CFP: Arts in Academia (10/20/06: ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07)

2007 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
April 19 - 22, 2007
Puebla, México

Arts in Academia

The seminar invites papers that explore the multiple
interactions between academic scholarship and artistic
practice. Beyond, or besides, the traditional task of
interpreting and appreciating verbal and visual works of art,
the panel investigates in what ways academic/humanistic
disciplines have engaged and do engage in the arts.

Among the many possible issues the seminar aims to discuss,
are the following:

- In what contexts, if any, academic production cooperates,
competes or obstructs the work of the artist?

- To what extent do the goals of scholarship, on the one hand,
and artistic production and consumption, on the other,
converge or diverge?

- If media determines the shape and scope of a message, what
shape and scope the work of art acquires in the medium of
higher education?

- How literary texts portray life in that privileged space,
the university campus?

- In a sometimes hyper-intellectualized academic environment,
what is the place, if any, of an education of the senses?

The seminar is open to multiple perspectives, for example,
general reflections on aesthetics, the exploration of
pedagogical tools to bridge the gap between academic
departments, or historical analysis of academic practices,
among others.

Comparisons between the artistic and scholarly traditions of
North America and Latin America are also a possible topic of
exploration. Papers with a focus on Latin America are
particularly welcome, as well as papers written in Spanish.

Please submit a 250-300 word abstract to Dan Russek at
drussek_at_uvic.ca. Deadline: October 20, 2006.

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