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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