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The FILLM Newsletter Volume 7 | June 2016

Next Volume The next volume of The FILLM Newsletter will come out on 15 September 2016. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter or have some information for us to include, please send a message to aborch@abo.fi (Deadline: 1 September 2016). FILLM News The 27th FILLM Congress As mentioned in the last newsletter, the next International FILLM Congress is rapidly approaching. The Congress will take place from 15-17 March 2017 in New Delhi, India. It is hosted by Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi and the local organizers are FILLM President Meenakshi Bharat and the University of Delhi. The Call for Papers is now open and you can submit proposals on the theme "The Familiar and  the Exotic in Language and Literature: The Politics of Perception and Representation" until the 31 August 2016. To read the entire Call for Papers.... The official webpages for the Congress are now also online. There is still some details missing but in the near future you'll be able to find all salient information about the Congress there. To access the Congress pages... Don't forget to listen to the two podcasts we have published in the run-up to the Congress. The first was a talk by Dr Sukrita Paul Kumar (Aruna Asaf Chair, the University of Delhi) on the interesting and often vexing issue of multilingualism and multiculturalism in India. The second featured a lecture by Professor Anvita Abbi (Director of the Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature at the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi) on the topic "Vanishing Voices: What Happens When Langauge Dies". FILLM Book Series The FILLM Book Series, FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures (John Benjamins), is starting to gain momentum. We're happy to announce that the 4th volume in the series is set to be published in October this year. The volume is entitled Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry and focuses more specifically on the poetry of John Ashbury, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman. The book is written by Elina Siltanen (University of Turku, Finland). For more information... Siltanen's book comes hot-on-the-heels of the second and the third volume in the series which were published earlier this year. In case you missed it, the second volume is entitled Literature in Contemporary Media Culture. Technology. Subjectivity. Aesthetics and consists of 11 articles which, as it reads in the synopsis, seek to explore how "contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part" and how scholars "study literature in order to shed light on these responses". The collection of articles is edited by Sarah J. Paulson and Anders Skare Malvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). For more details... Volume three, Deep Locational Criticism. Imaginative Place in Research and Teaching, is written by Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University) and the book is "devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of location." For more details ... Finally, remember that members of FILLM's Member Associations are entitled to a 30% discount on volumes in the FILLM Book Series, FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures (John Benjamins). The 29th FILLM Congress (2023) FILLM is also still looking for potential hosts for its 29th Congress in 2023. For more information on the FILLM Congresses, their aims and structure, please see here. If you have any further questions and queries or if you wish to put in a proposal, you can contact FILLM's Secretary-General, Dr. Tom Clark. Remember you can also follow FILLM on both Facebook and Twitter! News from CIPSH and our Member Associations The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) has recently updated its website. Check it out - it looks great! You might also be interested in knowing that CIPSH will co-organize The World Humanities Conference together with UNESCO and LIEGETOGETHER. The conference will take place in Liege, Belgium from 6-12 August 2017. For more information, keep track of CIPSH's website.... The 17th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) will be held from 11-15 July 2016 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The theme of the conference is "Ideas of Postcolonial Culture: Inclusions and Exclusions". For more information... The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA/AILC) will hold its 21st Congress at the University of Vienna, Austria between 21-27 July 2016. The theme of the congress is "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature". For more information... The next triennial conference of IAUPE (The International Association for University Professors of English) will take place at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London from 24-29 July 2016. The conference does not have a specific theme, but is organised around a series of period sections. For more information, please visit the conference website. The 31st conference of IASS (International Association for Scandinavian Studies) will be held at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) from 9-13 August 2016. The theme is "Transit Norden och Europa". For more information, see the conference website. The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) will hold its 13th biannual conference at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland). The conference will takes place from 22-26 August 2016. For more information ... In April 2016, the Global Rhetoric Society (GRS) got a new sub-society, "The Society for National Communication Studies". The two societies will hold the first top forum on National Communication Studies at Anhui Normal University in Wuhu, China from 16-18 July 2016. The theme of the forum is "Theoretical Construction of National Communication Studies". For more information...  Remember the GRS are also co-organizers of the "First Biennial Conference of the Global Discourse Society & The International Academic Symposium" to be held in Hubei, China from 22-25 September 2016. The Conference theme is "Construction of Global Discourse System". For more information... The Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA) will have its next conference from 7-9 December 2016. It will be hosted by Victoria University and held in Melbourne, Australia. The theme for the convention will be "Love and the Word". NB. Registration for the conference is now open!. For more information ... The Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) has announced that its 18th Congress will be held in Bogotá, Colombia in July 2017. For more information... Call for Papers FILLM is looking for contributions to its book series FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures. 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... FILLM is also looking for paper proposals to the 27th International FILLM Congress to be held in New Delhi, India from 15-17 March 2017. The Call for Papers is now out. Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2016. For more information and to download the Call for Papers... The Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) has now released the Call for Papers for its 18th Congress to be held in Bogotá, Colombia in July 2017. Deadline for submissions is 30 March 2017 24 November 2016. For more information and to download the CfP... The Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA) has extended the deadline for submitting paper proposals for their conference on "Love and the Word". The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, December 2016. The new deadline is 1 July 2016. To see the CfP... Circulation The FILLM Newsletter reaches more than 14,000 individual scholars and over 60 international academic organisations. It is circulated in email form to FILLM's member associations, CIPSH and scholars who have taken part in FILLM's Congresses and former FILLM committee members. It is also available online via FILLM's website. 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