Jul 13th, 2009
CfP: Retours sur le passé & visions d’avenir: The Next 100 Years of Liberal Arts – Confronting the Challenges
L’internationalisation, le corporatisme, l’appauvrissement de l’investissement gouvernemental, et l’héritage de l’implication ecclésiastique font partie des défis ayant un impact sur l’enseignement des arts libéraux. Ces réalités entament l’autonomie, la responsabilité et peut-être même l’integrité de l’enseignement des arts libéraux. Le point de mire de cette conférence est multidisciplinaire ; elle s’adresse particulièrement aux membres du [...]
Jun 10th, 2009
Call for contributions: Re-mapping Europe: History, Memory, Identity in Claudio Magris’s Narratives and Plays
Claudio Magris is one of the most authoritative voices on the question of the literary and cultural re-mapping of modern Europe. From his early work of literary criticism Il mito asburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna (1963; Engl. The Habsburg Myth in Modern Austrian Literature) to the recent novel Alla cieca (2005; Blindly – forthcoming in [...]
Jun 10th, 2009
CFP: Representations of European Identity (October 1-3, 2010 – University of Guelph, On)
A Three-Day International Conference on Representations of European Identity Paper and/or panel proposals are invited for a 3-day multi-disciplinary international conference on representations of European identity: ‘Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other.’ Submissions are encouraged from a wide range of disciplines, with particular emphasis on literature, film, history, [...]
Jun 6th, 2009
South Asia's Orients (NeMLA's 41st Annual Convention, April 7-11, 2010, Montreal
Call for Papers: South Asia’s Orients 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-11, 2010, Montreal, Quebec – Hilton Bonaventure Deadline for submitting abstracts or proposals: September 30, 2009 Panel description: Many scholars have examined travel accounts and trans-cultural encounters between Westerners and non-Westerners (Edward Said, Stephen Greenblatt, Peter Hulme, Mary Louise Pratt, [...]
Apr 9th, 2009
(CFP: due 4/30/09) 2010, The 19th Congress of International Comparative Literature Association
Congress Theme: Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature In this era of globalization, Comparative Literature faces new challenges. As an academic discipline, for the past ten years Comparative Literature has had to embrace or often compete with other emerging interdisciplinary studies, including cultural studies, regional studies and translation studies. Today, as new technologies redefine the [...]
Apr 7th, 2009
CfP: Freud After Derrida (University of Manitoba, 6-9 October 2010)
Proposals are invited for presentations that engage Freud’s work as it continues to inform and provoke research and discussion across the disciplines (e. g., architecture, film, history, literature, philosophy, religion, science), and particularly, as it opens through and “after Derrida.” We welcome consideration of such topics as: temporality, space, technics, responsibility, animality, embodiment, memory, dream, [...]
Mar 24th, 2009
Northeast Modern Language Association 2010 Annual Convention (Montreal, Quebec; April 7-11, 2010)
Experience the lively and intimate exchange that NeMLA offers at its 41st annual convention in downtown Montreal, sponsored by McGill University. Featuring over 320 panels, the 2009 convention in Boston richly represented all subject areas of the modern languages and literatures, covering a broad spectrum of scholarship and advancing innovative approaches to teaching. Propose a [...]
Feb 23rd, 2009
CFP: Going Caribbean!
International Conference Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art University of Lisbon, November 2 – 3, 2009 This conference aims to open up new perspectives through the comparative study of Fiction and Art from the broader Francophone, Hispanic, Dutch, and Anglophone Caribbean as well as their respective Diasporas. A comparative perspective urges us [...]
Nov 29th, 2008
CFP: Cultures Across Borders: Negotiating the Global and the Local
In the words of Fredric Jameson, globalization, a concept with no “privileged context,” “falls outside the established academic disciplines,” thus necessarily calling for an interdisciplinary perspective and methodology and questioning the limits of traditional disciplinary areas. How does Comparative Literature respond to and participate in the discourse on and of globalization? We invite you to [...]
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