[csaa-forum] Updated CfP: Texts and Their Limits

[Tom Clark]

++Texts and Their Limits++
 
Australia's Triennial Literary Studies Convention 
July 20-24, 2021

Updated Call for Proposals

What is the nature of text - and how do we define where it begins and where it ends? How might such definitions influence the ways in which we read and
accord significance to different kinds of textual production? And at a time of political, social and environmental crises, what roles have texts played in the deep cultural divisions we see around us, and what are the possibilities for texts to heal division, discrimination and despair? Are there limits to the social benefits that texts can provide in troubling times?

We seek proposals for papers which address these questions across a broad range of textual disciplines and practices from literary, historical, and cultural studies as well as
languages, linguistics, and semiotics. This includes exegetical work within creative arts fields of study as well as questions of teaching and learning.

We especially encourage proposals that address themes which have emerged during the response to our initial CfP. These include, but are not limited to:
* Limits around the texts that scholars deem worthy topics for Literary studies.
* The physical and psychodynamic limitations of texts and of the media that carry them.
* Spatial, diachronic, and cultural limits on the distribution and comprehension of texts.
* Ethical and legal limits around the production, reception, and exchange of texts
* Limits to what is accepted practice in Literary Studies and related fields.
* Texts negotiating the limits to what is sayable, how, and to what ends.
* Limits that bear on the teaching and learning of textual studies, including:
        o the supervision and examination of literary and creative writing/exegetical theses.
        o the intersections between secondary and tertiary literature pedagogies.

In 2021, the Literary Studies Convention will be a fully digital event. In this updated CfP, we seek proposals for:
* Individual presentations (15 minute presentations) - please include all presenter names and affiliations, proposed title, and an abstract of up to 200 words, ensuring
that your proposal addresses the conference theme/sub-theme.
* Interactive panels or workshops (60 or 90 minute timeslots) - please include all presenter and chair/facilitator names and affiliations, proposed title of the session,
and an abstract of up to 600 words. This abstract should include a clear view of the session's proposed interactive activities.

Please submit proposals to <litstudiesproposals at gmail.com> by 12 April 2021.