CALL FOR PAPERS
THE AUTHOR-TRANSLATOR IN THE EUROPEAN LITERARY TRADITION - Swansea University, 28 June – 1 July 2010
Keynote speakers include Susan Bassnett, David Constantine, Lawrence Venuti. Further details: http://www.author-translator.net/

CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: "LITERATURE AND THE ARTS "
Trinity College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
Friday 27th - Saturday 28th November 2009

The Second Postgraduate Symposium of the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland seeks to build on the success of last year's event. This year again it is hoped to gather together interested academics and postgraduates for purposes both of intellectual engagement and to share experiences on the more practical matters of conducting research and establishing a career.
We therefore invite contributions on the broad theme of "Literature and the Arts". The conference will also host an 'open strand' in order to accommodate papers that do not fit the main topic. Workshops on the methodology of Comparative Literature, publishing and postgraduate training will be organized as part of the programme.
The conference is open not only to the broad community of postgraduate students in Comparative Literature, but also to all those who may be considering engaging in study or research in the field.
Presentations, in English, will last 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. PowerPoint facilities will be available.
Abstracts in English (no more than 300 words) should be sent to Caitríona Leahy (cleahy@tcd.ie) and Cormac ó Cuilleanáin (cocullnn@tcd.ie) by Friday 9th October.
Proceedings will be considered for an online publication on the CLAI website (www.complit.org).

JUNIOR LECTURESHIP IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND

A new post was recently advertised: Junior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture, in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Limerick.- 10 month fixed term contract. Salary: EUR 44,052 p.a. (pro rata). Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday, 3rd July 2009. Applications must be completed online before 12 noon on the closing date. Please email erecruitment@ul.ie if you experience any difficulties. Further information for applicants and application material is available online from: http://www.ul.ie/hrvacancies/

Applications are welcome from suitably qualified female and male candidates. The University is an equal opportunities employer and committed to selection on merit.

The University of Limerick (UL) with over 11,000 students and 1,300, staff is a young, energetic and enterprising University with a proud record of innovation in education and excellence in research and scholarship. UL is situated on a superb riverside campus of over 130 hectares with the River Shannon as a unifying focal point. Outstanding recreational, cultural and sporting facilities further enhance this exceptional learning and working environment.

BCLA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010: CALL FOR PAPERS

The British Comparative Literature Association's twelfth International Conference, entitled 'Archive', will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 5–8 July 2010. Plenary speakers: Richard Price (British Library); Ulrich Raulff (German Literature Archive, Marbach); Max Saunders (King’s College, London); Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick); Dubravka Ugresic (Writer)

Paper proposals of a comparative/interdisciplinary nature are invited, focusing on any culture or historical period. The following list is intended to suggest a possible range of subject areas:

archiving the future, bibliomania, censored archives, collecting, conservation, drafts, fake archives, film and sound archives, imaginary archives, libraries, literary remains, lost archives, manuscripts, marginalia, politics of the archive, oral history, secrets of the archive, technologies of the archive, testimony, the unarchived.

The BCLA will offer a limited number of bursaries of up to £50 to graduate students who give papers at the conference. For further information or to apply, please contact the BCLA Secretary, Mrs Penelope Brown, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; email: penny.brown@manchester.ac.uk

Please send paper proposals (title and 200-word abstract for a paper to last 20 minutes) by 18 December 2009 to:

BCLA ARCHIVE CONFERENCE
Department of Comparative Literature
School of European Culture and Languages
Cornwallis Building
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF
United Kingdom

Fax: +44 (0)1227-823641
Email: archive@kent.ac.uk

For more information:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive
www.bcla.org

THE 13th ANNUAL TRIESTE JOYCE SCHOOL

The Trieste Joyce School, an international gathering with a distinctly comparative flavour, will run from Sunday 28th June to Saturday 4th July 2009, at the University of Trieste's Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali. Speakers include John McCourt, Barry McCrea and Fritz Senn. Further details at http://www2.units.it/~triestejoyce/, or email John McCourt (mccourt@units.it).

"THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE 1890-1930"

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference took place at University College Dublin on September 25th and 26th, 2009. Proposals invited. Contact Selena Daly and Monica Insinga. Details <<HERE>> - Click <<HERE>> for full programme.

"TRANSLATION RIGHT OR WRONG", MARCH 2008

Trinity College hosted a translation conference on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th March 2008. There were 90 participants. Speakers included Josephine Balmer, Lawrence Venuti, Luise von Flotow, Beverley Adab, Carol O'Sullivan, Minako O'Hagan, Kitty Shields and Simone Schroth. Details <<HERE>>

CLAI FIRST POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM HELD IN 2008-- PROGRAMME: CLICK >>>>HERE<<<<

The Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI) held its First Postgraduate Symposium at Dublin City University (School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies) on Saturday, November 29 (following the national launch of CLAI at the Royal Irish Academy on Friday, November 28). There was a wide and varied programme of papers.

Through its First Postgraduate Symposium, CLAI aimed to address the current state of Postgraduate Studies in Ireland. We gathered new researchers in the field of Comparative Literature, offering them the opportunity to present their current research. The aim was to explore the latest theoretical and methodological practices , provide a supportive environment for those new to presenting conference papers and, last but not least, provide a lively and stimulating platform.

The conference was open not only to the broad community of postgraduate students in Comparative Literature, but also to all those who may be considering engaging in study or research in the field. A poster session allowed third-level institutions and research centres to present their various programmes and projects. Presentations, in English, lasted 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. PowerPoint facilities were available.

More than two dozen proposals were received by the deadline of Friday November 7, 2008. Papers dealt with many aspects of Comparative Literature. Abstracts in English were included in the final programme announcement, with title, abstract, institution, email address and keywords.

The organizing committee was: brigitte.lejuez@dcu.ie, jean-philippe.imbert@dcu.ie and bevin.doyle25@mail.dcu.ie, Proceedings were considered for an online publication on the CLAI website (www.complit.org ). >>>>VERSIONE ITALIANA DELL'INVITO ALLA PARTECIPAZIONE<<<<.

To contribute NEWS items, contact Mark Quinn

Mark Quinn is serving as Public Relations Officer of CLAI - Comparative Literature Association of Ireland. He will be compiling regular lists of news, events and issues, to be posted on this page and circulated by email to interested members. If you have a regular News and Events page within your own institution, or if you have individual events to publicize, please make contact with Mark by email: comparative.ireland (at) gmail.com - please click on the "Calendar of Events" below.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS <<CLICK HERE>>

Ireland has many cultural events of interest to comparatists. For a sample of current and recent events click <<HERE>>. Please submit new events to mark.quinn@ucd.ie

SAMPLE NEWS: Comp Lit Lectureship at Trinity

From October 2008 the MPhil degrees in Literary Translation and Compoarative Literature at TCD have a permanent lecturer providing core courses in theory, methodology and history. The job was filled in April 2008 and the new colleague is Dr Peter Arnds, formerly of Kansas State University.