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Delayed publication of the September 2020 Newsletter
With apologies to our readers: the publication of the Newsletter has been postponed from 1 to 15 September 2020 – a side-effect of the impact of Covid-19 on holiday plans….
Global Publishing Early-Career Conference, 4-6 June 2021
The Early-Career conference “Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility” will take place online on 4-6 June 2021. Organised by Princeton University’s Fung Global Fellows Program, the International Comparative Literature Association, and Princeton University Press, the conference joins theoretical issues addressed by scholars and editors with practical workshops in global […]
July Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA
The July 2020 Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA has been sent to our affiliated National Associations, with a request to disseminate to their members. AILC-ICLA NEWSLETTER July-juillet 2020 We continue to work on a system that will enable us to deliver the newsletters directly to individual members and plan to start a trial in the next weeks.
May 2020 Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA
The May 2020 Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA has been sent to our affiliated National Associations, with a request to disseminate to their members. AILC-ICLA NEWSLETTER May-mai 2020 We continue to work on a system that will enable us to deliver the newsletters directly to individual members (this is not easy as membership of the AILC-ICLA is for the largest […]
Launch of the Research Committee on Comparative African Literatures
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 […]
CLAM conference postponed to January 2021
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 .
Triennial Congress 2022!
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. 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 Ivane Javakhishvili […]
The 2019 issue of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is now available
The 2019 issue of Recherche littéraire/Literary Research, the AILC-ICLA’s journal, is now available! Download the pdf file for free from the journal’s page , or purchase a hard copy from the publisher’s website, Peter Lang .
Our Congress in Macau, two decisions and outcome of elections
The XXII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association took place at the University of Macau, from 29 July to 2 August 2019, despite a typhoon’s attempt to disrupt it. The Congress was preceded by the ICLA Executive Council Meeting and International Comparative Literature Forum, held at the University of Shenzhen and co-hosted by the […]
And the 2019 Anna Balakian Prize goes to….
A message from the judges of the 2019 Anna Balakian Prize: The judges of the Balakian Prize for 2019 are happy to announce a winner. The committee received several very fine submissions, and we would like to thank all those who sent entries. After a spirited discussion among the judges, Dr. Shuangyi Li’s book Proust, China […]