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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.

 

January 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Educating the Imagination: A Conference in Honour of Northrop Frye on the Centenary of His Birth. October 4 - 6, 2012, Victoria University in the University of Toronto

Twenty years after his death, Northrop Frye, the author of Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism, continues to be one of the most read and the most quoted of literary critics. His attention to form, specifically to genre and mode, and his understanding of literature as a totality have directly influenced two later generations of critics, including Hayden White, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti. In order to celebrate this ongoing legacy, the Department of English and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Frye's home throughout his career, have organized a three-day symposium in his honour. Keynote speakers include Ian Balfour (York University) author of Northrop Frye (1988), The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (2002); Robert Bringhurst, poet, author of A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (1999) and Selected Poetry (2009); J. Edward Chamberlin (University of Toronto) author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993) and If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? (2003); Michael Dolzani (Baldwin-Wallace College) editor of Frye's Notebooks; W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) editor of Critical Inquiry and author of What Do Pictures Want? (2005) and Picture Theory (1994); Gordon Teskey (Harvard University) author of Delirious Milton (2006); Allegory and Violence (1996)

There will be panels devoted to Frye's specific legacy, which we are now in a better position to appreciate because of the completed publication of the Collected Works in thirty volumes. But we also invite speakers to take inspiration from Frye and to consider literary and cultural topics such as: 1. Educating the Imagination when the Humanities are under threat Frye and Comparative Literature 2. the place of Western Literature and theory in a global context. The spread and the provincialization of Europe. The limits of the Great Code 3. Contemporary manifestations of traditional literary modes: the popular romance,contemporary tragedy, irony after postmodernism 4. creative responses to the Bible in an era of fundamentalism and secularism 5. The survival of the literary imagination in a digital age 6. Canadian literature in a postnational age 7. The Great Code and Islam 8. History as Narrative 9. Nature in an era of environmental crisis 10. Local literature, local forms

Proposals for papers or panels of papers are welcome. Abstracts of 200 words (for papers) are due January 31, 2012. Please send them by e-mail to frye.2012@utoronto.ca.

 

 

February 2012

Radical Maneuvers: Discourses of the New Call for Abstracts
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY April 28th, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Tracy McNulty, Cornell University

The Undergraduate Comparative Literature Association at Cornell University cordially invites submissions of 300-500 word abstracts by other undergraduates for twenty-minute papers for its first annual undergraduate conference.

In light of such recent, radical movements as the Arab Spring in the Middle East, the demand for a complete re-shaping of Europe’s economic system, and the recent division of what was once the Sudan into two separate countries, it is worth considering what exactly the concepts of “new” and “radical” mean, especially in the context of literature and art. Is a work of literature or art that is “new” necessarily “radical”? How do we define “radicality”? How do we measure the “radicality” of one work compared to another? To what extent is the “new” or “radical” quality of a work defined by its social and historical context, rather than by any inherent characteristic of the work itself? How does the “aesthetic” quality of a work of literature or art relate to its “newness”? To what extent can the “newness” of a work of art or literature be attributed to a targeted maneuver on the part of the creator to steer a given society or ideology in a particular direction?

Some Possible Paper Topics include the following, but any topic related to the theme is encouraged:

Comparing innovative Works across nations and time periods
Emergent Technology and Invention in the Arts
Works Ahead of their Time, past and present
Radical theory in relation to radical or conventional practice
Texts of Revolution
Radical Forms
Radical translations for alternative readerships
New frameworks of time and space, in antiquity and today

A small stipend for travel to the location of the colloquium may be possible, but cannot be guaranteed. Participants should expect to fund the majority of their transportation costs themselves. However, the organizers will make every effort to house attendees with local students and to provide some meals and social events. Abstracts should be sent to: radicalmaneuvers@gmail.com Deadline: Feb. 1 Please see our website for more information: wix.com/radicalmaneuvers/new

 

SUNY at Buffalo Romance Languages and Literatures Graduate Romance Studies Journal

Humanities at the Limit Call for papers

Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2012

In recent years, the humanities have been facing a crisis guided by corporate measures taking place in universities across the globe. The changes occurring in the university demand many academic departments to justify their relevance and applicability in our world today. We face a need to redefine what the humanities are in the twenty‐first century and more specifically the role of the modern language and literature departments in the new humanities.

Scholars across disciplines have begun to engage in interdisciplinary conversations that address the current state and the future of the humanities. By participating in this debate, we aim to redefine our place inside and outside of the university.

This volume seeks to re‐examine the position of the humanities in the university by looking specifically at Romance languages, literatures, and cultural studies. By reflecting on our role within the universal whole of higher education we hope to assert the vitality of the humanities in the twenty‐first century.

Possible topics include:
‐ studies of culture, literature and/or second language acquisition in the 21st century
‐ human language and its social interactions
‐ cultural texts: media, film, internet, architecture
‐ interdisciplinary studies
‐ new and/or evolving disciplines
‐ recycling the humanities
‐ humanities and geopolitics
‐ digital humanities
‐ “meta‐humanities”
‐ listening to Other voices
‐ defining “human” through texts

Please send abstracts (250‐300 words) with a proposed title as an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF to: UBRomance@gmail.com. All abstracts as well as papers must be in English. Completed essays must be submitted by April 1, 2012, following MLA formatting guidelines. Final essays should be between 15‐20 pages (including notes, bibliography, etc.).

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University at Buffalo, North Campus
910 Clemens Hall Buffalo, NY 14260

 

 

The 13th annual Literary Festival and Scholars’ Day will be held at Newman University in Wichita, KS on March 29th -31st, 2012.

This year’s theme is “Lands of Unlikeness: Mysterious Landscapes in Literature.” The keynote speaker is Scott Cairns, author of Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven, Compass of Affection, The Sacred Place, and many other books. Guest speakers will include Clare Vanderpool, Michael Austin, and Bryan D. Dietrich.

Interdisciplinary or creative approaches to this or other topics are welcome and encouraged.

Submit 250-word abstracts to Dr. Bryan Dietrich at kryptonnights@yahoo.com by Monday, February 13th. For more information, call 316-942-4291, ext. 2341.

 

WagnerWorldWide2013: America
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
January 31-February 2, 2013

In recognition of Richard Wagner’s bicentennial in 2013, the University of South Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Music are hosting a conference for Wagner scholars from all disciplines.

The conference is part of a multi-year global initiative by the University of Bayreuth (www.fimt.uni-bayreuth.de ) under the heading WagnerWorldWide 2013 which will examine Wagner and his significance through five core areas:
•Environment and Nature •Gender and Sexuality
•Media and Film
•History and Nationalism
•Globalization and Markets

Submissions are encouraged that address one or more of these topics. All conference sessions will be plenary, and divided between panels with three 20-minute talks, and roundtable discussions with up to 10 participants, each with a 5-minute position paper. The conference proceedings will be broadcast via live-stream on the internet and later as podcasts.

There are plans for a live audience in Bayreuth and possibly elsewhere to be linked via video-conference. All lectures will be given in English. Additional discussions, questions, and suggestions may be added through Facebook (WagnerWorldWide 2013).

Abstracts of max 250 words for talks and/or position papers must be uploaded via the conference website (www.cas.sc.edu/www2013/call_for_papers ) no later than February 15, 2012. Abstracts should include contact information (mail, email and telephone) and institutional affiliation. Group submissions are also welcome. The group organizer should upload a single document. Advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to apply. Three $500 graduate student travel stipends will be offered on a competitive basis.

For more information about the multi-year project, please visit: www.cas.sc.edu/www2013 Questions and correspondence, including inquires concerning the graduate student travel stipends, should be directed to Nicholas Vazsonyi (vazsonyi@sc.edu). .

 

March 2012

The North American Victorian Studies Association Conference for 2012, in Madison, Wisconsin, September 27-30, invites papers on the theme of networks.

Keynotes include Amanda Anderson, Adam Phillips, and a visual networks panel with Caroline Arscott, Tim Barringer, Julie Codell, and Mary Roberts. Participants will also be able to sign up for networks seminars of 15 presenters of precirculated 5-page position papers on the topic.

March 1, 2012 is the deadline for electronic submissions of proposed papers and panels. We welcome proposals of no more than 500 words for individual papers; for panel proposals, please submit abstracts of 500 words per paper and a panel description of 250 words. Please include a one-page cv and submit all files in .pdf format to english.wisc.edu/navsa.

Conference threads might include:
 Networks of artists, critics, consumers, scholars
 Networks of print (books, chapbooks, newspapers, magazines, letters, pamphlets), including relations among publishers, printers, editors, writers, readers
 Commodity culture networks and the circulation of things and bodies
 Networks of discourse (such as science, religion, nature, politics)
 The science of networks, then and now
 Textual networks (characters, plot, language, intertextuality)
 Networks of influence, production, reception
 Networks of display or exhibition
 Fashioning networks among otherwise unconnected authors and historical figures
 Transnational and other migrations: geographic, cultural, ideological, rhetorical
 Borders and "borders" -- theorizing cultural connection, separation, entanglement
 Diasporic networks: cosmopolitanism, wandering, exile
 Clandestine networks such as spies, secret agents, and detection
 Networking technologies
 Network arts
 Social networks including leisure clubs and professional societies
 Family and kinship networks
 Victorian cities: streets, arcades, parks, or other networks of urban space
 Imperial networks
 Network forms: gossip, blackmail, suspense, serials,, periodicals, or other genres
 Psychic and supernatural networks: seances, spiritualism, mediums
 Digital networks and twenty-first century reading practices
 Networked periodization: romantic/victorian/modernist
 Networks of resistance: feminist, ecological, queer
 Networks of iteration and translation (between image, text, adaptation)

 

Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2012) Singapore, 9 - 10 July 2012

Paper Submission (Full Paper) Deadline 9 March 2012
Acceptance Notification 5 April 2012
Final Paper Submission Deadline 20 April 2012
Early Bird Registration Deadline 7 May 2012
Late Registration Deadline* 8 June 2012

CONTACT US CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF) 10 Anson Road, International Plaza, Singapore 079903
DID : +65 6327 0166
Fax : +65 6327 0162
For General Enquiries : info@l3-conference.org
For Registration, Accommodation or Visa Assistance : secretariat@l3-conference.org

 

Third Annual Mid-America Humanities Conference at the University of Kansas (March 9-10, 2012) "World as Text: Text as World"

"World as Text: Text as World" seeks to investigate historical and contemporary practices of reading and writing the world, broadly conceived. As a forum for interdisciplinary student research, MACH encourages participation from students in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts: anthropology, religious studies, art history, literatures and languages, history, women's studies, media studies, visual arts, geography, theatre, dance, sociology, film, American studies, and other interdisciplinary programs.

The conference takes place March 9 and 10, 2012 at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (35 miles from Kansas City); paper presentation of 15-20 minutes within panels. Keynote speaker: Prof. Jerome Silbergeld (Art & Archeology and East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University).

 

Panel: Diversifying Jewish Experience in the Americas

II Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies Crossing Boundaries in the Americas: Dynamics of Change in Politics, Culture, and Media

Universidad de Guadalajara 24-27 September 2012

This seminar will be the continuation of the panel “Diversifying Jewish Literature and Experience in the Americas” that took place at the ACLA, the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, in Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007. Organizer: Luz Angélica Kirschner, Bielefeld University, Germany

The U.S. American popular imagination tends to think of Jews as a monolithic, affluent, middle-class community that is white and of Ashkenazic ancestry, i.e. of German and Eastern European origin. In fact, non-Jewish and Jewish audiences in the U.S.A. and on the rest of the American continent frequently perceive U.S. American Ashkenazic definitions of Jewishness and Jewish experience as the authentic expression of Jewishness. To little avail have Jewish and non-Jewish scholars attempted to correct and contest the persistent attribution of cosmopolitan “whiteness” to the Jewish presence in the U.S.A. For example, Abraham D. Lavender has called attention to the need to contextualize the multifarious and specific experiences of Jews in the nation which also includes poor white Jews, Sephardic Jews, Jewish women, Black Jews, Hassidic Jews, and Jews in the Southern states of the U.S.A. Additionally, Caren Kaplan has suggested that the construction of the hegemonic narrative of “white” Jewish identity in the nation has been based on the exclusion of “other” Jews in the U.S.A., that is to say, Arab, Latino, African, Asian, and South Asian Jews.

Concurrently, Latin American scholars like Stephen A. Sadow and Edna Aizenberg have decried the Euro-U.S.-centrism of Jewish Studies that to an important extent have remained ignorant of Jewish diaspora communities in Latin American countries. These scholars suggest that the self-centered ideology of U.S. American Jewishness has virtually ignored the diaspora experiences of coreligionists in the Spanish- and Portuguese speaking countries in Latin American nations. In the effort to contribute to the correction of the pervasive U.S. American picture of Jewish experiences in the Americas, this panel seeks contributions that bear witness to the Jewish experience of the aforementioned communities that have been excluded from the hegemonic narrative of the Jewish experience in the American continent in U.S. America, but also in Canada, the Caribbean region, and all Spanish and Portuguese speaking Latin American countries. Comparative papers that engage with the histories, experiences, and works of different communities at national, international or transnational level are preferred. This panel also welcomes contributions from as wide a disciplinary background as possible and encourages submissions from history, literary history, literature, painting, dance, photography, music, digital art, sculpture, political science, sociology, anthropology, and other fields that study the Jewish lives and cultures in the Americas. Papers can be presented in Spanish or English.

Submission deadline for 300-words abstracts: March 15, 2012 The best proceedings of this panel will be published in Europe and the U.S.A. Details about publication will be given in due time. For more questions about this panel contact Luz Angélica Kirschner at luz_a.kirschner@uni-bielefeld.de or lak273@gmail.com

 

Call for Papers: Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature Literary Violence

Inquire invites article submissions that consider the relationship between literature and violence.The representation of violence in literature is commonplace and complex, occurring by various means (e.g., physical, psychological), in many forms, across all literary traditions, past and present. Literature can expose, challenge or oppose violent conditions, yet literature can also fall victim to violence, arising from internal (e.g., institutional) or external (e.g., political, economic) forces. In focussing this issue on violence (understood broadly as the exercise or exhibition of force, including any act of oppression, intimidation or unwanted control by individuals or groups, for whatever purpose), Inquire seeks to provide a forum for the investigation of tensions—private and public, regional and global—that speak to the cultural and historical production of identity and community.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2012.

Inquire is an international, peer-reviewed journal of comparative literature based at the University of Alberta. Inquiries and submissions can be sent to inquire@ualberta.ca.

 

CFP: Edited Volume on The West in Asia/Asia in the West

In her seminal 1993 volume entitled Stella d’India, temi imperiali britannici, modelli di rappresentazione dell’India (republished in English in 2011 under the title Star of India, Imperial Themes, The Other Face of English Literature, Modes of Representing the Subcontinent), Italian scholar Lina Unali laid the foundation for the development of literary and critical studies focusing on the relationship between Asia and the West. Workshops organized and chaired at international conferences such as EAAS, AIHA and MESEA; lectures and papers delivered in numerous countries (particularly in India and China); the creation of the “Asia and the West” international conference (held annually at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata since 2000); the establishment of the intercultural studies center Asia and the West/Asia e Occident, at the same university; as well as many groundbreaking publications in this area are just a few of the contributions that Lina Unali has made to this transnational and transdisciplinary field of academic inquiry.

This volume of essays, which is currently under consideration by a major university press, takes Professor Unali’s work as its point of departure while celebrating her scholarly activity and intellectual engagement over the years.

The co-editors seek submissions (full-length manuscripts of between 5,000 and 7,000 words in Chicago Manual footnotes—not parenthetical—style) that take Lina Unali’s writings, the “transnational turn” in Asian Studies, and/or the interstitial material between “Asia and the West” as their focus (submissions can also include those which consider Professor Unali’s contributions to other fields such Italian and Anglophone Studies). We also seek submissions on topics including, but not limited, to:
• The relationship between British and/or American writers and Asia
• Western travellers to Asia
• Eastern travellers to the West
• Transnational interlopers (historic/literary figures who embody the transnational tapestry)
• The construction of “the Orient”
• New trends and developments in transnational studies
• The politics of Asian American Studies
• Asian American/Asian British literature and the “canon”
• Asian American and Asian British digital culture and the Internet
• Bilingualism and biculturalism in the Asian American and Asian British contexts
• The Asian American and Asian British immigrant experience
• Italian American immigrants and their oral histories
• Italian American women writers
• Hybridity, diaspora and borders
• Fusion/Fragmentation/Intertextuality
• (Post)colonial Studies
• Asian American/Asian British Arts (visual, theatrical, cultural, oral traditions, etc.)
• Asian American/Asian British life-writing (incl. travel writing, journals, diaries, and memoirs)
• Translation/interpretation/adaptation
• Identity, representation, race, class and gender
• Globalization, citizenship, mobility
• Teaching the West in Asia/Asia in the West

Abstracts (max. 700 words) and one-page bios should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to Drs. Elisabetta Marino marino@lettere.uniroma2.it and Tanfer Emin Tunc tanfer.emin@gmail.com by March 31, 2012. After the preliminary acceptance of abstracts, contributors will be asked to submit manuscripts by August 15, 2012. We reserve the right to reject full-text submissions that do not meet editorial standards, and anticipate a Fall/Winter 2013 publication date.

 


May 2012

The 9th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium, July 27-29, 2012.

Sponsored by The Academy of the Shaw Festival and the International Shaw Society, the 9th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario will take place on July 27-28-29, 2012 at the Festival Theater, centered around the two Shaw plays in the 2012 repertory.

For details about Bryden Scholarships/ISS travel grants, registration, accommodations, schedules, etc., please go to www.shawsociety.org/SummerSymposium-2012.htm. For the full repertory season, see www.shawfest.com.

Proposals for papers (of 20 minutes maximum and focused as much as possible on Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance and/or The Millionairess, or on comparisons between them and other plays or between Shaw and other playwrights in the Festival repertory) should be sent to Dr. Brad Kent, preferably as an attachment to an email (to Brad.Kent@lit.ulaval.ca), or by mail to Professor Brad Kent, Département des littératures, Pavillon Charles De Koninck, bureau 3307, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, CANADA. Include a 300-500 word abstract and, if you’re new to him, a brief letter of introduction and a c.v.

Those applying for scholarships/grants should submit additional information (see website for a form and instructions). Deadline for both abstracts and scholarship/grant applications is May 1, 2012.

June 2012

Call for essays: Culture Theory and Critique special themed issue on The "Newness" of New Media

Editors Ilana Gershon, Indiana University (igershon@indiana.edu) and Joshua A. Bell, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution (bellja@si.edu)

Outside of the West, communities have traditionally innovated and engaged different forms of media, whether using textiles, dog's teeth, valuables or abacus. These myriad forms remain integral to the networks of communications and relations. Today the new media technologies of the Internet, mobile phones and social networking sites provide another venue for innovation and continuity. Within the Western context, historians of media have demonstrated how new media sparks exaggerated fears that intimate connections will be harmed when a technology is introduced. Thus part of the "newness" of new media is an often-repeated expectation that new forms of representation will disrupt established social organization. In this special issue, we hope to explore how the "newness" of new media is experienced outside of Euro-America, ranging from how communities have and are responding to the introduction of writing to the introduction of mobile phones and social networking sites. This has a strong historical component; many of our questions arise from the aftermath of colonial encounters. Two themes guide these ethnographic explorations: the "newness" of new media for dialogue and the "newness" of new media for representation.

The first theme explores the ways new media is understood to change how dialogue and dissemination are intertwined. In Speaking Into the Air, John Durham Peters argues that in the Western context, people historically feared new media because every new medium alters a precarious balance between dialogue (dyadic conversational turn-taking) and dissemination (broadcasting). As new media becomes incorporated into daily life, each technology becomes valued accordingly. People see each new technology as changing how dialogue or dissemination take place, which introduce new possibilities and new risks to communication. In this issue, authors ask: how are the ways people’s historically situated understandings of how dialogue and dissemination should be interwoven affecting how people responded to new media? How are people's epistemological assumptions and social organization shaping how they incorporate particular communicative technologies?

The second theme examines how new media become grounds by which communities can challenge misrepresentations, and assert their identities. If new media enable new forms of collaboration and participation, how then have they enabled communities to manage more effectively how their representations travel? How has this shifted historically from colonial to postcolonial moments? What new forms of creative play have emerged in the process, and how have older forms been extended? If the materiality of media matters as argued by Webb Keane and others, how have these new media forms altered or continued existing representational economies? Whose networks are being extended or cut in the process? To what extent is new media understood as re-structuring previously established forms of exchange and knowledge circulation? How have these evolving relationships shifted the ways in which scholarship is being, and or should be done?

We welcome essays that address either of these themes. The questions are not meant to be proscriptive, however, and we welcome queries about possible article content and submissions from graduate students.

Completed essays need to be submitted by June 1, 2012 at which time the editors will make initial decisions. The length of final essays are to be 5,000-7,000 words including notes and please follow the citation style found at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1473-5784&linktype=44.

Send abstracts and essays to Ilana Gershon (igershon@indiana.edu), Joshua A. Bell (bellja@si.edu) or Jennifer Heusel, editorial assistant (ctcjourn@indiana.edu).

Culture, Theory and Critique is a refereed, interdisciplinary journal for the transformation and development of critical theories in the humanities and social sciences. It aims to critique and reconstruct theories by interfacing them with one another and by relocating them in new sites and conjunctures. Culture, Theory and Critique' approach to theoretical refinement and innovation is one of interaction and hybridization via recontextualization and transculturation.

 

August 2012

 

 

GENERAL CALLS FOR PAPERS


Book Series on East-West Cultural Encounters in Literature, The Series seeks scholarly works on intercultural encounters in literature, particularly East-West precolonial, colonial, or postcolonial contacts that expose, problematize, or re-create the sense of locality, historicity, and subjectivity. The Series especially welcomes monographs written in English or other languages translated into English. Collections of essays from conference papers or with multiple authors are not under consideration unless the essays with a thematic focus are written by a single author. We also encourage the submission of revised doctoral dissertations with innovative concepts related to our topics.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:
•Colonial history and culture in the countries of the Asian Pacific Rim;
•Transpacific or transatlantic cultural or literary route/root;
•New cultural identities in neocolonial and global Asia;
•The relationship between Asia and Oceania;
•The contacts between Asia and Europe or Americas;
•Theoretical paradigms of globality and worlding;
•Convergences and divergences of exile, diaspora, and expatriation;
•Asian diasporic writing in the new millennium;
•Cultural translations between Sinophone, Anglophone, Francophone and/or Hispanophone literatures.

A leading university in the world, National Taiwan University is striving for more international collaborations and scholarly exchanges. NTU Press, playing an important role in disseminating top-notch research and scholarship in the Chinese-speaking academe, is now expanding its scope of publication in English. All submissions will be assessed by the Editor and reviewed by anonymous readers. Once the book project is approved, the author(s) will receive a contract from NTU Press. Please send a book prospectus, the author’s CV, and a sample chapter to the Editor. The manuscript should employ the MLA format and style, and only a completed manuscript is under consideration. Editor-in-chief Dr. Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu (bennettfu@ntu.edu.tw) Associate Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures National Taiwan University.

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.intertexts.org/id2.html.

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 send an email to sym@heldref.org.

Inquire, a new peer-reviewed international journal of Comparative Literature to be published online by the graduate students of the Program of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta beginning January 2011, aims to build upon the successes of Comparative Literature as a multifaceted discipline that emphasizes the study of minor literatures and languages, translation, and literary theory by providing the space for informed discussion and creative research by graduate students.

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 39 No. 1 |

March 2013 Special Issue Call for Papers “Documenting Asia Pacific”

Guest Editors: Kuei-fen Chiu & Chi-hui Yang Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2012

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published two times per year by the Department of English, NationalTaiwanNormalUniversity, Taipei, Taiwan. The journal is devoted to offering innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric welcomes original contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. The March 2013 issue of Concentric is dedicated to exploring new directions in documentary and non-fiction media-making practices in the Asia Pacific region. Dynamic political and economic conditions, innovations in production and distribution technologies, increased access to international finances and the migration of moving images from theatres to galleries to online spaces have made more relevant and critical the practice of documentary filmmaking in Asia Pacific. The task of representing new social realities has generated significant movements—both political and aesthetic—in documentary filmmaking from Beijing to Manila, from Jakarta to Sydney. Engaged verite, documentary/fiction hybrids, personal essays and experimental collage are being used to explore the consequences of globalization and neo-liberalism, fraught family histories, religious conflict, and the role of the state in everyday lives. What kind of formal and aesthetic approaches are being developed to document the contemporary culture and politics of Asia Pacific? How is the documentary itself being tested and reshaped by these efforts? What might be revealed from a study of localized movements, and what might comparative studies across national or cultural boundaries yield? Concentric invites examinations of all aspect of contemporary documentary and non-fiction media-making in the Asia Pacific region.

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites essays on topics related to any and all aspects of human values, including aesthetic, moral, political, economic, scientific, or religious values. We welcome essays on a wide variety of topics. Additionally, we are interested in submissions related to plans for two special issues: one on themes related to debt, indebtedness, or more generally, financial difficulties; and another focused on the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of World War I. For these issues, as more generally, we welcome work from a variety of disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approaches, including the arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, and religion, among others. To submit an essay, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/soundings. Questions may be directed to soundings@admin.fsu.edu 

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