Applications for participation grants to take part in the AILC-ICLA Congress in Seoul, 28 July – 1 August 2025, are now open to scholars whose paper proposals have been accepted. Applications can be made for one of the following: a) Fee waiver (early registration fee amounts: $62 student or $125 regular)b) […]
International Comparative Literature Association
Following the First Book Subvention Award of Isabel C. Gómez’s Cannibal Translation: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America (2023) at the 2022 edition of the Prize, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023/4 editions of the Prize: Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia’s Figures of Radical Absence Blanks and Voids in Theory, Literature, and the Arts (2023). Dr. Irimia’s book proposes the concept of ‘radical absence’ to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and […]
The ICLA welcomes proposals for new Research Committees. Research Committees are groups of researchers that explore particular research questions around a theme, an issue or a subject area. Applications that address key research questions in comparative literature today and/or help fill gaps in the areas covered by existing committees, such as: race and ethnicity studies, […]
The ECARE Committee of the AILC-ICLA is pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the 2025 edition of its Best Translation Prize which supports and recognises the work of early career researchers (ECRs). This triannual prize awards an outstanding translation of scholarly work pertinent to the wide field of comparative literary studies between any two languages. […]