Convocatoria #08

Queda abierta la convocatoria para la recepción de artículos del octavo número de 452^oF: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, que se publicará en enero de 2013. El envío de artículos podrá efectuarse hasta el 31 de julio de 2012. Esta convocatoria es abierta y va dirigida a todos aquellos que lo deseen y tengan los estudios mínimos de licenciatura.
Las bases que a continuación se exponen y que regulan la recepción y publicación de los distintos trabajos quedan sujetas a lo expuesto en el Sistema de arbitraje, el Manual de estilo y el Aviso legal, que pueden consultarse en el área de Procedimientos de la página web de la revista (www.452f.com).

• El plazo de entrega de los artículos termina el 31 de julio de 2012 y serán descartados los que sean recibidos con posterioridad a esta fecha.
• El número de artículos previstos para esta octava publicación es de 8-10. El 40% de los mismos provendrá de investigadores no doctorados.
• Los artículos se inscribirán, según su temática, en la parte de la revista que le corresponda (monográfico o miscelánea).
• La parte monográfica queda limitada a la publicación de 4-6 artículos y, en este octavo número, abordará los nuevos parámetros de la construcción de los sujetos líricos en la poesía contemporánea, siendo posibles, pero no excluyentes, líneas de investigación tanto de carácter práctico como teórico, como las siguientes:

a. El sujeto lírico: los límites del lenguaje y la enunciación poética.
b. Poéticas de alteridad. La busca del otro (yo/tú, cosmología, lenguaje) en la
construcción del “yo”.
c. Poesía y dinámicas del deseo: el dialogismo eroticoamoroso como fundamento de las nuevas subjetividades poéticas.
d. Representación y resignificación de los imaginarios poéticos.
e. La poesía, un género en revisión: los diálogos entre tradición y experimentación.
f. Los discursos de la poetry performance: cuerpo, voz y palabra poética.
g. La inscripción del yo lírico en los nuevos soportes: repensar el género y su recepción.

• El resto de los textos constituirán la miscelánea y, rigiéndose por los límites de la teoría de la literatura y la literatura comparada, la elección del tema y el planteamiento es libre.
• Los artículos susceptibles de publicación se enviarán a la dirección redaccion@452f.com. En el “asunto” del correo electrónico enviado se tendrá que dejar claro el apartado al que se dirige el texto (“monográfico” o “miscelánea”), el nombre del autor y el título breve del artículo.

En Barcelona, a 31 de enero de 2012
Equipo de la revista 452ºF

Call for Papers #08

The CFP for the eighth issue of 452oF: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature is now open. The forthcoming issue will be published in January 2013 and the deadline for articles submission is July 31, 2012. This CFP is addressed to anyone wishing to contribute and who holds at least a BA degree.
The criteria below regulate the reception and publication of articles and are subject to the content of the Peer-review System, the Style-sheet and the Legal Notice. These can be consulted in the Procedures area of the web page (www.452f.com).

• The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2012 – all articles received after this date will be rejected.
• The number of articles included in the eighth issue will be 8-10. 40% of these will be reserved for PhD candidates.
• According to their field of interest, the articles will be placed in the corresponding
• section of the Journal (monographic or miscellaneous).
• The monographic section of the eighth issue will consist of 4-6 articles. They should address new parameters in the construction of lyrical subjects in contemporary poetry, including both theoretical and practical approaches. Some non-exclusive topic suggestions are:

a. Lyrical subject: the limits of language and poetic enunciation.
b. Poetics of alterity. The search for the other (I / you, cosmology, language) in the construction of the I.
c. Poetry and dynamics of desire: erotic and love dialogism as fundamental basis of new poetic subjectivities.
d. Representation and resignification of poetic imageries.
e. Poetry, a genre under construction: dialogues between tradition and experiment.
f. Discourses in poetry performance: poetic body, voice and word.
g. The inscription of the lyrical I in new technologies: rethinking the genre and its reception.

• All other articles will constitute the miscellaneous section, for which the choice of topic and approach is free, as long as they fall within the margins of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
• Articles should be sent to redaccion@452f.com. The “subject” of the email should state the section the article is aimed at (“monographic” or “miscellaneous”), the author’s name and the title of the article.

Barcelona, January 31st, 2012

452^oF Journal

The Pleasures of Romance

York, United Kingdom
27-29 September, 2012

Deadline Extended to May 30, 2012
Competitive Travel Grants Available

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Roland Barthes

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde

In novels, films, TV, fan fiction, pop music, and other media, romance has been both consumed and derided because of the pleasures it imparts. Even those who deride or debunk romance may find, in that refusal, a pleasure of social distinction. Open to talks on any topic related to popular romance texts (in any medium) and to the representation of romantic love in global popular media, now and in the past, this multi-disciplinary conference will also highlight the vexed issue of “pleasure” in popular romance texts, popular romance fandom, and popular romance studies.

All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcome, from affect studies and cognitive science to literary history, middlebrow studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sociology. Proposals may focus on single authors, texts, songs, films, TV series, and marketing campaigns, or on broader, more theoretical approaches, including discussions of pedagogy. We are eager to receive proposals on older forms of popular romance (classical, medieval, early modern, etc.) and on love in Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American popular culture.

Submit proposals for individual papers, full panels, roundtables, interviews, or innovative presentations to conferences@iaspr.org by May 30, 2012. All proposals will be peer reviewed.

Travel grants will be available for presenters, on a competitive basis.

PARIS, July 18–24, 2013

Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach

The list of workshops that have been accepted for the Congress is now online on the Congress website: http://icla-ailc-2013.paris-sorbonne.fr

The deadline for all submissions (for Congress sessions as well as for specific workshops) is June 1st 2012. A proposal for a specific workshop will be reviewed first by the coordinator of the workshop and if, for one reason or another, it cannot fit in that workshop, it will then be examined by the committee in charge of the Congress sessions.

All submissions must be made online, either in French or in English, on the Congress website. Do not wait to submit your proposal (late proposals will be considered only if space permits).

XXème Congrès de l’AILC

PARIS, 18–24 juillet 2013

Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Le comparatisme comme approche critique

La liste des ateliers retenus pour le Congrès est maintenant disponible en ligne, sur le site du Congrès : http://icla-ailc-2013.paris-sorbonne.fr

Les propositions peuvent être soumises jusqu’au 1^er juin 2012, soit au titre des Sessions du Congrès soit au titre d’ateliers spécifiques (et, dans ce cas, la proposition sera d’abord examinée par le coordinateur ou la coordinatrice de l’atelier et si, pour une raison ou une autre, elle ne peut trouver place au sein de l’atelier en question, elle sera alors examinée par le comité qui évalue les propositions pour les Sessions du Congrès).

Toutes les propositions doivent être soumises en ligne, sur le site du Congrès, et rédigées en français ou en anglais. N’attendez pas pour soumettre votre proposition (les propositions reçues hors délai ne seront prises en considération que dans la mesure de la place disponible).

‘Global Dialogues’ features a range of contributions from emerging and established academics in Comparative Literature and the arts from around the world.

The ‘In Every Issue’ section features:

• ‘State of the Discipline’ by Prof. Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta (Joint Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Editor of Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University)
• ‘CL History’ by Prof. Jonathan Hart (Editor of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, former Director of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta)
• ‘U Views’ by Dr. Ken Seigneurie (Director of the Program in World Literature, Simon Fraser University – Surrey)
• ‘Media X’ by Prof. Laura Mandell (Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University)

Following the ‘Global Dialogues’ theme for this issue, articles and reviews by graduate students offer interdisciplinary and comparative analyses and discussions of interest to scholars working across the humanities. New additions to the CL Hub section add to a growing resource of practical information and unique perspectives of relevance to students, teachers and scholars of literature.

Call for Papers

Women’s Writing in Canada & Québec Today: Alliances/Transgressions/Betrayals
Écritures des femmes au Canada et au Québec aujourd’hui: alliances/transgressions/trahisons

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- October 12-14, 2012, The Banff Centre, Alberta
- Spring 2013, Montreal (dates to be confirmed)

Organizing Committee:

- Simon Harel, Director of the Department of Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal, and 2009 Trudeau Fellow.simon.harel@umontreal.ca<mailto:simon.harel@umontreal.ca>
- Marie Carrière, Director of the Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre de littérature canadienne, University of Alberta. carriere@ualberta.ca<mailto:carriere@ualberta.ca>
- Daniel Laforest, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta. daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca<mailto:daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca>
- Libe García Zarranz, PhD Candidate in English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, and 2010 Trudeau and Killam Scholar.garcazar@ualberta.ca<mailto:garcazar@ualberta.ca>

Confirmed Speakers:

- Christl Verduyn (Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies, Director of the Centre of Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, NB)
- Catherine Mavrikakis (Author, Université de Montréal, QC)
- Shani Mootoo (Author, Toronto, ON)

Focusing on the first decade of the 21st century, this two-part conference aims to expose the multiple forms, directions, and intersections of Québécois and Canadian women’s writing. In an attempt to foster new collaborations and departures, these twin conferences look for points of convergence and rupture between Canadian and Québécois women writers in the contemporary literary panorama in terms of the aesthetic and political concerns of literary texts, and also of the approaches and methodologies that critics adopt to engage with these writings. We firmly believe that a fruitful dialogue between what hasbeen commonly conceived as opposite literary traditions in Anglophone Canada, Québec and Francophone Canada is imperative in the contemporary moment in order to envision alternative forms of coalition, resistance, and struggle for women writing in Canada today. Through side-by-side and/or comparative examinations of women’s writing produced in Canada and Québec, the conferences will not necessarily attempt to bridge traditions, but rather to dislodge naive accounts and perceptions of the relationship between Québécois and Canadian women’s writing. We are interested in engaging with those dissenting voices, traditions and practices within contemporary women’s writing that advocate for the creation of alternative logics of desire and embodiment, a reconfiguration of social relations, and the formulation of alternative ethical and political positions.

The first conference will take place at The Banff Centre from October 12-14, 2012. This event will coincide with the international writers festival WordFest, thus offering an excellent opportunity to foster conversations between scholars, writers and artists in the community. Located in Banff National Park, overlooking the breathtakingRocky Mountains, The Banff Centre has become a key space for the development of the arts and cultural scenes not only in Alberta and the rest of Canada, but also internationally. With its new mission Inspiring Creativity, the Centrestands as an iconic space invested in the proliferation of learning and knowledge exchange. A number of rooms have been secured at The Banff Centre: http://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences/accommodation/.

The second conference will take place in Montreal in the spring of 2013. A different call for papers for this event will circulate later.

Proposals, submitted in English or in French, may address any form of contemporary writing by women in Québec or Canada, and focus on(but are not limited to) the following:
- Collaboration and coalitions
- Betrayals and disloyalties
- Contact zones and border crossings
- The politics and the poetics of the ‘trans-’: transnational women’s writing, transculturation, transnational poetics, transgender literature
- Ethical choices and practices
- Subjectivity and agency
- Gendered and racialized spaces
- Queer practices and authorship
- The body politic
- Corporeality and embodiment
- Interdisciplinary pedagogies
- Un-narrated urban/ rural spaces
- Contemporary turns in the Humanities: ethical turn, material turn, the affective turn
- Social movements and women’s writing
- Feminism(s) today
- Approaches, methodologies, and theory

Please send a 150-200 word proposal and a 50 word bio to cqww@ualberta.ca<mailto:cqww@ualberta.ca> by March 15, 2012. A selection of papers will be considered for publication.

Appel à communications
Écritures des femmes au Canada et au Québec aujourd’hui: alliances/transgressions/trahisons
Women’s Writing Canada & Québec Today: Alliances/Transgressions/Betrayals

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- 12-14 octobre 2012, The Banff Centre, Alberta
- Printemps 2013, Montréal (dates à confirmer)

Comité organisateur:

- Simon Harel, Directeur du département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal, Lauréat du prix Trudeau 2009.simon.harel@umontreal.ca<mailto:simon.harel@umontreal.ca>
- Marie Carrière, Directrice du Centre de littérature canadienne/Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta. carriere@ualberta.ca<mailto:carriere@ualberta.ca>
- Daniel Laforest, Professeur adjoint, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta. daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca<mailto:daniel.laforest@ualberta.ca>
- Libe García Zarranz, candidate au PhD, English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Boursière Trudeau et Killam 2010.garcazar@ualberta.ca<mailto:garcazar@ualberta.ca>

Conférencières confirmées :

- Christl Verduyn (Chaire Davidson en Canadian Studies, Directrice du Centre of Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University, NB)
- Catherine Mavrikakis (Auteure, Université de Montréal, Qc)
- Shani Mootoo (Auteure, Toronto, On)

Axé sur la première décade du XXIe siècle, ce colloque en deux volets entend mettre au jour les multiples formes, tendances, et entrecroisements de l’écriture des femmes du Québec et du Canada . Afin de susciter de nouvelles avenues et collaborations, ces colloques jumeaux rechercheront les points de convergence et de rupture entre écrivaines canadiennes et québécoises du point de vue des dimensions esthétiques et politiques des textes littéraires, ainsi que du point de vue des approches et méthodologies critiques employées en regard de ces écrits. Nous croyons qu’un dialogue neuf et fructueux est désormais impératif entre ce qui a été couramment perçu comme des traditions littéraires opposées ou divergentes dans le Canada anglophone, le Québec et le Canada francophone. Cela afin d’envisager des formes alternatives de coalition, de résistance, et de lutte pour l’écriture des femmes dans le Canada d’aujourd’hui. À travers des mises en parallèle ou des examens comparatifs des écrits des femmes au Canada et au Québec, les colloques ne viseront pas nécessairement à relier sans heurts les traditions, mais plutôt à déloger les lieux communs et les perceptions naïves qui ont cours quant à la relation entre les écritures des femmes au Québec et au Canada. Nous souhaitons nous entretenir avec les voix de la dissension, les traditions et les pratiques au sein de la sphère contemporaine qui préconisent la création de logiques alternatives du désir et de la corporéité, la reconfiguration des relations sociales, et l’inscription de positions éthiques et politiques inédites.

Le premier colloque aura lieu au Banff Centre les 12-14 octobre 2012. Sa tenue coïncidera avec le festival international d’écrivains WordFest, offrant par là une excellente occasion d’engager des dialogues entre chercheurs, écrivains et artistes oeuvrant dans la communauté. Situé dans le parc national de Banff, surplombant le paysage magnifique des Montagnes Rocheuses, le Banff Centre s’est imposé comme un lieu sans équivalent pour le développement des arts au Canada et sur la scène internationale. Fort de sa mission visant à « inspirer la créativité », le Banff Centre est devenu un fleuron canadien qui accueille chaque année parmi les plus grands noms dans toutes les disciplines artistiques. Des chambres ont été retenues au Banff Centre: http://www.banffcentre.ca/conferences/accommodation/.

Le second colloque aura lieu à Montréal au printemps 2013. Un appel de textes distinct circulera.

Les propositions, soumises en français ou en anglais, toucheront toutes les formes contemporaines de l’écriture des femmes au Québec ou au Canada, et pourront se concentrer sur les thèmes suivants (liste non exhaustive):
- Collaboration et coalitions
- Trahisons et déloyautés
- Zones de contact et traversées frontalières
- Esthétique et politique du ‘trans-’: écriture transnationale des femmes, transculture, poétiques transnationales, littérature et transgenre
- Choix et pratiques éthiques
- Subjectivité et agentivité
- Espaces raciaux ou sexualisés
- Pratiques et postures d’écriture queer
- Le corps politique
- Politiques du corps et de la corporéité
- Pédagogies interdisciplinaires
- Espaces urbains ou ruraux inédits
- Tournants contemporains en sciences humaines: tournant éthique, tournant matérialiste, tournant affectif
- Mouvements/engagements sociaux et écriture au féminin
- Féminisme(s) aujourd’hui
- Approches, méthodologies et théories

Faire parvenir votre proposition (150-200 mots) et une notice biographique (50 mots) à l’adresse cqww@ualberta.ca<mailto:cqww@ualberta.ca> avant le 15 mars 2012. Une sélection parmi les contributions sera retenue pour publication ultérieure.

Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, 20–23 September 2012

Poetic discourse in Canada has always been changing to assert poetry’s relevance to the public sphere. While some poets and critics have sought to shift poetic subjects in Canada to make political incursions into public discourses, others have sought changes in poetic form as a means to encourage wider public engagement. If earlier conversations about poetics in Canadian letters, such as those in the well-known Toronto Globe column “At the Mermaid Inn” (1892-93), sought to identify an emerging cultural nationalism in their references to Canadian writing, in the twentieth century poetics became increasingly focused on a wider public, with little magazines, radio, and television offering new spaces in which to consider Canadian cultural production. In more recent decades, many diverse conversations about poetics in Canada have begun to emanate from hyperspace, where reviews, interviews, Youtube/Vimeo clips, publisher/author websites, and blogs have increased the “visibility” of poetry and poetics.

Acknowledging the work that emerged from the 2005 “Poetics & Public Culture in Canada Conference,” as well as recent publications considering publics in the Canadian context, we are interested in examining a growing set of questions surrounding these and other discursive shifts connected with Canadian poetry and poetics. How have technological innovations such as radio, television, and the Internet, for example, made poetry and poetics more accessible or democratic? How does poetry inhabit other genres and media in order to gesture toward conversations relevant to political, cultural, and historical moments? What contemporary concerns energize those studying historical poetries and poetics? How do commentators in public and academic circles construct a space for poetry to inhabit?

The conference sets out to explore the changing shapes of and responses to poetic genres, aesthetic theories, and political visions from a diverse range of cultural and historical contexts. In the interest of reinvigorating conversations about the multiple configurations of poetics, poetry, and the public in Canada, we invite proposals for papers (15–20 minutes) on subjects including, but not limited to:

• Public statements/declarations of poetics
• Publics and counterpublics in Canadian poetry
• The politics of public poetics –Tensions between avant-and rear-garde poetics in Canada
• Shifting technological modes of poetic and critical production (print/sound/video/born-digital)
• Poetics of/as Activism
• Public Intellectualism and Poetics
• Recovery and remediation of Canadian poetry and poetics
• Poetics and collaboration in Canada
• People’s poetry and /or the People’s Poetry Awards
• Poetry and environmental publics in Canada

Proposals should be no more than 250 words and should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract and a 50-word biographical note. Please send proposals to publicpoetics@mta.ca by 29 February 2012. For more information visit www.publicpoetics.ca.

In conjunction with the conference, a one-day workshop will be hosted by The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada. This purpose of this workshop (CWRCshop) is to introduce, in accessible and inviting ways, digital tools to humanities scholars and to encourage digital humanists, via a turn to close reading, to connect with the raw material, which is the basis of digitization efforts.

The PUBLIC POETICS conference is organized by Bart Vautour (Mt. A), Erin Wunker (Dal), Travis V. Mason (Dal), and Christl Verduyn (Mt. A). The conference is sponsored by the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, the Canadian Studies Programme at Dalhousie University, and The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada. We plan to publish a selection of revised/expanded papers as a special journal issue and/or a book with a university press.

http://acla.org/acla2012/?page_id=1131

Parameters of Change: Perception of Minorities in Comparative Perspective

Seminar Organizer(s):

• Monika Albrecht (University of Limerick, Ireland, (Monika.Albrecht@ul.ie), Giuliana Adamo (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Integration, assimilation, and many related issues such as the recent European retreat of multiculturalism are subject to vigorous scholarly, political and public debates. While TV and TV film/series in many European countries nowadays prominently represent people with a migrant background, writers and other artists with origins in those countries tend to be rather hesitant to include ‘other’ Europeans in their works. All the more of interest are those who do. The panel shall focus on the question of how writers, filmmakers and other artists from a wide range of non-migrant European backgrounds are envisioning the development of an ethnically diverse Europe. We are most interested in their inherent visions of multicultural or ethnically diverse societies, that is, in their idea of how it could work and how it would not work, in the preconditions under which acceptance of difference is possible and in the conditions that make it more difficult. The panel should cover roughly the last four decades of cultural productions on ‘other’ Europeans with a special emphasis on changes and potential turning points throughout these years (including and beyond 9/11).

Overview articles are most welcome, but also papers on individual writers/artists. We are in particular looking for papers that address, but are not limited to, one of the following topics:

• ‘guest workers’ in mainstream literature of the 1970s and 1980s,
• processes of normalization and leveling of differences,
• dividing minorities into good and bad, desired and not desired,
• the new stereotype of the perfectly integrated migrant,
• the migrants’ place in the collective imagination and fantasy of the ‘natives,’
• merging of minority perception with other contemporary issues,
• pros and cons of 9/11 as a caesura in the perception of minorities.

Any other means of engaging with the perception of minorities are welcome!

Congrès 2012 – Perspectives comparées sur les croisées de chemins et les contre-courants

Les croisées de chemins sont des intersections critiques, des points de jonction où des décisions sont prises, et où des orientations aux conséquences d’envergure sont choisies. Les contre-courants, quant à eux, se fondent l’un dans l’autre, stimulant et agitant les débats.

Dans le cadre du Congrès de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines organisé conjointement par les Universités Wilfrid Laurier et Waterloo, du 27 au 29 mai 2012 l’Association canadienne de littérature comparée (ACLC) offre à ses membres l’opportunité d’approfondir les concepts de « croisée de chemin » et de « contre-courant », ainsi que leurs implications pour la discipline. Quels sont les principaux contre-courants de la littérature comparée en 2012? La littérature comparée au Canada est-elle à la croisée des chemins, internationalement ou globalement? Comment ses travaux en sont-ils informés par des chemins de croisées et des contre-courants avec d’autres disciplines? Comment des chemins de croisées et des contre-courants peuvent-ils êtres mobilisés dans ses approches aux textes, aux genres, et aux pratiques culturelles?