CCLA – Fantastical Constellations after Magical Realism Working Group Call for Proposals
CCLA Annual Conference / Colloque annuel de l’ACLC The Fantastical Constellations after Magical Realism Working Group invites proposals for a panel or round table topic, “Entangled Futures: Interstitial Fantasies from […]
First Anniversary of the Research Group “Literatures and Religions: Interconnected Narratives”
This month marks one year anniversary of the CCLA research group “Literatures and Religions:Interconnected Narratives.” The group was conceived as a continuation of the discussion on sacredtexts and their impact […]
“Literatures and Religions” Research Group update
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to update you on the progress of the ACLC/CCLA Research Group “Literatures and Religions: Interconnected Narratives.” In June 2025, the research group organized two panels at […]
Announcing ACLA 2026
Dear Members of the American Comparative Literature Association: As the Conference Committee Chair, I am pleased to announce that ACLA’s 2026 Annual Meeting will be held in person in Montreal, […]
Media Theory at the Coach House: Inaugural Conference
November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (Rossiter, 2017). This observation from the inaugural issue of […]
Call for nomination of CCLA Executive Members
CCLA needs your active involvement. The CCLA’s constitution mandates that it holds elections every two years. Elections are set to be held at the Annual General Meeting at Trent University on […]
CFP MLA 2026 Guaranteed Panel: The Afterlives of Protest: Representations of Protest in the Sinophone World
MLA Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature Executive Committee seeks submissions for a guaranteed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto. In the 2010s, Hong Kong and Taiwan emerged into the international […]
CfP for 2025 ICLA Congress
You are welcome to submit a paper proposal to the 2025 ICLA Congress, to be held in Seoul, Korea from 28 July to 1 August 2025. The deadline for submissions […]
CCLA Conference 2025 – Fantastical Constallations CFP
Fantastical Constellations Research Group – Call for Proposals The Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites […]
CFP: Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body
The international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body aimsto examine queer visibility in contemporary culture, exploring it across a rangeof contexts. The title of the conference alone may serve […]
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, […]
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. […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.