 | Volume 23 | July 2021 |
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FILLM News
FILLM's 28th CongressThe 28th International Congress of FILLM is right around the corner. Initially set to take place at the University of Vienna in July 2020, the Congress will now be organized online later this month (19-21 July 2021). We are all excited about the event and hope it will be the venue for fruitful intellectual discussions.
All participants should now have received instructions on how to present their papers, but if, for some reason, you haven't, do make contact with the organizers....
On the day prior to the Congress (18 July), the FILLM Committee will hold its meeting. All Committee members should have received the agenda (and relevant documents) as well as an invitation to the online platform in which the meeting will take place. Again, if you haven't, do get in touch with either Tom Clark or Adam Borch...
FILLM Book Series: Change in Editor
In the spring of 2021, former FILLM President Roger D. Sell (Åbo Akademi) decided to step down as Editor of FILLM's bookseries, FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures (John Benjamins). On 31 May, the role was taken over by current FILLM Vice-President Haun Saussy (University of Chicago).
Sell set up FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures
in 2012 when he was President of FILLM. During his time as Editor,
fifteen high-quality volumes have been published in the series on
topics which reflect the broad scope of the federation.
Beyond
the fifteen published volumes, Sell has had to read and assess numerous
manuscripts during his editorship. It is a job that, largely, has gone
unnoticed and unacknowledge but which, nonetheless, have been extremely
valuable for the federation. For this, for creating the bookseries, and
for his tireless dedication FILLM is forever grateful.
From the entire federation: Many thanks and hearty congratulations on a job well done, Roger!
The
series' new Editor, Haun Saussy, is already at work on the next
publications and we hope to be able to present new exciting volumes in
the near future.
Until then, please do check out our backcatalogue on John Benjamins website and remember that all FILLM's members are entitled to a 30% discount.
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, Canada from 11-15 July 2022.
Theme: "The Ruptured Commons". Deadline for submitting proposals is 1 October 2021. For more...
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 has passed. For more...ALUS is organizing its third international conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara on 17-19 February 2022. Theme: "Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal". Deadline for submitting proposals: 1 August 2021. For more...
The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
is organizing its next triennial congress in Tblisi, Georgia from 24-29 July 2022. Theme: "Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins". Deadline for proposals: 31 August 2021 (groups), 31 December (individual). Keep an eye on the congress 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. For more.
The Children's Literature Association (ChLA) will hold its next conference in Atlanta, Georgia from 1-4 June 2022. More details coming soon...
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. 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 no longer possible to submit proposals for parallel lectures, seminars and round tables. 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". 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 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...
The 3rd issue was recently published. Theme: "Truth and Belief". It can be read here...
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 FILLM Vice-President Haun Saussy is the Series Editor. For more on the aims of the series and how to submit a book proposal...
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