2008 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting
Dates
April 24 — 27, 2008
Venue
Westin Long Beach Hotel, California, US
Organizer
California State University Long Beach
Theme
Arrivals and Departures
Seminars
* Comparative Literature vs World Literature, organized by Dorothy Figueira, professor of comparative literature, University of Georgia, US
* Literary Systems Outside the Modern, organized by Alexander J. Beecroft, assistant professor of comparative literature and humanities, Yale University, US
* What Is the “Self” in “Self-Reference”, organized by Haun Saussy, professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literatures, Yale University, US
* Human Rights and/in Global Literary Production: Pedagogical and Theoretical Perspectives, organized by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, assistant professor of English, Babson College and Alexandra Schultheis, assistant professor of postcolonial literature and theory, the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US
* Departures from the Text: Literary Adaptation in Praxis, organized by Elaine Martin, associate professor, department of modern languages and classics, University of Alabama, US
Background information
ACLA is the principal learned society in the US for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself. The ACLA’s annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into seminars. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks.
Contact
For more information, go to http://www.acla.org/acla2008
