<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span>The Department of Comparative 
Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will host their 
20th Annual CLIFF Conference in <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">March 10-12, 2016</span></span>.</span><span><br></span></font></span><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span><br></span></font></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Appetites: Discourses of Consumption</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">20</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">th</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> Annual CLIFF Conference</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">March 10-12, 2016</span></span></span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Department of Comparative Literature</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">University of Michigan, Ann Arbor</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Keynote: “A Tale of Deliveries”</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Rey Chow, Duke University</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:00pm</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Call for Papers</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Submission Deadline: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">Dec 1, 2015</span></span>.</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Over the past twenty years, the rise of food studies has brought the culinary to the attention of academics, particularly among social scientists and in departments of cultural studies. This brings new valence to widely circulated notions of cultural and material consumption and their affective dimensions (e.g. desires, appetites). Building on foundational work by scholars including Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes, researchers have added food to the ever-growing list of cultural products deserving of inquiry. This relatively new concern with food opens up the possibility of thinking consumption and appetites in broader terms. How do we consume bodies, images, and cultures? How can the humanities engage with food studies? Is it possible to think the consumption of food alongside other forms of consumption?</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This conference, aimed at graduate students in all disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, is concerned with appetite and consumption in all their varied aspects. We welcome proposals that address:</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Food</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sex and the body</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Historical and new materialisms</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Visual culture and new media</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Travel and tourism</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Translation and the circulation of culture</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Commodities and commodification</span></font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Orality and language</span></font></span></p></li></ul><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Graduate students may submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">December 1, 2015</span></span> via email to </span><a href="mailto:cliffumich2016@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">cliffumich2016@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. Partial reimbursements will be available to assist with the cost of international travel.</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></font></span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Artemis Leontis<br></span></font></span><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Professor of Modern Greek, Department of Classical Studies</span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">University of Michigan<br></span></font></span></div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font size="4">Arts & Humanities Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies</font></span><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">email:  <a href="mailto:aleontis@umich.edu" target="_blank">aleontis@umich.edu</a><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">telephone: 734-615-3290<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">office address:  2160 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street Ann Arbor MI 48109<br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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