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.