 | Volume 22 | April 2021 |
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FILLM News
New Members!
Back in January, FILLM was very happy to annouce that the Iberio-American Organization of Rhetoric (OIR) had joined the federation. The main purpose of the OIR is to promote and disseminate rhetoric studies from any place and time in Ibero-America. The OIR will be represented on the FILLM Committee by Professor Gerardo Ramírez Vidal. For more on the OIR...
And here in April, we are similarly pleased to tell that the International Association for Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) - in French, Association Internationale pour l'Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image (AIERTI) - has also decided to become a member. IAWIS/AERTI seeks to foster the study of Word and Image relations in a general cultural context, and especially in the arts in the broadest sense. For more on IAWIS/AERTI...
A hearty welcome to both organizations - we hope it's the start of a long and fruiful collaboration.
The FILLM General Meeting 2020
The FILLM Committee gathered for a General Meeting online back in July 2020. The meeting was supposed to have taken place in connection with 28th FILLM Congress in Vienna, but with the postponement of that event till June 2021, it was decided to hold the meeting online.
The main item on the agenda was the election of a new Committee for the period 2020-2023. New FILLM President is Professor Adams Bodomo (University of Vienna) who replaces Professor Margaret Higonnet. To see the entire FILLM Committee...
Due to a late withdrawal, however, it was not possible to elect a Treasurer at the meeting. It was therefore decided that Margaret Higonnet should remaind on the Committee as interim Treasurer until another candidate could be found and elected by the Committee. This was done at another online meeting in November 2020 when Associate Professor Petra Broomans (University of Groeningen) was eleced Treasurer for the priod 2020-2023.
At the General Meeting in June 2020, it was also agreed to amend the Constitution so as to establish an Executive Working Group within the Committee. This Working Group consists of FILLM's incumbent President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary-General, Treasurer and Communications Officer. The aim of the amendment is to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of FILLM by granting the Executive Working Group the authority to act and make decision on behalf of the FILLM Committee. However, the FILLM Committee retains the power to rescind or amend any decisions taken by the Executive Working Group. For more...
FILLM's 28th CongressThe 28th International Congress of FILLM which was initially meant to take place at the University of Vienna, Austria in July 2020, was postponed last summer till 18-21 July 2021. The event is still set to go ahead, but will now be held entirely online. For more information about how the event will be organized, please check the Congress website...
FILLM Book Series
Two new volumes in the FILLM Books Series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures (John Benjamins) has recently been published:
News and Call for Papers
The next Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) will held in Taiwan between 15-18 June 2022. It will be possible to submit proposals from September 2021. For more details... 
The Asscoation for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS)
will hold its next conference in Toronto in July 2022. So far there is
not much further information available, but more will no doubt be
released soon so keep an eye on their website.
The Asscoation for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS)
is organizing a symposium with FRINGE Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections on
the theme "Urban (Im)mobilities and Borderland Narratives" at the
Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. It is a hybrid event that will take place
from 14-15 October 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals is 30 April 2021. For more...
The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
is organizing an early career conference in collaboration with
Princeton University between 4-6 June 2021. The deadline for submitting
proposals to this online event has passed, but you can read more about
it on the conference website. The ICLA's next triennial congress will take place in Tblisi, Georgia from 25-30 July 2022. Keep an eye on the ICLA website for more info.Please also note that the ICLA has its own newsletter which is published on its website. You can find the latest here.
AULLA, the Australian Universities Language and Literature Association, organizes Australia's Triennial Literary Studies Convention from 20-24 July 2021 under the theme "Texts and Their Limits". The event will be held online. It's not possible to submit paper proposals, but the organizers are keen to hear from anyone interested in using the conference for organizing workshops, meetings and book launches. For more.
The Children's Literature Association (ChLA) will hold its next conference virtually from 9-13 June 2021. The theme is "The Arcade". For more details...
The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) will hold its 15th conference from 30 August to 3 September 2021.
It was initially set to take place in Lyon, France, but will now be
held entirely online. It's no longer possible to submit proposals for
papers and posters as well as seminars, roundtables and parallel
lectures. But the call for participation in the Doctoral Symposium is open until 30 April 2021. For more information on that and the conference as a whole...ESSE has also announced that its 16th conference will take place in Mainz, Germany from 29 August to 2 September 2022. It is yet uncertain what the format will be. The Call for Papers is now out. It is possible to submit proposals for parallel lectures, seminars and round tables until 31 May 2021. For individual papers to the seminars and the doctoral symposium, the deadline is 31 January 2022. For more details check out the conference website...
The Iberio-American Organization of Rhetoric (OIR) holds its next conference at the University of Buenos Aires from 11-12 November 2021. The theme of the conference is "Las tramas retóricas de las memorias". The deadline for submitting abstract is 20 July 2021. To read the entire Call for Papers...
The next conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) will be held in Québec, Canada from 1-5 November 2021.
It will be a predominately online event. The theme of the conference is
"Practices of Dialogue, Dialogue in Practice - With Their Problems".
Deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 May 2021. More info... 
The International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS)
will hold its 33rd study conference on the theme of "Memory Culture in Scandinavian
Studies" between 3-6 August 2021. The conference will be held in
Vilnius, Lithuania and aims to be a hybrid gathering. It is no longer possible to submit proposals. For more details...
The International Association for Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AERTI) holds its next triennial conference at the University of Luxembourg from 12-16 July 2021. Theme: "Water and Sea in Word and Image". It is no longer possible to submit proposals, but the conference program has recently been published. For more, see the conference website... 
The International Association for University Professors of English (IAUPE) was set to hold its next triennial conference between 18-22 July 2022. It has since been moved to July 2023. The place - Sidney, Australia - remains the same. As of yet not much else information is out, but keep an eye on the association's website.
The International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA)
will hold its 13th conference in Nairobi, Kenya from 8-10 July 2021. The theme of the conference is "Transitions, Transformations, and
Translocations in African Oral Traditions and (Re)imagined Boundaries".
For more information... 
The Finnish Literary Research Society (KTS) organizes the yearly Literary Research Study Days from 5-7 May 2021. The theme of the event is "Senses". It is organized entirely online. For more information..
The Modern Language Association (MLA) will hold its next annual convention from 6-9 January 2022
in Washington DC. Presidential theme: Multilingual US. It is still
possible to propose so-called "just-in-time sessions" for the
convention. For more information...
The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) - is involved with the magazine HAS - The Magazine of Humanities, Arts and Society. HAS is looking for contributions to its 4th issue on the topic "Engagment and Contemplation. Two Elements Inherent of Care". The deadline for submissions is 8 July 2021. You can read more about HAS and the entire CfP here...
CIPSH is also co-organizing the European Humanities Conference between 5-7 May 2021. It is hosted in Lisbon, Portugal but is an online event. For more information...
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...
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