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Call for Papers "Global Languages, Local Cultures" 2009 Annual Meeting American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Harvard University Cambridge, MA (USA) 26-29 March 2009 __________________________________________________ The American Comparative Literature Associations 2009 Annual Meeting will take place at Harvard University on March 26-29, 2009 (Thursday evening through Sunday noon). >>From the early spreading of languages such as Greek, Chinese, Latin, and Arabic across broad regions to the present age of globalization, local literary cultures have long had to interact with hegemonic languages and literatures of foreign origin. As Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett argued in his book Comparative Literature as early as 1886, world literature first arose in antiquity long before the rise of the individual national literatures. The theme of Global languages, local cultures can offer avenues into many lines of inquiry: explorations of minor literatures; regionalism and transregional relations; empires and postcolonial situations; interactions of literature with religious and philosophical traditions; classical literatures and modern offshoots or responses; standard languages, creoles, and vernaculars; movements of genres into new cultural spaces; translation theory and practice; relations of literature, music, film, and other arts. The ACLAs annual conferences have a unique structure in which most papers are grouped into 9-12 person seminars that meet two hours per day, for the three days of the conference, in order to foster discussion. Some 8-person seminars meet the first two days of the conference. Previous conference programs that show this structure are available at the ACLA website. The conference will also include plenary sessions, workshops, a business meeting, a banquet, and other events on and off the Harvard campus. We invite proposals for seminars as well as individual paper proposals, which should be submitted via the forthcoming ACLA 2009? link at the ACLA website. Seminar Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2008. Paper Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2008. Conference Website: http://www.acla.org/acla2009/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
