Canadian Comparative Literature Association: Congress 2014
Comparative Literature is often seen as a quixotic discipline, since it attempts to cover not only the totality of literary production around the world but also the relations between literature and such diverse fields as music, sculpture, painting, theatre, and film, to say nothing of history, sociology, anthropology, folklore, and genetics. Given its profusion of interests, one cannot help but wonder what are the field’s limits, or boundaries. From May 25 to May 27, 2014, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada hosted by Brock University—in the beautiful Niagara region—the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites scholars to explore the boundaries of Comparative Literature. What is the relation between national literatures and world literature? How are new media shaping Comparative Literature? What is the role of translation in comparative literary studies? How can historically excluded literatures and literary histories be incorporated into Comparative Literature? How are new geographies of literary production refashioning Comparative Literature? What is the role of interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, or transdisciplinarity in Comparative Literature?
Comparative papers on other topics are also welcome and will be collected into general sessions. Proposals for pre-arranged panels, roundtables or other formats too may be submitted. Joint sessions with other organizations are encouraged but should be arranged as soon as possible.
Please submit 250-300 word abstracts for 20-minute presentations to Program Chair Albert Braz (albert.braz@ualberta.ca) by January 15, 2014.