Homi Bhabha's Keynote Lecture, and David Damrosch's and Gisèle Sapiro's plenary talks are now available on video here. Don't miss Homi Bhabha's discussion of redefining the body and rewriting history through a new concept inspired by Benjamin's smallness: "the diurnal," in "The Internal Emigrant: or, Who is at Home in the Humanities?"; David Damrosch's “What Isn’t World Literature? Problems of Language, Context, and Politics," and Gisèle Sapiro's, “Authorship in Transnational Read more about 2016 IWL, Harvard: Homi Bhabha's Keynote Lecture, and David Damrosch's and Gisèle Sapiro's Plenary Talks Now on Video!

Two of our 2015 participants in Lisbon, Carmer Rainer, PhD candidate, and Dr. Katharina Walter from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative account on our Lisbon session. You can check it out here:

Ana Luísa Amaral, poet and professor of literature at the University of Porto, presented her IWL guest lecture “Tunes, and Other Matters (like Potatoes): Talking about Poetry and Life” on June 29th, at the University of Lisbon as part of our fifth summer session. An amazing and moving multilingual journey into her personal and intellectual past, an insight into her current projects, and a glimpse at her future poetic adventures. 

Check out Ana Luísa Amaral's full IWL lecture in PDF, as well as an interview with her published in the Italian magazine Poesia Read more about Ana Luísa Amaral's Guest Lecture at 2015 IWL, University of Lisbon

Check out Professor Krishan Kumar's article "The Return of Arnold Toynbee" in the Times Literary Supplement based on the lecture he gave this summer at the 2014 IWL in Hong Kong, "Civilization as a Concept for Global Analysis: The Example of Arnold Toynbee."