{"id":26159,"date":"2024-10-16T13:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=26159"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:28:55","slug":"26159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2024\/10\/16\/26159\/","title":{"rendered":"29th Annual CLIFF Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>Call for Papers<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>science\u2014literature\u2014technology<\/em><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>rupture, relation, constellation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">29th Annual CLIFF Conference<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">March 21-22, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Research begins with a question\u2014an uncertainty\u2014an openness. In both the sciences and the humanities, the core position of the researcher is one of uncertainty on the edge of knowledge and understanding. For this year\u2019s CLIFF conference, the organizers invite research and thought on doubt, dubiousness, and rupture at the intersections of humanist disciplines, as well as on constellations of academic research, life, politics, ethics, science, and technology. This conference asks scholars to think comparatively not just among languages, but among modes of thought and investigation throughout and beyond the academy.<\/p>\n<p>For our 29th annual conference, the Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) invites 15-minute presentations based in literary analysis, critical theory, history, politics, philosophy, anthropology, translation studies, science and technology studies, and interdisciplinary work. The majority of our presentations will take the form of academic papers, but creative work, performance, and\/or visual media are also acceptable. We are interested in exploring some of the following concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Epistemology and perception through literature<\/li>\n<li>Technology in literature, technologies of literature<\/li>\n<li>Environmental humanities, climate criticism, eco-criticism<\/li>\n<li>Artifact politics and new materialist agencies<\/li>\n<li>Precarity and instability in political and social bodies<\/li>\n<li>Rhizomatics, constellations, and alternative networked topologies<\/li>\n<li>Temporal elements of thought and narrative<\/li>\n<li>Literary histories of science and knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Incompleteness, instability of archive and information<\/li>\n<li>Uncertainty in memory<\/li>\n<li>Economic precarity and ephemerality<\/li>\n<li>Impermanence, permeability of political and material borders<\/li>\n<li>Vagueness and ambiguity in translation<\/li>\n<li>Deconstructing \u201cThe Two Cultures\u201d of science and literature<\/li>\n<li>Liminal spaces, third states, and the unspeakable<\/li>\n<li>Rupture, crisis, paradigm shift<\/li>\n<li>Theory and technology<\/li>\n<li>Ambiguity of expression and unreliable narrators<\/li>\n<li>Intersemiotics, representing the world through language<\/li>\n<li>Abjection, subjectivity, and coherence<\/li>\n<li>Dynamism, stasis, and disrupted binaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 November 30, 2024. The subject line of your email should be \u201cCLIFF 2025 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>Caroline Sullivan, Ben Woodworth<\/p>\n<p>CLIFF Committee 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers science\u2014literature\u2014technology rupture, relation, constellation 29th Annual CLIFF Conference University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 21-22, 2025 Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024 Research begins with a question\u2014an uncertainty\u2014an openness. In both the sciences and the humanities, the core position of the researcher is one of uncertainty on the edge of knowledge and understanding. [&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\/26159"}],"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=26159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26234,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26159\/revisions\/26234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}