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MIGRATION: British Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Essex, UK, July 8-13 2013
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2013-07-08 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-05-30 |
| Announcement ID: |
194880 |
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The BCLA invites conference papers on the theme of migration, understood as the migration of texts, stories, and myths across cultures and time, media, genres and species, as well as the migrations of peoples across lands, seas, and worlds. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• borders, boundaries, crossings
• exile, displacement, Diaspora
• nomads, refugees, sailors, pirates, argonauts
• odysseys, expeditions, quests, transits
• departures, destinations, arrivals, Heimat
• worlding, world-litting
• globetrotting, globalectics
• glossolalia, polyphonies, palimpsests
• re-telling, reinscription, re-visioning
• transmedia, cross-genre, adaptation
• metamorphosis, mutation, metempsychosis
Deadline for submission of proposals (for individual papers or panels): 1 November 2012. Please send proposals, no longer than 250 words, and a brief biographical statement to: bcla2013@essex.ac.uk.
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS
Rosa Braidotti, University of Utrecht
Michael Cronin, Dublin City University
Abdelfattah Kilito, University of Rabat, Morocco
Maria Tatar, Harvard University
Marina Warner, University of Essex (Presidential Address)
In collaboration with the British School at Rome and the School for Libyan Studies, the BCLA Migration conference will include a dedicated strand of panels, readings, and performances entitled “Through Dido’s Eyes: The Arab Spring in Literature and the Arts”.
For further information please contact bcla2013@essex.ac.uk
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Sanja Bahun
Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
UK
Email: bcla2013@essex.ac.uk
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