 | Volume 20 | December 2019 |
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FILLM News
This final FILLM Newsletter of 2019 comes to you with some important news from FILLM as well as its member associations.
In relation to the latter, we're very please to announce The Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) as FILLM's latest member. Below you'll find an brief introduction to ALUS as well as a link to their website. Further down, there's information about their next event, the association's general meeting, which will be at the end of January 2020. There you'll also find several news and Call for Papers from our other member associations.
One Call for Papers that we would like to draw particular attention to is the one to FILLM's 28th Congress in July 2020. The deadline for submitting panel and paper proposals is at the end of December this year and we urge you all to come and join us in Vienna, Austria!
New Member: The Association for Literary Urban Studies
The Association for Literary Urban Studies (also known as ALUS) joined FILLM back in October.
In short, ALUS provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for scholars studying the city in literature. Membership is free, and all scholars working within literary urban studies are warmly invited to join the association. It aims to foster interdisciplinary research on city literature, including literature written in all languages and encompassing all historical periods.
If you're interested in city literature, we highly recommend that you visit ALUS's website and keep an eye on their activities.
ALUS will be represented on the FILLM Committee by its current President, Jason Finch.
Call for Papers for FILLM's 28th Congress
Please note that the deadline for submitting paper and panel proposals for the FILLM Congress is 31 December 2019!! and is organized by FILLM Vice-President Dr. Adams Bodomo.
The overall theme of the Congress is "Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective". FILLM and the Congress organizers now invite scholars to submit individual paper proposals as well as panel proposals that address this broad theme. Individual papers and panels are also invited that address one of the following five sub-themes (which are ultimately related to the main theme):
- Multilingualism and linguistic plurality in local and global perspectives
- New genres of literature in the era of social media and new communication technologies
- Cultural diversity in film
- Linguistic and literary studies in diaspora and migrant communities
- German language and literature in global perspectives
For more detailed information, please read the entire Call for Papers. It can be downloaded here.
To allow speakers sufficient time to acquite the necessary funding, the Congress organizers will assess the abstracts as they come in. Acceptance letters will be sent out on 31 July 2019, 30 September 2019, 30 November 2019 and 31 January 2020.
FILLM Book Series
We're also pleased to announced that no less than 4(!) new volumes in the FILLM Books Series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures (John Benjamins) has been published this autumn.
The volumes include two edited volumes (one a collection of papers from the 27th FILLM Congress in New Delhi, India in 2017), one collection of papers and a monograph:As always, the books are published by John Benjamins and members of FILLM's Member Associations are entitled to a 30% discount on volumes in the series.
News from CIPSH and our Member Associations
The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) - has created a new magazine entitled HAS - The Magazine of Humanities, Arts and Society. You can read more about the aims and goals of the publication in the first call for papers...
The Modern Language Association will hold its next annual convention in Seattle, US. Dates: 9-12 January 2020. Presidential theme: "Being Human". For more information...The next general meeting of the Association for Urban Literary Studies will take place in Turku, Finland. Date: 31 January 2020. For more information...
The next Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) will held in Chicago, US between 19-22 March 2020. For more details... 
The 2020 conference of the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) will be held in Washington, US. Theme: "Sustainability Through Story: Eco-Justice, Children's Literature, and Childhood". For more details, see the ChLA website...
The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) will hold its 13th conference in Nairobi, Kenya from 8-10 July 2020. The theme of the conference is "Transitions, Transformations, and Translocations in African Oral Traditions and (Re)imagined Boundaries". For more information...
The International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS)
will hold a conference on the theme of "Memory Culture in Scandinavian
Studies" between 2-4 August 2020. The conference will be held in
Vilnius, Lithuania. For more details... 
The 19th International Congress of the Asociación de Lingüistica y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) will take place in La Paz, Bolivia between 10-14 August 2020. For more information...
The Europen Society for the Study of English holds its 15th Conference in Lyon, France from 31 August-4 September 2020. For more details...
The Modern Language Association (MLA) will hold its annual convention in 2021 in Toronto, Canada. Dates: 7-10 January 2021. For more information...The 2021 conference of the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Theme: "The Arcade". For more details, see the ChLA website...
The International Association for University Professors of English (IAUPE) will hold its next triennial conference in Sidney, Australia in July 2022. As of yet not much information is out, but keep an eye on the association's website.
Call for Papers
FILLM is looking for contributions to its book series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures. While FILLM is looking for contributions within all areas of language and literature studies, we're particularly keen to receive proposals focusing on linguistic, philological and pedagogical topics.The series is published in collaboration with John Benjamins Publishing Company and former FILLM President Roger D. Sell is the Series Editor. For more on the aims of the series and how to submit a book proposal...
The International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS)
will hold a conference on the theme of "Memory Culture in Scandinavian
Studies" between 2-4 August 2020. The conference will be held in
Vilnius, Lithuania. The CfP is out and the deadline for submitting abstracts is 25 January 2020. For more details... The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) - has created a new magazine entitled HAS - The Magazine of Humanities, Arts and Society and they're looking for contributions to the first issue. Theme: "Big Data & Singularities: Creativity as a Basis for Re-thinking the Human Condition." You can download the call for papers here...
The CfP for the 13th conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) is now out. The conference will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 8-10 July 2020 and the theme is "Transitions, Transformations, and Translocations in African Oral Traditions and (Re)imagined Boundaries". The deadline for submitting abstracts is 29 February 2020. For more information...
It's now possible to submit panel proposals for the 2021 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). The convention will take place in Toronto, Canada between 7-10 January 2021. Deadline: 1 April 2020. For more information...Circulation
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