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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 (or download in Word or pdf)

Plenary speakers
Richard Price (British Library)
Ulrich Raulff (German Literature Archive, Marbach)
Max Saunders (King’s College, London)
Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)
Dubravka Ugrešiÿ (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: penny.brown@manchester.ac.uk

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
Cornwallis Building
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF
United Kingdom

Fax: +44 (0)1227-823641
Email: archive@kent.ac.uk

For more information:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive


BCLT International Literary Translation Summer School
19-25 July 2009

Registration is now open for BCLT's annual international Literary Translation Summer School.

The Summer School brings together renowned writers and translators for an intensive week of workshops, round tables, seminars and readings. In 2009, a translation workshop from Chinese into English will be offered for the first time. Other workshops are offered into English from French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, and from English into Italian. In each workshop, participants work with a writer-in-residence under the guidance of an experienced literary translator.

Bursaries are available.

Details here, and on our website: www.uea.ac.uk/bclt


Synapsis 2009: Shadows/Ombre
Castello di Bertinoro (Forli)
6th - 13th September 2009

Synapsis, European School for Comparative Studies,
jointly hosted by the Universities of Bologna and Siena,
now invites applications for its 10th edition: "Shadows/Ombre"

Lectures by: Marina Warner, Victor Stoichita, Giorgio Pressburger, Remo
Ceserani,
Silvia Albertazzi, Helena Buescu, Massimo Fusillo, Christopher Prendergast,
Matteo Baraldi, Simona Corso, Orsetta Innocenti, Anna Masecchia,
Simona Micali, Emilio Varrà, Paolo Zanotti.

Seminars by: Héliane Ventura, Ian Christie, Ferdinando Amigoni,
Federico Bertoni, Helmut Pfeiffer, Donata Meneghelli, Gian Piero Piretto,
Giulio Iacoli, Marco Formisano, Florian Mussgnug.

Theatre workshopby Laura Caretti.

All participants will be hosted at the Castello di Bertinoro (Forlì)
from Sunday, 6th September to Sunday, 13th September 2009.
Graduate bursaries are available.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 10th June 2009.

For further details and information on how to apply please visit our
web-site:
www.unisi.it/synapsis, or contact us at: synapsis2009@gmail.com.


Xenographies: The Representation of Foreigners in Literature, Travel Writing and Other Discourses
Call for Papers
British Comparative Literature Association/Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada

Joint Bilingual Workshop Conference
16-18 September 2009
University of Wolverhampton (City Campus), UK
Deadline for submissions: 20 April 2009

A workshop conference, sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association, the Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada and the History & Governance Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton

Call for papers, special session proposals and workshop proposals


The Third International Congress of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies, entitled 'Transformations of the European Landscapes; Encounters between Self and Other' will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 11 - 13 2009. Download the registration form here (Word format)


The nineteenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) 'Exapnding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature' will be held in Daegu, Korea, August 15 - 21, 2010. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 29, 2009, and further information about the Congress can be found here.


Other Events of Interest to Comparatists

Conferences and Events - 2009 

6 - 8 Re-Imagining Identity: New Directions in Post-Colonial Studies Waterford, Republic of Ireland
     
     
     

 


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