Consider the following thought experiment: Imagine that humans had evolved not on dry land\, but in the depths of the ocean. What would human culture look like? How could it be transmitted? Co uld there be anything resembling literature\, without the possibility of in scription? Could there be such a thing as aquatic circulation?
This b rief speculative thought-experiment is meant to foreground the role of mate rial infrastructures in the creation\, preservation\, and circulation of li terature and related symbolic forms and their intercultural transfer. The t heme of the Eighth Sino-American Symposium on Comparative and World Literat ure is meant to focus our attention on the complex\, triangular relationshi p between materiality\, infrastructure\, and circulation in comparative an d world literature. We welcome papers on literature and related media such as cinema\, television\, and visual and material cultures. Related topics m ay include:
Papers delivered at the Symposium will be considered for a special issue of Comparative Literature Studie s on this topic.
Participants in the symposium will receive lodg ing for Thursday\, Friday\, and Saturday\, and most of their meals to be in cluded in the conference registration of $100.
Please submit an abstr act of 100 words or less and brief bio to cl-studies@psu.eduby 25 February 2019
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