Seminars

Anyone who would like to organize a seminar for our 2022 Annual Meeting (June 15-18, 2022, National Taiwan Normal University) must first post a call for papers here. Calls for papers will be accepted through Thursday, September 30.

The Cineplastic in Asian Television and Cinema

Organizer: Ignacio Choi

The Cineplastic in Asian Television and Cinema The displacements brought about by the pandemic is beyond imagination. Or, are they? Do the changes it brings about, in form and in path, share the... more

Multilingual, Transregional, Comparative Approaches to South Asian Literature

Organizer: Ulka Anjaria

The concept of South Asian literature is inherently unstable; South Asia is a regional term that covers several countries, some of which are still enemies recovering from shared histories of violence... more

Histories Revisited in Doctorow's Ragtime

Organizer: Marwan Abdi

This article offers a postmodern reading of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime which is labeled as a Historiographical Metafiction. It highlights some of the avant-garde strategies Doctorow utilize... more

Transition, Transformation, Metamorphosis in Modern Literature and Arts

Organizer: Lily Li

In the stories of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, everything continually becomes something else, a pervasive dynamic that emerges in virtually all artistic media; hence, there are images that evolve into other... more

Anti-colonial Aesthetics and the Global Cold War

Organizer: Jini Kim Watson

In recent years, the Cold War has been theorized as a global process that coincided with and intercepted decolonization, resulting in the very creation of the Third World or Global South (Westad 2005... more

Text in and through Space: Transnationality, Translocality, and Transmediality

Organizer: Yipeng Shen

How are texts produced, circulated and consumed in transnational, translocal, and transmedial spaces? What roles do gender, ethnicity, class, and nation-states play in cross-spatial reception of... more

Island of Shattered Dreams, 15 Years On: Reframing Francophone Oceanian Studies.

Organizer: Nathalie Segeral

2022 marks the 15th anniversary of the publication of Jean Anderson’s English translation of Chantal Spitz’s "L’île des rêves écrasés," a turning point in the reception and production of contemporary... more

Collaborative Intellectual Labor Today

Organizer: Gabriele Lazzari

In recent decades, the practice of collaborative intellectual labor has had an unexpected resurgence, both among writers and artists, and within scholarly and academic spaces. Drawing on a rich... more

Unjust Philologies in the “Modern” University

Organizer: Tanvi Solanki

In this seminar, we wish to examine how people of different positionalities vis a vis the ‘center’ and ‘peripheries’ of modern research universities, practice comparative literary studies within... more

The elusive woman

Organizer: christina kkona

Scholarly interest in portrayals of female errancy has mainly focused on works of previous eras, from Ariosto’s women wanderers to Francisco López de Úbeda’s La picara Justina (1605) to Frances... more

The Cultures of Global Post/Socialisms

Organizer: Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Our panel seeks work on cultural productions that contribute to comparative assessments of the globality of state socialism and its legacies, which we designate in the term post/socialism (Chari and... more

Mobilizing Creativity in the Humanities

Organizer: Kiene Brillenburg Wurth

Every inventive nature continuously produces one shape from another. Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary and adopt a new form. Ovid, Metamorphoses This... more

Counter media, counterpublics, resistance

Organizer: Tatjana Aleksić

Unlike the term counter culture, which roughly designates opposition to mainstream cultural trends, the term counter media has received little engagement, and then almost exclusively in relation to... more

Literature and Technology: Reclaiming the Legacy of Fiction?

Organizer: Ana Ilievska

In this panel, we would like to think through the topic of Literature and Technology starting from the following provocative statement: “by claiming complete conceptual and creative novelty in the... more

Ruin and Reenactment: Staging Memory in Literature and Film

Organizer: Nefeli Forni

How is the representation of space as both a means of representation of memory, and, more broadly, of a social imaginary, constructed in literature and film? How does the “staging” of such space,... more

Fantasy and Global Cities, 1830-1930

Organizer: Klaudia Lee

Despite the claims of critics such as Rosemary Jackson and Stephen Prickett that modern fantasy is, in part, a reaction to industrialization, few projects have explored nineteenth- and early-... more

Voice: Enunciation, Meaning, Representation

Organizer: John Un

Voice has been a privileged term for many literary explorations. The term implies subjectivity, a source of discourse, and a particularity to enunciation; voice thus designates not only speech, but... more

World Literature and Moral Injury

Organizer: Renee Randall

The term “moral injury” entered our vocabularies in 1994. Responding to his experience treating US military veterans of the war in Vietnam, psychologist Jonathan Shay nuanced what had until then... more

Entangled Waterscapes in Asia

Organizer: Kwai-Cheung Lo

Waterscape appeals to scholars interested in the entanglements between waters and politics in Asia. Modern capitalism and imperialism were enabled by the sea which liberated politics and economy from... more

Comparative Migration

Organizer: Maya Aghasi

This panel aims to compare flows of migration, broadly conceived, in and around Asia. Migration includes international migration, for instance, South-East Asians or Arabs migrating to countries in... more

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