2019 Faculty Program Program expand_more 2026 Program Overview Seminars Seminars expand_more June 29 - July 9 July 13 - July 23 Plenary lectures Colloquia Colloquia expand_more Balzan Colloquium Institute Format Institute Format expand_more Focus: Seminars Discuss: Colloquia Think: Plenary Lectures Past Sessions Past Sessions expand_more 2025 Harvard 2025 Harvard expand_more Seminars Seminars expand_more June 30 – July 10 July 14 – 24 Plenary lecture 2024 University of Cyprus 2024 University of Cyprus expand_more 2024 Seminars 2024 Seminars expand_more July 8-18 July 22- August 1 Plenary lectures 2023 Harvard 2023 Harvard expand_more 2023 Seminars 2023 Seminars expand_more July 5-13 July 17-27 Plenary lectures 2022 Johannes Gutenberg U 2022 Johannes Gutenberg U expand_more 2022 Faculty July 4-14 July 18-28 Guest lectures 2021 Online Session 2021 Online Session expand_more June 28 - July 8 July 12-22 Guest lectures 2020 Online Session 2020 Online Session expand_more July 6-16 July 20-30 Guest lectures 2019 Harvard 2019 Harvard expand_more 2019 Faculty July 1-11 July 15-25 Guest lectures 2018 University of Tokyo 2018 University of Tokyo expand_more Seminars Seminars expand_more July 2-12 July 16-26 Plenary Lectures Videos Photo Gallery 2017 University of Copenhagen 2017 University of Copenhagen expand_more Seminars Seminars expand_more July 3-13 July 17-26 Guest Lecturers Photo Gallery 2016 Harvard 2016 Harvard expand_more Seminars Seminars expand_more June 20 - 30 July 4 -14 Lectures Keynote Speaker Keynote & Plenary Lectures Videos Photo Gallery 2015 University of Lisbon 2015 University of Lisbon expand_more Seminars Seminars expand_more June 22 - July 2 July 6 - 16 Guest Lecturers Photo Gallery 2014 City University of Hong Kong 2014 City University of Hong Kong expand_more Seminars and Seminar Leaders June 23-July 3 July 7-17 Photo Gallery 2013 Harvard 2013 Harvard expand_more 2013 Seminars 2013 Guest Lectures Photo Gallery 2012 Istanbul 2012 Istanbul expand_more 2012 Seminars 2012 Guest Lectures Photo Gallery 2011 Beijing 2011 Beijing expand_more 2011 Seminars 2011 Guest Lectures Photo Gallery Homi Bhabha Keynote Speaker Thomas Claviez "Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature" Verena Conley "Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms" Robert Coover Guest lecturer David Damrosch "Globalization and Its Discontents" Stefano Evangelista "Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism" Ursula Heise "Science Fiction and the Imagination of Planetary Futures" Héctor Hoyos "World Literature between Historical and New Materialism" Dominique Jullien "Jorge Luis Borges and/as World Literature" B. Venkat Mani "Tales of Unsettlement: Refugees and / in World Literature" Katharina Piechocki “Rethinking World Literature through Cartography and the Spatial Turn” Gisèle Sapiro "How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?" Mariano Siskind "About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory" Delia Ungureanu "Localizing Time in World Literature and World Cinema" Lawrence Venuti "Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs. Hermeneutic Models" Rebecca Walkowitz "Close Reading and World Literature"
