Archives of the Planetary, Ecologies of the Global South (ACLA 2024, Montreal)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference
Palais des congrès, Montreal, March 14-17, 2024
Co-organizers: Christine Xiong (Stanford) and Fiana Kawane (University of British Columbia)
Édouard Glissant, in Poetics of Relation (1990), famously emphasizes that “Cultures develop in a single planetary space but to different ‘times.’ It would be impossible to determine either a real chronological order or an unquestionable hierarchical order for these times.”