[AMS-announce] CFP: Lyrica Society at the ACLA meeting, Harvard University, Mar 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is pleased to announce its 2009
Seminar at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature
Association (www.acla.org), to be hosted by Harvard University next 26-29
March.

The conference's broad general theme is "Global Languages, Local Cultures" and
Lyrica's Seminar is entitled "Revival and Surival: Opera, Song, Regionalism,
Pluralism, Nationalism". Please check our posting among the many fascinating
seminars proposed by our colleagues in Comparative Litrature:

http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=46

The ACLA's Seminars extend over three days and explore its chosen theme through
a daily, two-to-three-hour session.  A maximum of twelve papers will be
accepted and each session will take the form of a round-table discussion where
debates are encouraged.  Lecture-recitals will also be considered. If submitted
for publication in "Ars Lyrica", papers will be subject to the journal's
peer-review process.

Interested musicologists and ethnomusicologists, scholars of literature and
comparative literature should submit an abstract not to exceed 250 words to:
lyricasociety at aol.com with ACLA in the subject line.  Notification of
acceptance: January 31, 20009.

Lyrica's website (www.lyricasociety.org) will soon undergo important structural
changes and additions, and we ask that you kindly consult it regularly for
updates to our various conference participations (AMS, MLA, ACLA, etc.), for
news of our biennial essay competition as well as updates on "Ars Lyrica".  Our
Newsletters are accessible from the website.

Our thanks are extended to the many new members who joined in 2008, and to our
loyal old guard whose generosity enables the Society to flourish.