{"id":25257,"date":"2023-10-18T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=25257"},"modified":"2023-10-18T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:49:00","slug":"cliff-complit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2023\/10\/18\/cliff-complit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CLIFF Complit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><u>Call for Papers<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Death and Its Afterlives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>De\/composing Boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>28th Annual CLIFF Conference<\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/p>\n<p>March 8-9, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susana Draper, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please circulate widely the following CFP, with more details included in the attached document:<\/p>\n<p>From necropolitics to ecological decline, from digital dead links to haunted sites, from the material ruins of late capitalism to the allegorical decay of \u201clate style,\u201d this year\u2019s CLIFF conference seeks to de\/compose the boundaries between the living and the dead. We hope to bring together a diverse set of critical interests and disciplines on a terrain where death and precarious (after)lives lay bare the politics of exclusion, the erosion of memory, and the ethical responsibilities that confront us in the face of current crises. Our graduate student-organized conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues; we welcome researchers, independent scholars, and artists to join us in exploring death, rebirth, and the in-between.<\/p>\n<p>For our 28th annual conference, the Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) invites 15 minute presentations based in literary analysis, critical theory, history, politics, anthropology, translation studies, and interdisciplinary work. These presentations may take the form of academic papers, creative work, performance, and\/or visual media. We are interested in exploring some of the following concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning to live: trauma, memory, &amp; survivorship<\/li>\n<li>Necro\/biopolitics, sovereignty, &amp; power<\/li>\n<li>Material vibrancy, non-human agency, animacy, &amp; affective assemblages<\/li>\n<li>Hauntings and the spectral state of borders &amp; \u2018in-between\u2019 space<\/li>\n<li>Representations of zombies &amp; aesthetics of the undead<\/li>\n<li>States of precarity, migrant afterlives &amp; refugee narratives<\/li>\n<li>Carceral poetry &amp; life writing<\/li>\n<li>Temporalities of the archive and antiquity<\/li>\n<li>Queer and trans lives, deaths, and afterlives<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo Man\u2019s Lands,\u201d \u201cDead Zones,\u201d &amp; Third Landscapes<\/li>\n<li>Climate catastrophes, environmental degradation, &amp; ecological deadness<\/li>\n<li>Interreactive media, digital dead spaces, &amp; dissonant anti\/phantom narratives<\/li>\n<li>Ruin pornography, sites of abandonment, &amp; documenting decay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are very pleased to announce that this year\u2019s keynote speaker will be Dr. Susana Draper, professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Dr. Draper is a scholar of Latin American and migration literature, and the author of <em>Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America <\/em>(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) and <em>1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy <\/em>(Duke University Press, 2018), among other publications. Her work includes research on migration in the Americas, Latin American marxisms and feminisms, political theory, memory, and social movements.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as a PDF to <a href=\"mailto:cliff.complit@umich.edu\">cliff.complit@umich.edu<\/a> by December 15, 2023. The subject line of your email should be \u201cCLIFF 2024 Abstract\u2013(Last Name).\u201d Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the conference organizers.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing your work!<\/p>\n<p>Arianna Afsari, CC Barrick, Delsa Lopez, and Sanjana Ramanathan<br \/>\nCLIFF Committee 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers Death and Its Afterlives: De\/composing Boundaries 28th Annual CLIFF Conference University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 8-9, 2024 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susana Draper, Princeton University Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023 Please circulate widely the following CFP, with more details included in the attached document: From necropolitics to ecological decline, from digital dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25258,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25257\/revisions\/25258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}