The Posthuman and 21st Century Women’s Writing in Canada
le Français suit The Posthuman and 21st Century Women’s Writing in Canada A member-organized session for the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures Annual Conference in Ottawa as part of Congress […]
Robarts goes POP!
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Canadian Popular Culture, April 17th-18th, 2015. “The culture of a nation comprises many aspects… It includes the many ways that people express themselves in words, movement, […]
Call for Papers | Theorising the Canada-US Border
CCUSB SYMPOSIUM: Theorising the Canada-US Border University of Kent at Paris, 15-16 May, 2015 Border theory tends to be associated with the multiple strands of mestizo/a lived experience in the Mexico-US borderlands. But […]
CFP: Sex and Capital (CCLA, Ottawa, 2015)
This panel seeks innovative papers analyzing the intersections of sex and capital. On behalf of the Comparative Gender Studies Committee (ICLA) and Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA), this panel anticipates […]
Prestigious Appointment at Brandon University for Comp Lit Grad
BRANDON, MB – Boys will be boys? Man-up? Real men don’t cry? Dr. Jonathan A. Allan says the contemporary definition of masculinity is unattainable, creating ‘angry white males’ and triggering […]
CfP The Culture of Study Abroad for Second Languages
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada July 14 – 17, 2015 This conference, organized in association with the AILA-ReN on study abroad research, intends to bring together scholars and practitioners for […]
Graduate Diploma in Comparative Literature – Launch at York
The Graduate Program in Humanities at York University is delighted to announce the launch of its Graduate Diploma in Comparative Literature. To celebrate, a symposium is being held on Thursday, […]
ACLA 2015 CFP
ACLA friends – The ACLA has posted the list of seminars for the 2015 ACLA Annual Meeting (to be held at the Seattle Sheraton in Seattle, Washington). We would like […]
CFP: NeMLA Panel – “Translating the Past: Literature Across Time and Space”
The translation of non-contemporary literary texts highlights a number of difficulties that are distinct from the problems of translation of contemporary texts. This panel will explore cases in which the […]
CFP: Sens public special issue
The humanities journal Sens public is preparing a special issue honouring the late professor of Comparative Literature Bill Readings, whose 30th death anniversary will be this October. Both French and English propositions […]
Vibrant Materialities publication
Please see the special “Vibrant Materialities” issue of Imaginations Journal, collecting the work of the CCLA/ACLC Materialities working group. It includes articles by CCLA members Josh Synenko, Margot Mellet, and […]
CFP: Alexander von Humboldt, 2009: Travels Between Europe and the Americas
Researchers from all disciplines, professors and graduate students interested in travels between Europe and the Americas are invited to submit abstracts of their papers for consideration.
CFP: Contested Spaces: Conflict, Counter-Narrative and Culture From Below in Canadian and Québécois Literatures
May 1-2, 2009 Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec We invite papers which discuss the literary text as the site of contestation, counter-memory and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literatures. In […]
Call for Contributions: The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (Routledge ABES, UK)
The Centre for Postcolonial Writing (CPW) is the Editor of the Postcolonial Literary Studies Section of Routledge’s On-line bibliography, the Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), which commended in 1999 […]
Luiz Costa Lima and the Control of the Imaginary
Luiz Costa Lima and the Control of the Imaginary This year marks the 20th anniversary of the English translation and publication of Control of the Imaginary: reason and imagination in modern […]
CFP: The Poetics and Politics of Reading: Studies in Honour of University Professors Linda Hutcheon and J. Edward Chamberlin
As 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, the 20th Annual International Graduate Colloquium will celebrate its longstanding […]
CFP: Media in Transition 6
International Conference April 24-26, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology CALL FOR PAPERS In his seminal essay “The Bias of Communication” Harold Innis distinguishes between time-based and space-based media. Time-based media […]
CFP: Literature, Geography, Translation: The New Comparative Horizons (Uppsala University 11-13 June 2009)
The Departments of Literature and English at Uppsala University, in collaboration with the University of Oslo, will host a conference in Uppsala, Sweden, on 11-13 June 2009 on this theme. […]