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AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
2003 Conference:
Crossing Over
Cal State San Marcos, April 4-6, 2003.
Call for Papers
In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of intercultural
relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural relations within a
particular society, and the interactions between literature and other forms of
human activity, including the arts, the sciences, philosophy, and cultural
artifacts of all kinds.
To this end, we invite papers for the 2003 annual meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association to be held at Cal State San Marcos in
North San Diego County, April 4-6, 2003. In keeping with San Diego's
prominence as a global crossroads for language, culture and economic
exchange, the theme of this year's meeting is "Crossing Over." We invite
panels or individual papers that explore both the condition and process of
crossing as a form of mobility, transition, transformation, experience, or
exchange. We especially encourage panels which are interdisciplinary or
from the premodern periods. Some interpretations of this theme include, but
are not limited to:
Borders and Boundaries: inter-American relations, nationalisms, migration
and community-formation, colonialities and postcolonialities, imperialism,
globalities, cosmopolitanisms, reciprocity and exchange, Pacific Rim
crossings, liminalities
Historical Crossings: literary migrations and relations across periods,
terminologies of periodization-"antiquity" to "medieval" to "modern", early and
post, neo and new, classics today, influence studies, intertextuality
Technologies of Reproduction: scriptoria and scribal culture, manuscript
studies, codex and history of the book, early print culture, literacy and
orality, new media, digital media, facsimiles, cloning, hyperreality, avatars,
film studies
Cartographies: trade routes, landscape, monuments and mapmaking,
pilgrimage, exile, tourism, transatlanticisms
Consumer Culture: massification, exchange, economies of circulation,
subcultures
Progress: translatio studii, improvement or decline, moving forward, looking
back, technological improvement, social reform, threat to tradition
Cultural Memory: holocaust studies, collective guilt, histories, originary
myths, folklore
Otherworlds: fantasy, religion, spirituality, mythmaking, magical realism,
quests
Death: crusades, sacred visions, apocalypse, prophecy, ghosts, martyrdom,
ecstasies, millenarianism
Identity Politics: lineage, patriarchy, genealogy, desire, dialogism,
transgenderings, bisexuality, cyberselves, outing, passing, authenticity
Disciplinarity and Representation: visual arts and literature, transitional
genres and hybrids, canon formation, translation, cinematics
Proposals for 10-12 person panels (meeting 2 hours per day for 3 days)
should be submitted online at the conference website:
www.csusm.edu/acla2003 or www.acla.org. Individual paper proposals should
be submitted directly to panel organizers.
Deadline for Seminar Proposals: August 1, 2002.
Deadline for Individual Abstracts: October 1, 2002.
We will be happy to post proposed panel CFP's on the conference website
but encourage you to advertise for participants to your session in other
scholarly venues as well.
For more information or questions, please contact ACLA 2003 chairs:
Professor Heather Richardson Hayton
Literature and Writing Studies
Cal State University San Marcos
San Marcos, CA 92096-0001
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Professor Laurel Amtower
Department of English and Comparative Literature
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-8140
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Please note: Participants in the annual meeting (paper presenters and
session chairs) must be current members of ACLA. Membership forms can
be found at the ACLA website.
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School of European Languages and Cultures (German)
University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh
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