Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:07:46 GMT + 2:00
From: Rita Wilson <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za>
Subject: Re: conference announcement - please post
Apologies for any cross-posting
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR GENERAL LITERARY STUDIES (SAVAL)
BIENNIAL MAIN CONGRESS
HOSTED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
A SENSE OF SPACE
2-5 JUNE 1998
An international, interdisciplinary conference will be held at the
University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg from Tuesday 2 June to
Friday 5 June 1998. The theme of the Congress, "A Sense of Space"
aims to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines and to
stimulate debate around "the spatial forms and fantasies through
which a culture declares its presence" (Paul Carter).
Proposals are invited for papers addressing the conference theme and
related areas.
Topics could include:
Narrative Metaphors: Labyrinths, Mazes, Worlds
Architectural space, Landscapes
Images and Realities
Nation, Space, Identities
Utopias
Travel Writing
Colonial Space, Centres, Peripheries, Boundaries
Spatiality: Subjectivity, Metaphysical
Theatrical and Visual space
Cyberspace
Translation, Transgression, Transposition
Psychoanalysis
Social Space
The Congress will be held back to back with the AGM and seminar of
the South African Translators' Institute (SATI). This offers a unique
opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion. Interdisciplinary
papers between these two fields are encouraged (this would apply
particularly to literary translation).
Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Those wishing to present papers
at the Congress are invited to send a provisional title and a brief
synopsis not later than 1 NOVEMBER 1997. Your paper will be scheduled
in an appropriate session.
Papers delivered at the Congress will appear in published
Proceedings. These will also be made available on the Internet via
the SAVAL homepage.
Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to:
Rita Wilson or Carlotta von Maltzan
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Private Bag 3
WITS 2050
Phone: (+27 11) 716 3270 or (+27 11) 716 3426
Fax: (+27 11) 403 7289
E-mail: 099rita@muse.arts.wits.ac.za or
120car@muse.arts.wits.ac.za
The University of the Witwatersrand is located in the largest
metropolitan area and the industrial and commercial heart of South
Africa. Wits is recognised both nationally and internationally for
the quality of its graduates and its excellence in teaching, research
and service to society. It has a longstanding commitment to
university autonomy, academic freedom and non-discrimination. The
Congress will be centred on the university's West Campus, located
only minutes from Johannesburg's city centre.
Full details of the Congress, including registration forms, will be
forwarded at a later stage but any general enquiries now should be
addressed to the Convener of the Organising Committee, c/o The
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the above address.
SAVAL (The South African Society for General Literary Studies) is an
important interdisciplinary forum for general literary discussion,
especially in the areas of literary theory and comparative
literature. While most of its membership has been traditionally drawn
from Departments of English and Afrikaans, at present it has 250
members from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from Theology to
Romance Literatures. SAVAL (the acronym is derived from the Afrikaans
name of the Society) is affiliated to the International Comparative
Literature Association. SAVAL members regularly participate in
activities of the ICLA. SAVAL is in fact in the final stages of a bid
to host the 2000 ICLA Congress.
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Rita Wilson
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Private Bag 3, WITS 2050
Tel: +27 11 7163270
Fax: +27 11 4037289
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