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.