Seminars

Please select a seminar for which you would like to propose a paper. Current ACLA guidelines specify that each ACLA member may submit only ONE PAPER for consideration. Abstracts must be received by Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST.

Post-Violence: The Telling and the Told, Sec. 2

Organizer: Yiru Lim

When we hear, read, or watch a narrative of a violent or traumatic event, we are often fixated on its representation. We hang on to details about location; we want to find out who the perpetrators... more

Medical Humanities: Social Construction of Illness, Disability, and Ageing, Section 2

Organizer: Dr Pravin K Patel

Medical/Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary approach to understand and explore not only the profound effects of illness and disease on people but also the social and cultural sphere... more

Transnational Southeast Asian Literatures and the World, Sec. 2

Organizer: Howie Tam

Much has changed since Benedict Anderson conceptualized the idea of the nation as an imagined community nearly four decades ago. Primarily, borders have become more porous as the trans-nation emerges... more

Translation and Reparation (Organized by the ICLA Translation Committee), Sec. 2

Organizer: Isabel Gómez

The ICLA Translation Committee invites papers exploring the relationship between translation and reparation in the context of multiple, overlapping global crises. Given that translation often serves... more

Narrating and Visualizing Youth, Sec. 2

Organizer: Miao Dou

This seminar explores the importance of youth in various cultural and intellectual contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The period witnesses the rise of and, more recently, the... more

Graphic Narrative as a Nexus of Diverse Cultures, Sec. 2

Organizer: Noriko Hiraishi

Graphic Narrative as a Nexus of Diverse Cultures A seminar sponsored by the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative Graphic narrative is no less important locus for... more

Constructing the Other: Empathy and the Ethics of Imagining Difference in Literature, Sec. 2

Organizer: Arnab Roy

A central question engaging literary scholars today is, can the practice of reading literature make humans more empathetic, particularly towards those who do not share similar socio-cultural or... more

Anthropomorphism, Metamorphism, Transmorphism, Sec. 2

Organizer: Keijiro Suga

Anthropomorphism begins with the accidental finding of a face. We humans perceive faces everywhere. If we see two dots and a short line, a face emerges. Once the outlines appear, the face becomes... more

Exilic Subjectivities in Arabic Literature: Belonging and Estrangement , Sec. 2

Organizer: Jonas Elbousty

This seminar aims to bring together scholars with an interest in examining exilic subjectivities, with a particular focus on how the concepts of belonging and estrangement have been explored in... more

ACLA Undergraduate Seminar: “Representing Crisis”, Sec. 2

Organizer: Nicoletta Pireddu

Since ancient times, literature and other aesthetic forms have engaged with various manifestations of crisis, from social revolutions and wars, personal and family struggles, economic recessions and... more

Global Histories of Crime Fiction: Redefining a Popular Genre, Sec. 2

Organizer: Jesper Gulddal

Crime fiction today is a uniquely global genre in the sense of being written, published, sold and read on a significant scale on all continents and in almost every country. It is also global in the... more

Contrapuntal China, Sec. 2

Organizer: Kyle Shernuk

Edward Said posits “contrapuntal reading” as a postcolonial intervention into the master narrative of imperialism by considering the voices, narratives, and perspectives of the colonized and the... more

The Strange, the Marvelous, and the Exotic in Early Modern China and Europe, Sec. 2

Organizer: Andrew Hui

The Strange, the Marvelous, and the Exotic in Early Modern China and Europe This seminar seeks to bring together scholars of late imperial China and scholars of early modern Europe (1400-1700,... more

Text in and through Space: Transnationality, Translocality, and Transmediality, Sec. 2

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

Refugee Nations and Unimagined Cartographies: Migration, Displacement and Homelessness in Contemporary Geopolitics, Sec. 2

Organizer: Mohammad Asim Siddiqui

The widespread phenomenon of migration and displacement in the contemporary geo-political climate exhibited by the notions of mobility, borderlessness, protracted displacement, statelessness, penal... more

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Seminars

Post-Violence: The Telling and the Told, Sec. 2

Medical Humanities: Social Construction of Illness, Disability, and Ageing, Section 2

Transnational Southeast Asian Literatures and the World, Sec. 2

Translation and Reparation (Organized by the ICLA Translation Committee), Sec. 2

Narrating and Visualizing Youth, Sec. 2

Graphic Narrative as a Nexus of Diverse Cultures, Sec. 2

Constructing the Other: Empathy and the Ethics of Imagining Difference in Literature, Sec. 2

Anthropomorphism, Metamorphism, Transmorphism, Sec. 2

Exilic Subjectivities in Arabic Literature: Belonging and Estrangement , Sec. 2

ACLA Undergraduate Seminar: “Representing Crisis”, Sec. 2

Global Histories of Crime Fiction: Redefining a Popular Genre, Sec. 2

Contrapuntal China, Sec. 2

The Strange, the Marvelous, and the Exotic in Early Modern China and Europe, Sec. 2

Text in and through Space: Transnationality, Translocality, and Transmediality, Sec. 2

Refugee Nations and Unimagined Cartographies: Migration, Displacement and Homelessness in Contemporary Geopolitics, Sec. 2

Refuge, Asylum, and Reconstructions of Home and Homeland, Sec. 2

Paracolonial Formations, Sec. 2

Optical Mediation and the Uncanny: Ambivalence and Illusionism, Sec. 2

Narrative Mapping and the Interdisciplinary Study of Home and Homeland, Sec. 2

Literature and Media, Sec. 2

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