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Item Open Access Comparative Literature Off-Kilter(2025) Mathieu-Lessard, JeannePour son premier colloque à l’extérieur du Congrès de la fédération des sciences humaines, l’Association canadienne de littérature comparée (ACLC-CCLA) propose de penser le décalage, qu’il soit institutionnel, temporel ou spatial, que permet le comparatisme. In 2025, we are bringing our annual Canadian Comparative Literature Association to Trent University, in PeterboroughNogojiwanong, dedicating three days to sharing our work and our thoughts on our often off-kilter positionality in (and out of) academia. The precarious balancing act of comparison entails a constant movement on the part of the researcher/teacher/creator, a movement that does not settle well within the institutional structures of the article, the grant proposal, the course, the conference. This event will be an opportunity to revel in the cracks, the bugs, une occasion de rajouter du sable dans l’engrenage ; non seulement en pointant les failles mais surtout en mettant en œuvre les décalages, accrochages, jeux et autres bogues. Dans la lignée du féminiSpunk conçu par Aventin comme « une extermination des normes et des pouvoirs […] qui s’offre telle une envie contagieuse – une invitation totale et permanente au plus jouissif des fuck off » (Aventin 25)1 et de l’éloge du bug de Vitali-Rosati,2 nous proposons de penser le comparatisme comme ce qui détourne le « bon fonctionnement » de la machine (académique; capitaliste), and to conceive this event as a playground on which marginal practices, thoughts, works and formats can form revolutionary friendshipItem Open Access Régénérer nos avenirs while sustaining gaps(2024) Mathieu-Lessard, JeanneThinking through what sustainability signifies for our collective social bodies and languages means, more than ever, being attentive to the gaps opened up by the concept. As comparatists working across and between languages, we are confronted with its untranslatability. Following our 2020 manifesto, Knowledge is a commons, this conference will think through what our comparatist approach can bring to the creation of more sustainable thinking, teaching, and research practices. How does our comparative methodology approach sustainability in a world contemplating its own end? How does our relationship to the canon influence what we keep (and don’t keep) of cultural productions that cohabitate and compete on the inequitable playing field of human history?Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access