CALL FOR PAPERS
British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) Triennial Conference
MIGRATION
8-11 July 2013, University of Essex, United Kingdom
The BCLA invites conference papers on the theme of migration,
understood as the migration of texts, stories, and myths across
cultures and time, media, genres and species, as well as the
migrations of peoples across lands, seas, and worlds. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
· borders, boundaries, crossings
· exile, displacement, Diaspora
· nomads, refugees, sailors, pirates, argonauts
· odysseys, expeditions, quests, transits
· departures, destinations, arrivals, Heimat
· worlding, world-litting
· globetrotting, globalectics
· glossolalia, polyphonies, palimpsests
· re-telling, reinscription, re-visioning
· transmedia, cross-genre, adaptation
· metamorphosis, mutation, metempsychosis
Deadline for submission of proposals (for individual papers or
panels): 1 November 2012. Please send proposals, no longer than 250
words, and a brief biographical statement to: <[log in to unmask]>.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht
Michael Cronin, Dublin City University
Abdelfattah Kilito, University of Rabat, Morocco
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Marina Warner, University of Essex (Presidential Address)
In collaboration with the British School at Rome and the School for
Libyan Studies, the BCLA Migration conference will include a dedicated
strand of panels, readings, and performances entitled "Through Dido's
Eyes: The Arab Spring in Literature and the Arts".
For further information please contact <[log in to unmask]>.
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