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> >From: <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: CFP: Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations (11/15/06; >ACLA, 4/19/07-4/22/07) > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >The LYRICA SOCIETY FOR WORD-MUSIC RELATIONS is pleased to announce its=20 >inaugural >presentations at the annual convention of the American Comparative Literatur= >e >Association (www.acla.org). The conference will be held in Puebla, Mexico, >April 19-22, 2007, and will be devoted to the broad theme =E2=80=9CTrans, Pa= >n, Inter: >Cultures in Contact.=E2=80=9D Accordingly, papers on the >literatures, music=20= >and >cultures of the Hispanic Americas, and on transatlantic and transpacific >perspectives are strongly encouraged. > >The conference=E2=80=99s theme foregrounds what is basic to Comparative Lite= >rature, >Musicology and Ethnomusicology as disciplines: analysis of relations between >and among composers, authors, performance practices, works, languages, >traditions, cultures, nations, continents, and histories, and exploration of >the methods and mechanisms by which those relations create meaning. Topics=20 >and >theories involving points of cultural contact and crossings remain >critical=20= >to >the conference=E2=80=99s focus. > >Proposals, no longer than 250 words in length, may be submitted in either >English or Spanish should be submitted electronically by November 15th to: >[log in to unmask], with ACLA in the subject line. > >For further information, please refer to the ACLA website and to the followi= >ng >link therefrom: > >http://acla2007.complit.ucla.edu/ > >Please see travel information and hotel options in Puebla; we ask that you=20 >make >your hotel reservations before January 15th, 2007, to assure the group rate. > >Participating scholars should be or become bona fide members of the Lyrica >Society for Word-Music Relations. > >We look forward to hearing from you and remain, > >Cordially, > >THE LYRICA SOCIETY FOR WORD-MUSIC RELATIONS > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html