Author: Lucia
In memoriam: Steven Sondrup (1944-2020)
Gerald Gillespie remembers Steven Sondrup, former President of the ICLA Colleagues visiting the ever convivial Steven Sondrup – if he were not away on a guest stint or at a congress – would find him either busy at Brigham Young University in Provo or at home further to the north in old Salt Lake […]
November Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA
The November 2020 Newsletter of the AILC-ICLA has been sent to our affiliated National Associations, with a request to disseminate to their members. It is also published on our Recent Newsletters page
Report from the Executive Council, summer 2020
The Executive Council meeting planned for summer 2020 had to be rescheduled to January 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, some more urgent business was discussed via email. In particular, the following decisions were taken: To continue funding the open access publication of the Association’s journal, Recherche Littéraire / Literary Research; To extend the funding […]
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. 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 […]