The Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association
April 4-6, 2003
San Marcos, CA
Deadline extended to October 15
In its largest sense, comparative literature promotes the study of
intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural
relations within a particular society, and the interactions between
literature and other forms of human activity, including the arts, the
sciences, philosophy, and cultural artifacts of all kinds.
To this end, we invite papers for the 2003 annual meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association to be held at Cal State San Marcos in
North San Diego County, April 4-6, 2003. In keeping with San Diego's
prominence as a global crossroads for language, culture and economic
exchange, the theme of this year's meeting is "Crossing Over." Welcome are
papers that explore both the condition and process of crossing as a form of
mobility, transition, transformation, experience, or exchange. We would like
to especially encourage papers from the pre- and early modern periods. Some
interpretations of this theme include, but are not limited to:
Borders and Boundaries: inter-American relations, nationalisms, migration
and community-formation, colonialities and postcolonialities, imperialism,
globalities, cosmopolitanisms, reciprocity and exchange, Pacific Rim
crossings, liminalities
Historical Crossings: literary migrations and relations across periods,
terminologies of periodization-"antiquity" to "medieval" to "modern", early
and post, neo and new, classics today, influence studies, intertextuality
Technologies of Reproduction: scriptoria and scribal culture, manuscript
studies, codex and history of the book, early print culture, literacy and
orality, new media, digital media, facsimiles, cloning, hyperreality,
avatars, film studies
Cartographies: trade routes, landscape, monuments and mapmaking, pilgrimage,
exile, tourism, transatlanticisms
Consumer Culture: massification, exchange, economies of circulation,
subcultures
Progress: translatio studii, improvement or decline, moving forward, looking
back, technological improvement, social reform, threat to tradition
Cultural Memory: holocaust studies, collective guilt, histories, originary
myths, folklore
Otherworlds: fantasy, religion, spirituality, mythmaking, magical realism,
quests
Death: crusades, sacred visions, apocalypse, prophecy, ghosts, martyrdom,
ecstasies, millenarianism
Identity Politics: lineage, patriarchy, genealogy, desire, dialogism,
transgenderings, bisexuality, cyberselves, outing, passing, authenticity
Disciplinarity and Representation: visual arts and literature, transitional
genres and hybrids, canon formation, translation, cinematics
Please see http://lynx.csusm.edu/acla2003/ for a list of panels still
accepting submisions, or send an abstract directly to ACLA 2003 Co-Chairs
Heather Richardson Hayton (hhayton@csusm.edu) and Laurel Amtower
(amtower@rohan.sdsu.edu).
Professor Heather Richardson Hayton
Literature and Writing Studies
Cal State University San Marcos
San Marcos, CA 92096-0001
hhayton@csusm.edu
Professor Laurel Amtower
Department of English and Comparative Literature
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-8140
amtower@rohan.sdsu.edu
Please note: Participants in the annual meeting (paper presenters and
session chairs) must be current members of ACLA. Membership forms can be
found at the ACLA website.
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