The Participation Grants Committee will announce the results of the selection process on April 4th, before 2:00 pm (KST). Thanks to a generous donation, the PG fund has increased to $4,000, allowing the ICLA to provide additional awards. We welcome further donations to support early-career scholars and those facing financial challenges in attending the Congress. […]

Proposals for New AILC-ICLA Research Committees. Deadline: 31 March 2025.  More information for this call can be found at:  https://www.ailc-icla.org/deadline-for-proposals-of-new-ailc-icla-research-committees-31-march-2025/ Applications to the new AILC-ICLA Member Association Matching Grants for the organisation of Early Career events. Deadline: 15 April 2025. More information can be found at:  https://www.ailc-icla.org/ailc-icla-matching-grants-for-the-organisation-of-early-career-events-by-member-associations/ Applications to the 2025 ICLA First Book Subvention Prize. Deadline: […]

The Association internationale de littérature comparée/International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA) is inviting applications for the position of Editor of Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research (ISSN 0849-0570), its annual peer-reviewed journal. An Open Access journal published by Peter Lang, RL/LR generally appears in December of each year. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To […]

The AILC-ICLA Executive Council has agreed to provide funds to its member Associations in good standing, in order to support the organisation of early career events (for example: graduate conferences, training events, and other research-oriented events aimed at and organised by, or with the collaboration of, early career researchers**). This support will take the form […]

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, […]