The 2024 Biennial Meeting will take place on June 23-25, 2024, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
2024年雙年會，將於2024年6月23—25日，舉辦在香港科技大學（香港九龍清水灣）。
2024年雙年會，將於2024年6月23—25日，舉辦在香港科技大學（香港九龍清水灣）。
Call for Papers 論文徵集通告
Conference theme: Behold the Human
會議主題：展望人類
What is human? What changes have occurred in the human realm (renjian)? What challenges have impacted on the humanities? Where do we locate the human as biological, sociopolitical, and ecological beings? In what forms do and can they exist? These questions need answers now more than ever. The first ACCL biennial conference to be held fully in person since the pandemic can be the right moment for us—we scholars of Chinese and Comparative Literature—to reflect on the accelerating changes that have unsettled the humancentric knowledge, humanist creations, and human positions in the world. At a new epoch when the posthuman arrives, the inhuman prevails, and anti-humanism edges into political culture, we are facing the unknown and uncertain—a perfect chaos where we can behold the human once again.
A reexamination of the literary representations of the human in epistemological, moral, and aesthetic terms is the main task of the 2024 ACCL conference. We invite scholars to present research on (but not limited to) the following topics: revisiting traditional humanism, the use and abuse of the humane literature, the modern constructs/deconstructions of the human, the return/disappearance of the human in a world of things, the approaches to humanistic traditions in their local cultural and linguistic contexts, the Anthropocene and its discontents, and various forms of the extensions and mutations of the human in poetry, drama, and the novel; in classics, religious texts, and modernist literature; in popular culture, genre fiction, and cinema; and in public media, social media, games and metaverse, etc. We welcome theoretical interventions, historical studies, and cultural analyses in relation to Chinese/Sinophone literary discourse on the human/inhuman/posthuman.
Conference participants are encouraged to add their new thoughts to the above theme, and we look forward to a free exchange of ideas that can help us look more deeply into the human.
「人」是什麼？「人間」有何變化？人文學科正面臨哪些挑戰？我們應該如何理解和詮釋在生命、生活和生態中人存在的意義？這些「存在」是否可被呈現，以何種狀態呈現？當下，這些緊迫的問題都急需作為人文學者的我們的回應。作為自從疫情以來第一次全面線下舉行的年會，本屆中國文學與比較文學雙年會，誠邀諸位人文學者共同反思這些日益加劇的轉變如何撼動了以人類為中心的知識結構，型塑了人文主義傳統下的創造，以及重置了人在世界上的位置。當此一個新的時代開始，後人類已經到來，非人的境遇依然處處可見，反人文主義襲入政治文化，我們面對未知與不測——在完美的混沌中，讓我們再一次展望人類。
本次會議的主要任務是重新審視「人」在認識、倫理和審美層面的各類文學表現。我們邀請學者就以下（或其它）相關主題提交論文：傳統人文主義的重審、「人的文學」的運用或誤用、「人」的現代建構或解構、「人」在「物」的世界中的回歸或消失、人文傳統在在地方文化及語言環境中的研究方法、「人類世」及其不足、以及「人」在各類文學表現形式中的擴展與變異——包括詩歌、戲劇、小說；經典、宗教文本和現代文學；大眾文化、類型小說和影視作品；媒介、社交媒體、遊戲和元宇宙等等。我們歡迎有關華語文學領域的各種研究，尤為關注有關人/非人/後人類的理論探索、歷史研究和文化分析。
本屆大會鼓勵研究者對上述主題做出自己的新思考。我們期待一次自由的交流，讓我們可以更深入地理解何為「人」。
Conference information:
The official languages of the conference are Chinese and English. We welcome conference participants from all over the world. We accept proposals for organized panels and individual papers in English or Chinese. Organized panels can consist of three or four papers, with a coherent theme. Each panel should have a chair or/and a discussant. The chair and discussant can be the same person. Abstracts for individual papers and panel descriptions should be under 300 English words or 250 Chinese characters. When you submit abstracts, please make sure to include your full name, institutional affiliation, position, and your email address. No individual may submit more than one abstract, or be part of more than one panel.
會議參加者須知：
會議官方語言是中文和英文。我們歡迎來自世界各地的學者參與此次會議。我們接受用中文或英文提交的單篇論文或提前組織的論文小組。每篇論文的摘要，或每個論文小組的計劃書，不超過300個英文單詞或250個中文字。每組可以由三或四篇論文組成，需有一位主持人或評議人（主持人和評議人可以是同一個人）。提交摘要時，請附上全名、所在學術機構、職位/職稱、和電子郵件地址。任何人不得提交超過一篇摘要，或參與超過一個小組。
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2023
To submit a paper or panel proposal, please email to [email protected]
Acceptance Letters will be sent by January 31, 2024
申請截止日期：2023年12月31日
請將論文摘要或小組摘要郵寄到 [email protected]
本屆會議將在2024年1月31日發出接受函
Contact persons:
Mingwei Song, ACCL President ([email protected])
Jizhou Jannis Chen, ACCL Communication Officer ([email protected])
Jianmei Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology contact ([email protected])
會議聯絡人：
宋明煒，ACCL會長([email protected])
劉劍梅，香港科技大學合辦人 ([email protected])
陳濟舟，會務聯絡人 ([email protected])
會議主題：展望人類
What is human? What changes have occurred in the human realm (renjian)? What challenges have impacted on the humanities? Where do we locate the human as biological, sociopolitical, and ecological beings? In what forms do and can they exist? These questions need answers now more than ever. The first ACCL biennial conference to be held fully in person since the pandemic can be the right moment for us—we scholars of Chinese and Comparative Literature—to reflect on the accelerating changes that have unsettled the humancentric knowledge, humanist creations, and human positions in the world. At a new epoch when the posthuman arrives, the inhuman prevails, and anti-humanism edges into political culture, we are facing the unknown and uncertain—a perfect chaos where we can behold the human once again.
A reexamination of the literary representations of the human in epistemological, moral, and aesthetic terms is the main task of the 2024 ACCL conference. We invite scholars to present research on (but not limited to) the following topics: revisiting traditional humanism, the use and abuse of the humane literature, the modern constructs/deconstructions of the human, the return/disappearance of the human in a world of things, the approaches to humanistic traditions in their local cultural and linguistic contexts, the Anthropocene and its discontents, and various forms of the extensions and mutations of the human in poetry, drama, and the novel; in classics, religious texts, and modernist literature; in popular culture, genre fiction, and cinema; and in public media, social media, games and metaverse, etc. We welcome theoretical interventions, historical studies, and cultural analyses in relation to Chinese/Sinophone literary discourse on the human/inhuman/posthuman.
Conference participants are encouraged to add their new thoughts to the above theme, and we look forward to a free exchange of ideas that can help us look more deeply into the human.
「人」是什麼？「人間」有何變化？人文學科正面臨哪些挑戰？我們應該如何理解和詮釋在生命、生活和生態中人存在的意義？這些「存在」是否可被呈現，以何種狀態呈現？當下，這些緊迫的問題都急需作為人文學者的我們的回應。作為自從疫情以來第一次全面線下舉行的年會，本屆中國文學與比較文學雙年會，誠邀諸位人文學者共同反思這些日益加劇的轉變如何撼動了以人類為中心的知識結構，型塑了人文主義傳統下的創造，以及重置了人在世界上的位置。當此一個新的時代開始，後人類已經到來，非人的境遇依然處處可見，反人文主義襲入政治文化，我們面對未知與不測——在完美的混沌中，讓我們再一次展望人類。
本次會議的主要任務是重新審視「人」在認識、倫理和審美層面的各類文學表現。我們邀請學者就以下（或其它）相關主題提交論文：傳統人文主義的重審、「人的文學」的運用或誤用、「人」的現代建構或解構、「人」在「物」的世界中的回歸或消失、人文傳統在在地方文化及語言環境中的研究方法、「人類世」及其不足、以及「人」在各類文學表現形式中的擴展與變異——包括詩歌、戲劇、小說；經典、宗教文本和現代文學；大眾文化、類型小說和影視作品；媒介、社交媒體、遊戲和元宇宙等等。我們歡迎有關華語文學領域的各種研究，尤為關注有關人/非人/後人類的理論探索、歷史研究和文化分析。
本屆大會鼓勵研究者對上述主題做出自己的新思考。我們期待一次自由的交流，讓我們可以更深入地理解何為「人」。
Conference information:
The official languages of the conference are Chinese and English. We welcome conference participants from all over the world. We accept proposals for organized panels and individual papers in English or Chinese. Organized panels can consist of three or four papers, with a coherent theme. Each panel should have a chair or/and a discussant. The chair and discussant can be the same person. Abstracts for individual papers and panel descriptions should be under 300 English words or 250 Chinese characters. When you submit abstracts, please make sure to include your full name, institutional affiliation, position, and your email address. No individual may submit more than one abstract, or be part of more than one panel.
會議參加者須知：
會議官方語言是中文和英文。我們歡迎來自世界各地的學者參與此次會議。我們接受用中文或英文提交的單篇論文或提前組織的論文小組。每篇論文的摘要，或每個論文小組的計劃書，不超過300個英文單詞或250個中文字。每組可以由三或四篇論文組成，需有一位主持人或評議人（主持人和評議人可以是同一個人）。提交摘要時，請附上全名、所在學術機構、職位/職稱、和電子郵件地址。任何人不得提交超過一篇摘要，或參與超過一個小組。
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2023
To submit a paper or panel proposal, please email to [email protected]
Acceptance Letters will be sent by January 31, 2024
申請截止日期：2023年12月31日
請將論文摘要或小組摘要郵寄到 [email protected]
本屆會議將在2024年1月31日發出接受函
Contact persons:
Mingwei Song, ACCL President ([email protected])
Jizhou Jannis Chen, ACCL Communication Officer ([email protected])
Jianmei Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology contact ([email protected])
會議聯絡人：
宋明煒，ACCL會長([email protected])
劉劍梅，香港科技大學合辦人 ([email protected])
陳濟舟，會務聯絡人 ([email protected])