ALCA CFP: "How to Do Theory with Examples"

Dylan Furcall Announcement
Location
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Humanities, Intellectual History, Languages, Literature

We would like to invite submissions to our panel “How to Do Theory With Examples” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 2023. Please submit a paper proposal of up to 1500 words at the link above by October 31. The conference will take place March 16-19, 2023 in Chicago.

 

Our panel seeks to investigate exemplification as a rhetorical and artistic practice that actively transforms sources (from which examples are extracted) and generates theories (which examples support). At stake is the problem of lending concreteness to ideas while negotiating the tendency of “concrete examples” to in fact become concealed abstractions. We suggest that works of literature, art, and theory that expose this very risk – specifically through the giving and interrogating of their own examples – provide important starting points to theorize exemplification as a problem and potential internal to any semiotic system. Please consider submitting work on case studies, quotations, extracts, puncta, details, etc., from any field.

 

For the full description of our panel, please see the Call for Papers at the link above.

 

If you have any questions regarding the topic or submissions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at  ajlin@berkeley.edu and dylan_furcall@berkeley.edu.

Contact Email
dylan_furcall@berkeley.edu