FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR GENERAL LITERARY STUDIES (SAVAL)
BIENNIAL MAIN CONGRESS
HOSTED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
A SENSE OF SPACE
2-5 JUNE 1998
An international, interdisciplinary conference will be held at the
University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg from Tuesday 2 June to Friday 5
June 1998. The theme of the Congress, "A Sense of Space" aims to attract
scholars from a wide range of disciplines and to stimulate debate around
"the spatial forms and fantasies through which a culture declares its
presence" (Paul Carter).
Proposals are invited for papers addressing the conference theme and related
areas.
Topics could include:
*. Narrative Metaphors: Labyrinths, Mazes, Worlds
*. Architectural space, Landscapes
*. Images and Realities
*. Nation, Space, Identities
*. Utopias
*. Travel Writing
*. Colonial Space, Centres, Peripheries, Boundaries
*. Spatiality: Subjectivity, Metaphysical
*. Theatrical and Visual space
*. Cyberspace
*. Translation, Transgression, Transposition
*. Psychoanalysis
*. Social Space
The Congress will be held back to back with the AGM and seminar of the South
African Translators' Institute (SATI). This offers a unique opportunity for
interdisciplinary discussion. Interdisciplinary papers between these two
fields are encouraged (this would apply particularly to literary translation).
Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Those wishing to present papers at the
Congress are invited to send a provisional title and a brief synopsis not
later than 1 NOVEMBER 1997. Your paper will be scheduled in an appropriate
session.
Papers delivered at the Congress will appear in published Proceedings. These
will also be made available on the Internet via the SAVAL homepage.
Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to:
Rita Wilson or Carlotta von Maltzan
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Private Bag 3
WITS 2050
Phone: (+27 11) 716 3270 or (+27 11) 716 3426
Fax: (+27 11) 403 7289
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The University of the Witwatersrand is located in the largest metropolitan
area and the industrial and commercial heart of South Africa. Wits is
recognised both nationally and internationally for the quality of its
graduates and its excellence in teaching, research and service to society.
It has a longstanding commitment to university autonomy, academic freedom
and non-discrimination. The Congress will be centred on the university's
West Campus, located only minutes from Johannesburg's city centre.
Full details of the Congress, including registration forms, will be
forwarded at a later stage but any general enquiries now should be addressed
to the Convener of the Organising Committee, c/o The Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures at the above address.
SAVAL (The South African Society for General Literary Studies) is an
important interdisciplinary forum for general literary discussion,
especially in the areas of literary theory and comparative literature. While
most of its membership has been traditionally drawn from Departments of
English and Afrikaans, at present it has 250 members from a wide range of
disciplines, ranging from Theology to Romance Literatures. SAVAL (the
acronym is derived from the Afrikaans name of the Society) is affiliated to
the International Comparative Literature Association. SAVAL members
regularly participate in activities of the ICLA. SAVAL is in fact in the
final stages of a bid to host the 2000 ICLA Congress.
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