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 [...]
Aug 4th, 2008
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 times (1988), a groundbreaking work by Brazilian intellectual, Luiz Costa Lima. To celebrate this event Crossroads has published a selection of work from Costa Lima [...]
Jul 20th, 2008
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 and has just been remodelled and relaunched for 2008. The CPW is expanding its network of annotators in the area of Postcolonial Literature. Our contributors [...]
May 19th, 2008
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 what ways do marginalized individuals, communities, and social movements contest, appropriate, and represent their specific memories, spaces, and identities as counter-discourses of nation or as [...]
May 15th, 2008
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.
Mar 26th, 2008
CFP: NEOHELICON Special Number: Poetics of the Paratext
The “paratext,” here defined as any textual accompaniment exterior to the text proper and yet intrinsically bound to it (prefaces, prologues, prolegomena, forewords, codas, authorial appendices, marginal notes, didascalia and other scripturally-conjoined paraphernalia) constitute the focus of this special number. Priority will be accorded to papers exploring the theoretical consequences and/or poetic operations of paratextual [...]
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