Nov 24th, 2008
CFP: CCLA Meeting Congress 2009
CONGRESS OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, CARLETON UNIVERSITY Ottawa, Ontario, May 23 – 25 2009 Comparative Spaces: Changing Territories 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Join us at Carleton University to celebrate the discipline of Comparative Literature in Canada. Espaces comparés : changement de territoires et territoires en changement [...]
Nov 24th, 2008
CFP: Special Panel Congress 2009: Transnationalism and Beyond
Transnationalism, transculturation, diaspora, migrancy, postcoloniality, ethnicity, multiculturalism, mestizaje, creolization, these are only some of the rubrics that literary critics employ as a corrective to the national paradigm of literary study and to call into question singular cultural, national and linguistic allegiances. Such terms are variously evoked in discussions of immigration, mobility, temporary and permanent forms [...]
Nov 21st, 2008
CFP: 9th Graduate Conference in Comparative Canadian Literature
THE CHALLENGES OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: TRANSFORMING AND REDEFINING LITERARY AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec – March 26th, 2009 This conference will explore the role of comparative studies in understanding the trans/formation(s) and re/definition(s) of Canadian and Québécois literatures. We are interested in identifying the strengths and limitations of comparative literature and therefore [...]
Oct 30th, 2008
CFP: Representation of the Self and the Other (Athabasca University Press)
The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts.
Oct 30th, 2008
CFP: Representation of the Self in Iranian Literature, Art, and Film (Athabasca University Press)
The publication seeks articles that explore emerging concepts about the representation of the self and identity in contemporary Iranian film/television, fiction/non-fiction, and the visual arts.
Oct 18th, 2008
CFP: Transplanting Canada: Inaugural CLC Colloquium, University of Alberta, Edmonton (6-7 March 2009)
The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne (CLC) at the University of Alberta seeks to bring together researchers who are interested in the ways in which the literatures of Canada can be said to “travel” or “move” from one “place” to the other. Lest anyone be put off by this preponderance of “scare quotes,” let [...]
Oct 14th, 2008
CFP: Migration, Border, and the Nation-State (4/9-4/11/09)
The joint conference looks for presentations that investigate new meanings, assumptions, and implications of migration, border crossing, and nation building as well as papers that explore the representations of emigration, borderlands, and nation-states in different cultural forms, literary genres, and technological media. We welcome both proposals that examine the interrelations among migration, border, and the [...]
Sep 26th, 2008
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. Papers should address, mutatis mutandis, each of the terms “literature”, “geography” and “translation” within a transnational frame. Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2008.
Aug 14th, 2008
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 such as stone or clay, Innis agues, can be seen as durable, while space-based media such as paper or papyrus can be understood as portable, [...]
Aug 8th, 2008
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 place as a nexus of provocative thinkers on and influential theories of reading: its nature, its significance, its politics. Beginning with the watershed work of [...]
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