ACLA 2004 Conference, The University of Michigan, April 15-18, 2004
Global Ethnic Networks
Call for Papers
We invite papers for the 2004 annual meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association to be held at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Global
Ethnic Networks.”
“Ethnicity” might name the domain of specific kinds and differences to
which close attention must be paid. “Globalism” reflects the massive
transformations in the exchange of information and meaning at the
global level. Combining the ethnic and global suggests a perspective
that makes use of the traditional strengths of Comparative Literature
as a discipline and points in new directions important to its future.
We invite seminars or individual papers that explore the convergence of
ethnicity and globalism in pursuit of both strategic boundary-crossing
as well as the theoretical connections central to the comparative
method.
• Hybridity of Forms: mixed and transitional genres, cross media,
experimental writing, cloning, history of generic forms, comparative
Americas, disability, manuscript studies, contagion, forgeries,
performance studies, translation, popular culture, disciplinarity,
slang
• Time and Counter-Time: time-lag and speed in communication networks,
cross-historicization, periodization and its others, fantasy, real-time
media, chronologies, spirituality, progress narratives, mythology,
music and rhythm, opera
• Gender and Sex: sexual customs, human rights and gender, perversions,
body politics, pleasure and desire, body modification and sex change,
transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities,
homosexuality and Islam, same-sex marriages, (de)criminalization of
sexual behavior
• Mechanical Reproduction: print culture, science fiction, film
studies, human genome project, publishing history, cyborgs, body art
• Arrivals and Departures: exile, forced emigration, migration as
hospitality, reciprocity, postcolonial migration, moment of arrival,
emblems of arrival, regulation of expulsion and arrival, migrant travel
literature, habitus and dress codes, religious differences, explorers,
flaneurs, asylum, intellectual migratio
• Market Culture: nation emotions, tourism, exchange economies,
politics of price, commemoration, consumer activism, gastronomy,
kitsch, value
• Identity Politics: assimilation, symbiosis, collectivization,
shifting subjectivities, cultural relativism, rupture, cultural
identity and memory
•Collecting: travel and collecting, local museums, museums and nation-
building, testimonies, exotica, souvenirs, surrealism, ethnographic
objects, categorization, display, visual culture, exhibiting
• Nation and Post-Nation: community formation, cosmopolitanism,
postcolonial theory, ethnicities, diaspora
• Violence and Silence: trauma, life stories and autobiographic
narratives, representations of ordeal and rupture, genocide, ethnic
cleansing, narratives of recovery and pain, mourning and politics of
resistance.
• Empire: non-Western empires, imperial endeavors, nostalgia,
scientific explorations, cartography, travel literature, commercial
exploration, Westernization reforms, isolation versus transformation,
religion and empire, secularism, geopoetics
Proposals for 10-12 person panels (meeting 2 hours per day for 3 days)
should be submitted online at the conference website:
www.umich.edu/~acla or www.acla.org. Individual paper proposals should
be submitted directly to panel organizers. Online submittal will be
available soon, please check back.
Deadline for Seminar Proposals: August 25, 2003.
Deadline for Individual Abstracts: October 1, 2003.
We will be happy to post proposed panel CFPs 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 the ACLA 2004 chair:
Professor Tobin Siebers
Program in Comparative Literature
2015 Tisch Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
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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
on our
website at www.acla.org/gen_join.html
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