Revolution & Evolution BCLA Graduate Conference

Revolution & Evolution
A Postgraduate Conference, 10th-11th July 2014, University of Essex, UK

The University of Essex and the British Comparative Literature Association invite postgraduates to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference. We welcome proposals from students in the Humanities, including Literature, Film, Theatre Studies and Creative Writing. We seek papers exploring revolution and evolution in disciplines ranging from gender studies and cultural geography to myth, folklore studies and nature writing.

Possible topics may include:

Development, progression, transformation and expansion of cultural tropes and motifs
Evolution of theory and critical thinking
Revolutions and challenges of theory
Transfiguration of anarchy, rebellion and insurgency
Metamorphosis of place, space, and time
Transgression and vice
Psychogeography
Special Strand: The Student Movement: 1968

This conference includes a special strand celebrating the 50th anniversary of the university. We will be screening Jean-Luc Godard’s British Sounds (1969), which was filmed at The University of Essex in 1968. In addition we will offer a poetry reading inspired by the theme.

Keynote Speakers: Peter Hulme (University of Essex, UK)
John Haynes (University of Essex, UK)

We welcome proposals on all aspects of revolution and evolution, understood as the evolution of texts, genres, theories, languages and beings across space and time, preceded or followed by revolutionary or reactionary agents and actions.

Deadline for submission of proposals for individual / collaborative papers or panels: 1 March 2014

Please send proposals, no longer than 250 words, and a brief biographical statement (50 words) to: [email protected]