British Comparative Literature Association
XII International Conference
`Archive“
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 5-8 July 2010
Call for Papers
Plenary speakers
Richard Price (British Library)
Ulrich Raulff (German Literature Archive, Marbach)
Max Saunders (King“s College, London)
Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)
Dubravka Ugresi“c (Writer)
Paper proposals of a comparative/interdisciplinary nature are invited,
focusing on any culture or historical period. The following list is
intended to suggest a possible range of subject areas:
archiving the future, bibliomania, censored archives, collecting,
conservation, drafts, fake archives, film and sound archives, imaginary
archives, libraries, literary remains, lost archives, manuscripts,
marginalia, oral history, politics of the archive, secrets of the
archive, technologies of the archive, testimony, the unarchived
The BCLA will offer a limited number of bursaries of up to £50 to
graduate students who give papers at the conference. For further
information or to apply, please contact the BCLA Secretary, Mrs
Penelope Brown, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; email:
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Please send paper proposals (title and 200-word abstract for a paper to
last 20 minutes) by 18 December 2009 to:
BCLA ARCHIVE CONFERENCE
Department of Comparative Literature
School of European Culture and Languages
Cornwallis Building
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 (0)1227-823641
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For more information:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive
www.bcla.org
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