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Jump to: [Forthcoming BCLA Events] [Other Events of Interest to Comparatists] Forthcoming BCLA or BCLA-related eventsBritish Comparative Literature Association Balzac: the animal, the human, and the Saturday 16 January 2010 Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre (In association with the UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies) Download Lecture Announcement in Word or poster in pdf The British Comparative Literature Association Call for Papers (or download in Word or pdf) Plenary speakers 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 Fax: +44 (0)1227-823641 For more information: Joint British Comparative Literature Association/CNRS Paris III Censier Conference This conference proposes to evaluate the significance of hybrid beings and monsters in literature since the beginning of the 20th century. To what degree do they still perpetuate the images of destruction established since Greek mythologies? Are 19th century Darwinian ideas of a survival creature as a successful monster still prevalent in contemporary literature? In what ways do they reflect our contemporary attitudes to both the non human and the inhuman. Are "promising monsters", as Donna Haraway called them in one of her earlier works, visible in contemporary texts? Although this conference will focus primarily on literature, proposals discussing cinematographic narratives and anthropological, scientific or political discourses within a wider literary perspective will be considered. We invite papers investigating issues relating to the following themes across the spectrum of major European literatures: - chimeras and mutants Organiser: Lucile Desblache, Roehampton University. Participation from the CNRS Paris III Censier (Anne Simon) and the British Comparative Literature Association (Karen Seago).
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 ComparatistsConferences and Events - 2010
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