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The ECARE Committee of the AILC-ICLA is pleased to announce the Call for Application to the 2023 edition of its First Book Subvention Prize that supports and recognises the work of early career researchers (ECRs). This annual award provides funding for a subvention for an early-career scholar’s first book to be published as a monograph, […]

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The result of the elections of the officers and members of the Executive Council for the 2022-2025 term are (full details will be published on the Executive Council page, which will be updated soon): PRESIDENT Lucia Boldrini – Goldsmiths, University of London, UK VICE-PRESIDENTS Anne Tomiche – Univ. de Paris, France (first Vice-President)Noriko Hiraishi – Univ. of […]

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As previously announced, the ICLA General assembly will take place on 28 July 2022. Please find below: 1) a message from the AILC-ICLA President, Sandra Bermann; 2) the Agenda for the General Assembly; and 3) the link to take part via Zoom if you are not able to attend in person.  1. A message from […]

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For all information on the 2022 elections of the Executive Council of the AILC-ICLA, including a list of candidates with short biographies and a proposed amendment to the Statutes, please visit  2022 Elections: Information .

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The election of the new officers of the AILC-ICLA for the term 2022-25 will open soon. The President, 4 Vice Presidents, 2 Secretaries, 3 Treasurers and 16 members of the Executive Council will be elected (with two more members of the Executive Council selected from the list of non-elected candidates, as described in article IV […]

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The triennial General Assembly of the Association will take place on 28 July 2022 at 17:00 Tbilisi time (15:00 Paris, 13:00 Dakar, 10:00 São Paulo, 09:00 New York, 22:00 Tokyo, 21:00 Beijing, 18:00 New Delhi). All members are warmly invited to attend.  The General Assembly is the occasion when the outgoing Executive Council reports on the activities […]

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We are delighted to announce that the Balakian Prize 2022 has been awarded to May Hawas’s Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public.  Hawas’s book is a critical work of remarkable originality that is consistently analytical and argumentative in its presentation of ideas, with a strong comparative perspective. It examines a corpus of novels and travelogues […]

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Information about the election of the new officers of the AILC-ICLA (the President, 4 Vice Presidents, 2 Secretaries, 3 Treasurers) and of the other members of the Executive Council (18 members), is now published. From 2022, elections will be held online. A list of candidates has been selected by the Nominating Committee . Members can also propose additional candidates. All information […]

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The XXIII International Congress of the AILC-ICLA, “Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins”, will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 24 to 29 July 2022. The Congress will be held in a hybrid form (combination of online and in person) unless and until further notice required by geo-political or hygienic […]

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