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MLA 2015
Vancouver, Canada
January 8-11, 2015
Deadline: March 15, 2014
"Victorian Travelers and Cultural
Memory"
Dr. Andrea Kaston Tange is putting together
special session for MLA 2015 seeks papers that consider how travel writings
"rely on, create, reinvent, or consolidate collective memories of
places/cultures/events in an age of colonial expansion." The panel chair would
like to put together a panel that considers a range of perspectives and/or
travel destinations. The 2015 MLA theme is memory, and this panel would
like to think broadly about cultural memory as a kind of collective of
impressions that shapes people's understanding of the foreign. Any kind of
work that considers how travelers themselves depend upon cultural constructions
or memories of other places and/or that investigates what travel writing does
to help build consensus or invent "memories" of places for the
benefit of armchair travelers would be welcome.
300-word proposals and brief CVs can be
sent to akastont@emich.edu via email; deadline. March 15, 2014. Indicate AV
needs, please.
Please note that this is a CFP for a
special session; Dr. Tange will submit a session proposal by April 1, and the panelists will
be notified by early June about acceptance into the conference.
The official CFP can be viewed here: https://www.mla.org/cfp_review&id=7112&exit_page=cfp_main
(but this requires an MLA member login).
