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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:16:36 -0400
Subject: Call for papers and seminars
From: Catherine Labio <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Interdisciplinary Studies: In the Middle, Across, or in Between?
Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
Yale University, February 25-27, 2000
http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm
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Comparative Literature has increasingly been offering an intellectual and
institutional space where students and scholars can feel free to explore the
possibilities--and limits--of interdisciplinary work. The organizing
committee of the 2000 ACLA Conference seeks proposals dealing with specific
manifestations of this particular development and with their theoretical
basis.
We are especially interested in topics with a broad historical and
geographical
emphasis and extend a particular invitation to scholars studying connections
between literary studies and the social and natural sciences, including, in no
particular order, physics, economics, politics, law, anthropology, medicine,
history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Proposals
focusing on cross-fertilization with archeology, music, and the visual arts
(including architecture, film, cartoons, and comic strips) are also welcome.
See http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm for further details, including a
list of suggested topics and a regularly updated list of seminar proposals for
which contributions are being solicited.
We expect that the majority of sessions will take the form of 12-person
seminars, meeting two hours a day for the three mornings of the conference,
with four papers presented each day. There will also be a number of 8-person
seminars, meeting two hours a day for the two afternoons of the conference.
Each participant will have the opportunity to take full part in one
seminar and then float freely among individual sessions in other seminars.
We invite proposals for either an individual paper or a fully or partially
formed seminar. You can join with a number of other people to present a
fully-formed seminar; alternatively, you can propose a topic you would like
to see, with one or more abstracts already attached to it, and the
conference committee will try to fill out the seminar as appropriate.
(Should this prove impossible, the committee will make every effort to find
other seminar homes for the submitted abstracts.)
If you have a seminar topic for which you wish to solicit contributions
directly, you may do so by forwarding your solicitation to the secretariat
of the ACLA at [log in to unmask] Your solicitation will then be posted on the
conference web site (http://www.yale.edu/complit/acla2000.htm). Be sure to
give a deadline that will give persons whose proposals you will not be able
to accommodate ample time to submit their proposal independently to the
Program Committee.
If you wish to submit a paper to one of the seminars advertised on the
conference web site, send it to the organizer(s) of the seminar by the
deadline they have listed. If they are unable to accommodate your paper,
they will inform you so that you can still submit it independently to the
Program Committee by the September 30, 1999 deadline.
DEADLINE FOR THE RECEPTION of seminar and independent paper proposals
by the Program Committee at Yale University: SEPTEMBER 30, 1999
One-page abstracts for individual paper proposals must include NAME,
DEPARTMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION, POSTAL ADDRESS, and E-MAIL
ADDRESS; seminar proposals must include one-page abstracts for each
presenter, as well as names, departmental and institutional affiliations,
postal addresses, and e-mail addresses of ALL participants.
Proposals MUST be sent via SURFACE or AIR MAIL to:
ACLA 2000 Program Committee
Department of Comparative Literature
Yale University
P.O. Box 208299
USA - New Haven, CT 06520-8299
Street address (for private companies such as FEDEX or UPS):
ACLA 2000 Program Committee
Department of Comparative Literature
Yale University
344 College Street
105 Connecticut Hall
USA - New Haven, CT 06511
IMPORTANT:
DO NOT SEND INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS OR FINALIZED SEMINAR PROPOSALS TO THE ACLA.
The Yale Program Committee will be making all decisions concerning proposals.
DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS ELECTRONICALLY, ONLY SEND HARD COPIES.
THANK YOU.
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Catherine Labio
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature and French
P.O. Box 208251
USA - New Haven, CT 06520-8251
(203) 432-7588
(203) 432-7975 (dept. fax)
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