What, when & where
Conflict: Global Perspectives
March 9 – 11, 2023
Louisiana State University
Comparative Literature and French Studies Graduate Associations
6th Annual Languages and Literatures Conference
Held Virtually
“Politics is commonly viewed as the practice of power or the embodiment of collective wills and interests and the enactment of collective ideas.”
The syntagma ‘politics of literature’ means that literature ‘does’ politics as literature…” -Jacques Rancière, “The Politics of Literature” (2010)
Conflict: Global Perspectives asks participants to consider the relationship between literature and language and conflict and, more importantly, how literature and language ‘do’ conflict, how they complicate and are complicated by notions and irreconcilabilities of gender, class, race, mood, emotion, genre, and aesthetics. Presentations treating conflicted/conflicting narrative, visual, and cinematic representations of unraveling communities, relationships, and environments are especially welcome.
We also encourage and welcome submissions on:
Ancient studies
Comparative and/or World Literature
Asian studies
Hispanic studies
French studies
Lusophone studies
Caribbean studies
African studies
African American studies
History
Political Science
Ecocriticism
Film studies
Psychology
Literature
Arabic studies
Philosophy
Art history
Trauma studies
Interdisciplinary methodologies
Nineteenth Century
Victorian studies
Shakespeare
Reception theory
Indigenous studies
Literatures of the Americas
Exilic writing
Postcolonialism
Memory
Translation
Adaptation
Deadline & how to apply
We will gladly consider presentations in Spanish, Italian, English, French, and German. If you submit an abstract in a language other than English, please attach an English-language translation of this abstract. We welcome abstract submissions of 250 words for 15-20-minute presentations (8-10 typed pages, double-spaced) by Dec. 1, 2022. Please submit abstract and brief bio to cpltfrenconf@lsu.edu.
Other info, Links & conditions
Undergraduate students may apply to the general undergraduate CFP.
Following the conference, participants may submit their paper for consideration for publication in the Tête-a-tête conference proceedings.
Vol. 3 of LSU’s Comparative Woman Journal, to be published in 2023, will also accept nominations for the Best Essay Prize. The award will include publication in the volume and a certificate.
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