Hi all (& Happy Fourth to those of us who celebrate the expatriate
thing)
Would anyone care to help me infiltrate this Yale conference with a
panel or seminar on AUTOBIO and Disability or the SOCIOLOGY of
Disability Lit? Please contact me off list...
Cheers,
Dona
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Date sent: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:49:53 -0400
From: Catherine Labio <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Interdisciplinary Studies (9/30; ACLA, 2/25-2/27)
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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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Dona M. Avery
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