The Event
The Location
ACLA
2012 Conference Seminar Themes
Seminar Themes:
- (In)Formal Concerns: Human Rights and Cultural Forms
- (Micro)politics after the Subject
- (RE)translating Theory in Asian Context
- (Un)timeliness and Catastrophe
- 100 Years Later: Strindberg the Modern?
- 1968: Revolutions in Art, Film, Literature and Theory
- A Crisis in Reading? A Historical Approach
- A New Political Ecology: Guattari, Stengers, Latour
- Accidents in Literature and Theory
- Adapting Arthur: Cultural Crisis in Medieval Arthurian Literature
- Adorno and the Crisis of the Contemporary
- After Crisis: 21st Century Political Economy and Cultural Form
- After Postmodernism: The Case for Postcontemporary Theory
- After the Deluge, Moi
- Albert Camus: From Mid-Century Trauma to the 21st Century
- Alternative Memory: The Cinema of Crisis
- Alternative Transpacific Exchanges: Asia and Latin America
- Animal Forms, Animal Traces: Inter-Species Art, Performance, & Metamorphosis in Times of Catastrophe
- Animal Metrics
- Apocalypse: Creativity and Destruction at Future’s End
- Automation and Catastrophe
- Bad reception, missed connection, clogged circulation
- Bad Timing in the Early Modern
- Bending ‘Rules of Use’: Reading Pragmatics on Unstable Grounds
- Beyond Fukushima: Ethics and Ideas for the Future in Post-Earthquake Japan
- Beyond the Clash: Meeting Ground of the East and the West and Beyond
- Blood and Revolution: What Is Worth, and Worth Fighting For?
- Breaking In, Out and Away: Generational Change
- Broken Voices, Broken Ears
- Catastrophe and Formal Changes
- Catastrophe narrated, Bodies reconfigured: History in Chinese Literature
- Catastrophes of Contact: Indigenes, Immigrants, and Cultures of U. S. Nationalism
- Catastrophes, Poetics, and Transformations: Figures of Shipwreck in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity
- Catastrophic Translation, Translating Catastrophes
- Change in Constant Crisis: Aesthetic Response from the Black Sea Region
- Children of Men: Childhood in Narratives of Crisis and Catastrophe
- Collapse and Catastrophe: Spain’s Cultural Panorama in the XXI Century
- Collapsing Boundaries: Theorizing Interdisciplinarity in Literary Studies
- Collapsing Identities: Moving from “Jewish(minus)one” to “Jewish(plus)many”
- Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Sexualities in Literature and Culture
- Comparative Poetics: Disruption and Continuity
- Confronting the Non-sensical: Narrations of Survival
- Consuming Grief
- Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality
- Crises of Mind, Collapsing of Forms: Exploring Audiovisual Art and Literature of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1940
- Crises of the Renaissance Voice: The Inarticulate, Unpersuasive, and Melancholy
- Crisis and Imagination after Poe
- Crisis and Nature in the Carribean Imaginary
- Crisis in the Amazon
- Critical Climate Change: Turbulence and Chaos
- Critical Turns, Literary Returns
- Critique of Singularity: On the Iteration of Catastrophe
- David Foster Wallace and “Our Nihilist Phase”
- Decadence in Post-Mao China: A Survey of Perversions in Literature, Film, Music and Art
- Decline and Fall: Rome in Translation, Translation in Rome
- Democracy, Justice and the Arts
- Diasporic Poetics: Exile and Nomadism across the Americas
- Digital Perspectives on the World of the Novel
- Digital Things
- Discontemporaries: Turning Over and Overturning the Present
- Documenting Disaster
- Dramaturgies of Crisis
- Early Modern Chinese Literature in Comparative Perspective
- Ecology/Energy/Economy
- Eileen Chang and “Foreign Countries”
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- Ethics of Use and Abuse
- Experimentalism & Failure in Fluxus & Beyond
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Children’s Literature and Film in an Age of Catastrophe
- Forgiveness in the Wake of Crisis
- Forms of Community
- Forms of Exile
- Fractured American Myths
- From Erlebnis to Erfahrung: Catastrophic Experience and Tragic Form
- Gazing Back and Moving On: Postwar and Postrevolutionary Literature and Film in Luso-Africa, Central America and the Carribean
- Gender and Sexual Health: Literary, Cultural, or Historical Comparisons
- Global Citizenship
- Global Masculinities: Film and Gender Crisis
- Global Political Film
- Graphic Narrative and Catastrophe
- Great War/Global War: The Literary and Cultural Aftermath, 1914-1939
- Historical Poetics: Crisis, Change and the Longue
- History, Memory, and Cultural Discourses: Representations of Violence in Literature and Cinema
- Humans Gone Wild: Catastrophe, Inhumanity, Animality
- Ideals and Alternatives: Utopianism and Community in Literature
- Identities in Crisis: Collapsing Borders, Shifting Communities and Transforming Gender in Hispanic and Latino Narratives
- In Dark Times: Catastrophic Disclocations
- Intercultural Representations at the Crisis Point
- Isn’t Torture Funny? Literary and Cinematographic Comical Renditions of Traumatic Events
- Kairos and Qualia, or the Voices of the Undead
- Literary and Filmic Representation of Political Grotesque
- Literary Journalism and Catastrophe
- Littered with Meaning: Environmental Pollution and Waste in Literature and Other Arts
- Looking Forward, Looking Back: Cataclysm, Representation, and African Literature
- Love Again: The Turn to Love in Contemporary Literature
- Love in Crisis, Love as Crisis, Love Against Catastrophe
- Mapping the Mexican Borderlands
- Marking the End: Last Man, Last Thing, Last Word
- Me, Myself, and I: The Self and the Social
- Media Shift and Genre Collapse
- Mediations of Interculturality: The Aesthetics of Culture-Shock, Conflict, and Crisis
- Mediterranean Modernisms
- Memory and Representation across Boundaries, The Spanish Civil War in an International Context
- Modernism, Catastrophe, and Cultural Memory
- Murderous Space
- Muselmann/’Muslim’: Memory, Translation, Race
- Narrating Environmental Trauma in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Narratives of Loss
- Narrativity, Performativity and the New Globality
- Natural Law / Limits of Nature
- Naturalism and Crisis
- New Frontiers in Inter-American Literary Studies
- Nihilism and Prophecy in the Novel
- Other Romes: Peddling Eternal Cities Across the World
- Palimpsest Story: Vestiges and Emanations
- Parameters of Change: Perception of Minorities in Comparative Perspective
- Performing Crises of Existence in the Caribbean and Latin America
- Perpetual Crisis: Baroque Change, Changing the Baroque
- Perpetual Passing Away: History as Eternal Catastrophe in Walter Benjamin
- Philology, Theory, and the Greeks
- Poetics of Collapse: Form and Politics
- “Poking” the Masses: The Arab Revolutions and the Appeal to the Masses for Regime Change or Antirevolutionary Practices
- Porous Permutations: The Potential in Collapse; Change in the Wake of Catastrophe
- Post – : Remembering, Binding, Afterness
- Powder Kegs, Iron Curtains, and Velvet Revolutions: Eastern European and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures in Discourse(s) of Crisis
- “Preservation Amid the Ruins of Time”: Classics and Its Modern Contexts of Reception
- Prima Facie and Second Nature: Prosopopeia and the Faces of Origin
- Queer Crossings/Convergences: Gender and Sexuality in Transnational Cinema
- Queering Area Studies
- Racial Economics or the Economics of Race
- Radical Imagination and Literature
- Reading Beyond the Nation: Modern Periodical Communities
- Reading the Crisis: Literature and Democracy in Contemporary Latin America and Spain
- Reading the Future: Fate, Chance, and Divination in Fictional Narrative
- Reading the Unsaid of Women Writing War
- Regime Collapse and Democratic Transition: Reflections on the Post-Authoritarian Text
- Repetition and Counter-history
- Representations of Catastrophe in Science Fiction Film
- Representing Disgust and the Disgusting
- Representing the Holocaust: Present and Future
- Reproduction, Life, and Futurity in the Humanities
- Reshaping Change: The Language and Literature of Opportunity
- Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America and Beyond: Global Crises, Political Change, Ecological Catastrophe and the Future of Intellectual Work
- Rethinking Realisms
- Rhetorics of the non-State
- Romanticism, Change, and the Limits of the Political
- Safe Places? Caves, Basements, and Fallout Shelters in Postmodern Literature, Art, and Film
- Scepticism and Doubt Across Cultures of Crisis
- Secret Catastrophes
- Seductive Stratagems and Textual Tactics: Transgressive Feminine Discourse(s)
- Spaces in Crisis: Kashmir in Context
- States of Emergency: New Iconographies and the Narratives of Catastrophe
- Streaming Lacan
- Struggling Agents: Between Crisis and Creation
- Stumbling on Poetry
- Teaching European Literature in Imperial Europe
- Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters across Disciplines and Periods
- Telling Catastrophes and The Business of Human Rights in the Americas
- Temporalities of Crisis
- The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Culture in/against Crisis
- The Ancient Quarrel: Poetry in the Light of Philosophy
- The Being of the Work: New Directions in Literary Ontology
- The Catastrophe of Contact: Surviving the Endless Aftermath in Indigenous Communities around the World
- The Collapse of Disciplines in Discourses of Other Sexualities
- The Corpse and Catastrophe
- The Corruption Crisis
- The Day After: Collective Justice and Individual Survival in Catastrophic Texts
- “The Death of the Author” and the Rise of Transformative Work
- The Feminine as a Counter-Discourse to Chinese Modernism
- The Fiction and Non-Fiction of Virtual Reality
- The Global Checkpoint: ‘Rights’ of Passage, Performances of Sovereignty
- The Human as Catastrophic
- The Language of Financial Crises: Events, Data, Representations
- The Mechanisms and Materiality of Ensuring Security
- The Modernist Self and its Discontents
- The More It Changes: Change and Permanence in Lusophone Texts
- The Rebirth of Tragedy: Reconsidering Theories of the Tragic
- The State: Rethinking Existing Theoretical Paradigms
- The Theoretical Possibilities of Large-Scale Literary Studies
- The Violence of Economics and the Economics of Violence
- The Writing of Spiritual Crisis and Conversion
- The Yellow Peril, A Yellow Peril: Western Representations of Japan in Times of Crisis
- Theorizing the Fantastic in 20th Century Art
- Thinking Change, Becoming, and Mutation: Visual and Textual Approaches
- Tragedy After Modernity
- Transformations of Catastrophe: Violence as Cultural Artifact
- Transpacific Encounters: Catastrophic Aftermath in the Asian Diaspora
- Transpositions: Modernity, Sovereignty, Communication
- Trauma, Recovery, and Community
- Traumatic Postmodernity: violent introspection, repression and transgression in recent Latin American narratives
- Troubled Times, Uncertain Borders: Comparatism, Medievalism and the Demands of World Literature
- Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn: Rewriting the Disaster
- United We Sink?: Making and Unmaking Europe
- Unoriginality and Transnational Innovation
- Violence and Representation
- Violence, Tragedy and Change in Portuguese Literature and Film from the Colonial Era to the Present
- Wasted Life: Romanticism and Extinction
- Waterscapes: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Environment and Place in Crisis
- What Comes After the Subject?
- Women and Historical Transitions
- World Literature and Atrocity
- Writing 1848
- Writing Sound
- Writing, Violence, World