The 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)
Michael Sheringham (University of Oxford)
Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)
Dubravka Ugreðiã (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, politics of the archive,
oral history, 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: [log in to unmask]
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
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 (0)1227-823641
Email: [log in to unmask]
For more information:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive
www.bcla.org
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