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British Comparative Literature Association
Second Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture
Guest Speaker
Antonia S. Byatt

Balzac: the animal, the human, and the
form of the novel’

Saturday 16 January 2010
3.00p.m.

Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
University College, London

(In association with the UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies)
The lecture is free and will be followed by a Reception
To reserve a place, please email penny.brown@manchester.ac.uk

Download Lecture Announcement in Word or poster in pdf


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)
Michael Sheringham (University of Oxford)
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


Joint British Comparative Literature Association/CNRS Paris III Censier Conference
Hybrids, Monsters, Aliens and Other Creatures in 20th and 21st Century Writing
9 - 11 September 2010
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Download Call for Papers in Word and poster

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
- posthumans, cyborgs and other future creatures
- biotechnology and genetics in creative writing
- the influence of the monster imagery
- dystopia and the monstrous
- the monstrous and the grotesque
- the monstrous and gender
- inhumanity vs the non human
- defining and exploring hybridity
- human/non-human borders
- animality and humanity
- irrationality, aliens and monsters
- the legacy of vampires and other imaginary creatures
- species boundaries
- the precarity of human/non-human norms
- species and evolution
- narratives of aliens

Organiser: Lucile Desblache, Roehampton University. Participation from the CNRS Paris III Censier (Anne Simon) and the British Comparative Literature Association (Karen Seago).
Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=373


Speakers include Kate Soper and Dominique Lestel
A selection of papers will be published: the Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle for contributions in French and University of Edinburgh Press have already expressed interest for contributions in English.


Kindly send your proposals for papers or panels in English or in French (around 300 words) by 31st March 2010 to Lucile Desblache, l.desblache@roehampton.ac.uk
or by post to
Roehampton University, School of Arts
Digby Stuart College
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PU
United Kingdom


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.


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