp2008@hotmail.co.uk.

July 2008

The 2008 symposium of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes / International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM) , will be held July 9-11, 2008, at the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique in Lyons, France. For more information, please contact communication.iicp@club-internet.fr.

"Race, Environment, and Representation," a special issue of: Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, will present interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the intersection of the environment, race, and representational practices. It aims to redress the lack of conversation between critical race studies, ecocriticism, and media studies. The guest editors invite essays from a broad a range of scholars and methodologies on topics such as ethnic studies, cultural geography, visual culture, urban history, philosophy, literary criticism, American studies, environmental history, and anthropology. In bringing together diverse approaches to the problems posed by race, environmental justice, and cultural mediation, the issue will explore how attending to the uneven distribution of environmental burdens might enable political coalitions and aesthetic practices that move beyond, without leaving behind, local struggles and the politics of identity that have characterized many aspects of both environmentalism and antiracist discourses. Interested contributors should contact Discourse Guest Editors, Mark Feldman at markfeld@stanford.edu and Hsuan L. Hsu at hsuan.hsu@yale.edu.

"Crossroads in the Ancient Novel: Spaces, Frontiers, Intersections," the fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN), will be held July 21-26, 2008, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

October 2008

"Women and Power," the 2008 Women's Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Conference convened by Women's Studies Program at the University of South Dakota, will be held October 3-4, 2008. The 2008 conference will feature scholarly and creative work that treats questions of power in relation to women: the experiences, creations, theories, and practices of power that define and are defined by women as actors, objects, and modes of performance and being in the world. The conference aims to provoke discussion about women in positions of power, the vexatious roads they travel to get there, the barriers they meet, defeat, or submit to along the way, and the humorous, sad, and/or inspiring visions that arise from women's engagement with powers of all kinds-including the powers they possess themselves. The conference organizers solicit proposals for research presentations, scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, brief dramatic performances, film viewings, and creative readings on any topic that treats the diverse intertwinings of women and power. Please email abstracts (250 words) to aemerson@usd.edu or upload your electronic proposal at http://www.usd.edu/wmst/ by August 1, 2008.

"1968: A Global Perspective," the fifth annual graduate comparative literature conference at the University of Texas at Austin, will be held October 10-12, 2008. The year 1968 has become a central myth for the twentieth century, the purported moment of origin for "the present" -- for current politics, culture, and academics. This conference commemorates the 40th anniversary of 1968 by calling for a reassessment of its local and global impacts, its icons, myths, and images, the traces and absences left in its wake, and the intellectual and cultural heritages that we are still working through, as the collective memory of participants fades into a post-memory of still-incomplete projects of modernization, globalization, and liberation. Abstracts (150-250 words) should be sent to 1968conference@gmail.com by May 1, 2008.

"The 2008 Crossroads Conference," an interdisciplinary conference convened by the Organization of Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (OGSCL) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held October 11-12, 2008. The 2008 Crossroads Conference envisions a student dialogue on the extraordinary outcomes of cultural encounters, national and ideological borders, disciplines in interaction, the overlapping of distinct historical periods, the interweaving of literary genres, the symbiosis between academics and social change, and the foreplays between rhetorics of war, freedom, memory, and silence. Please e-mail your abstract (250 words) or any questions regarding the conference to umasscrossroads@gmail.com. Abstracts must be received by May 25, 2008.

"Frankly Speaking: Challenges in Integrating Languages and Cultures into a Post-Secondary Curriculum," the fall 2008 conference on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC), will be held October 15-17, 2008, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A special focus this year will be on the implications of the May 2007 MLA Foreign Language Report on CLAC initiatives nationwide. To submit a proposal for 30-minute papers or 90-minute panels on any issue relating to CLAC, please fill out a submision form (available on the conference web site) and email a one-page abstract (350 words) to clac2008@unc.edu by May 15, 2008.

"The Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation," a conference organized in association with the Conference on Christianity and Literature, will be held October 16-18, 2008, at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia. The organizers are accepting proposals for papers in English on the role/use of literature in mediating conflict and/or its relationship to Christianity. Send 100-word abstracts to lit-conf@bridgewater.edu by July 1, 2008.

"Interdisciplinarity and the Engaged Citizen: Integrating Higher Education, Public Policy, and Global Action," the thirtieth annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, will be held October 23-26, 2008, at the University of Illinois at Springfield. To submit a proposal, please fill out a submision form (available on the conference web site) by April 25, 2008. For more information, please call 217-206-7440 or email AIS2008@uis.edu.

The 2008 Biennial Conference of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars will be held October 24-26, 2008, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. For more information on the conference, please contact Kendra Leonard at caennen@gmail.com.

"Myth and Mythmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures," a conference hosted by the graduate students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at The University of Chicago, will be held October 31 - November 1, 2008, at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. The conference hopes to engage with the following questions: What is myth? Who creates them and how are they constructed? Are there conflicting myths at work in the same discourse? How are myths transmitted, and to whom? How does genre create a space in which these myths can be expressed? How do these myths influence Self/Other relationships? Are critics too quick to stress the relationship between myths and literature? The conference organizing committee welcomes papers from all theoretical perspectives in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Abstracts (250 words) should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word to mythmythmaking@gmail.com and should include the title of the presentation, your name, institutional affiliation, and phone number. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2008.

November 2008

"Fleshing out the Text," the fifth annual graduate conference of the Department of English and American Literature at Brandeis University, will be held November 7, 2008. The conference seeks to probe the discourses embracing, resisting, and constituting bodies across a broad spectrum of historical, theoretical, and literary contexts. The conference organizers invite papers that dismember, remember, and generally "flesh out" the body and its texts through critical interventions that open up and even operate upon them in provocative and unexpected ways. Panel proposals and/or paper abstracts (350 words maximum) should be sent to bodyconference@brandeis.edu by June 1, 2008.

"Stereotypes in Literatures and Cultures," a conference organized by the Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association and Baku Slavic University, will be held November 21-22, 2008. This conference aims to bring together scholars from the West and the East, with some various understanding and views to nations and cultures, offering a broad picture of current literary and cultural studies. Paper proposals may cover any conceivable aspect of the field, from empirical research to issues of theory and investigation method. The organizers invite participants from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Literary and Cultural Studies with special focus on Stereotypes and Nations. The submission deadline is May 15, 2008.

December 2008

Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities, an English-Chinese bilingual journal founded by the College of Liberal Arts at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, solicits scholarly papers for its 26th volume, which will be published in December 2008. The Diaspora and Ethnic Studies issue is committed to examining the intersection of ethnic studies with diaspora studies – how they connect and how they diverge in the trans-Pacific context. At the intersection of ethnic studies with Asian diaspora, Native American diaspora, African diaspora, Irish diaspora, and Queer diaspora lie not only profound tensions but also creative possibilities. The upcoming volume seeks submissions that explore diaspora/ethnic texts and reassess current theoretical and methodological issues in the field. Submissions should be sent to cla@mail.nsysu.edu.tw and sysjoh@yahoo.com.tw by April 30, 2008.

April 2009

"The Symbolist Movement: Its Origins and Its Consequences," an international conference organized by the University of Illinois Springfield, will be held April 22-25, 2009, at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois. 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. Abstracts (250 words) should be sent to symbolismabstracts@uis.edu by September 1, 2008. The final paper submission deadline is March 15, 2009. Please send inquiries to symbolisminquiries@uis.edu.

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. The organizers solicit interdisciplinary workshop proposals on the following plenary topics: Negotiations, Economies, Faiths and Spiritualities, and Pedagogies. Workshop proposals should be sent to crbs@umd.edu by October 1, 2008.

"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. Researchers and scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit papers addressing the impact of Darwin's ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Both disciplinary-specific and broadly interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please submit abstracts of no more that 500 words in length to Mark Wheeler at mark.wheeler@sdsu.edu no later than November 30, 2008. Accepted papers must be completed by the date of the symposium to be included in the published proceedings.

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.

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