ACLA 2001: University of Colorado, Boulder
TOPOS/CHRONOS
Aesthetics for a New Millennium
Friday, April 20 to Sunday, April 22, 2001

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SEMINARS

 

ACLA 2001 Home | Proposed Seminars | Conference Registration & Hotel Information | acla2001@stripe.colorado.edu

ACLA 2001 will explore the many diverse topologies and chronologies that now shape or may one day shape experience, identities, and representations, both individual and collective. We shall thus review the many spatial themes that have attracted recent critical interest: frontiers and borders; nations and nationalisms; globalization and nomadism; the hegemonic center and its subaltern margins; homeland and exile; the geopolitics of North and South; the ancient yet still contemporary confrontations of East and West. But we shall also revisit the many temporal problems on which critical debate has focused: history and historical periods; modernity versus post-modernity; tradition and revolution; canons and constructions; "places of memory" and the virtual worlds of utopia, dystopia, science fiction, or hypertext. By coupling (re-coupling) themes of time and space, we shall ask among other things what a "transcendental aesthetic" for the millennium might look like.

The conference Program Committee invites proposals for both individual papers and seminars on any topic falling under the conference title's ample rubric. In addition to those mentioned above, prospective participants and seminar organizers might consider:

    • the space-time of aesthetic forms
    • the space-time of cultures, languages, historical institutions
    • rethinking time/rethinking space
    • the space-time of rhetoric (topoi, models, "theaters of memory")
    • chronotopes and "life worlds"
    • modernities revisited
    • what was "post-modernism" anyway, and what did we mean by it?
    • ancients and moderns, Old Worlds and New
    • the "eternal return" and the temporality of art
    • cultural geographies
    • topographies of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race
    • histories of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race
    • "real time" and media time
    • the colonial, the post-colonial, and after
    • universalisms and their alterities
    • refiguring discourses
    • aesthetic absolutes and the poetics of space
    • music/image/cinema/hypertext: literature and other media
    • the Theory/History debate revisited
    • Kubrickisms: 2001/The Shining

The Program Committee e-mail address for seminar proposals, calls for papers, and individual paper proposals is: acla2001@stripe.colorado.edu. Proposals, calls, etc., may also be addressed by regular mail to:

Prof. Christopher Braider
University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of French & Italian
Campus Box 238
Boulder, CO 80309-0238

or to:

Prof. Paul Gordon
University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Comparative Literature & Humanities
Campus Box 331
Boulder, CO 80309-0331

The deadline for seminar calls and proposals is August 1, 2000. The deadline for individual paper proposals is October 1, 2000.

Seminar proposals (including paper titles, participants' names and addresses, and a brief abstract describing each paper, together with a paragraph or summary CV describing each participant) should specify the organizer's name and both mailing and e-mail addresses. Organizers may propose either a complete list of participants or a partial list; or they may simply submit a call for papers, giving a seminar title and a brief description (no more than 150 words) for inclusion on the ACLA 2001 webpage. Partial lists of seminar participants should also be accompanied by a call for papers, seminar title, and a brief description for the conference webpage. Proposals for individual papers (including a 250-word abstract and a summary CV or biographical paragraph) should be addressed both to the ACLA 2001 Program Committee and to the relevant seminar organizer (if any).

Please note: Participants in the conference are limited to presenting only one paper. Please also note that participants in the annual meeting must be current members of the ACLA. Membership forms can be found at the ACLA website at http://www.acla.org/. Membership application/renewal forms will also accompany conference pre-registration material. In order to be listed in the conference program, please be sure to obtain/renew membership by 1 February 2001. (Exceptions may be made for participants not based in literature who attend the conference on a one-time basis. Please contact the ACLA Secretariat at info@acla.org for any such requests.)

last modified 11 November 2000