Year: 2020

The work of the Research Committee on Comparative African Literatures is starting! A Research Committee on Comparative African Studies / Literary Histories of Africa was approved in principle by the AILC-ICLA Executive Council in 2018, on the initiative of William Spurlin and Márcio Seligmann-Silva, to rectify a major gap in the AILC-ICLA research focus. The […]

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Due to the disruption caused by Covid-19, the CLAM 2020 conference, initially planned for 1-3 July 2020, has been postponed to 14-16 January 2021. More information can be found on the page of the Research Committee on Literature, Arts & Media .

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We are delighted to announce that the XXIII International Congress of the AILC-ICLA will take place in Tblisi, Georgia, from 25 to 30 July 2022. See https://icla2022-tbilisi.ge/ . The theme will be: “Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins”. The Congress will be hosted by the Georgian Comparative Literature Association (GCLA), the […]

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