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Two of our 2017 participants at the University of Copenhagen, Miriam Strieder (German Department) and Dr. Stella Lange (Romance Studies) from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative report on our seventh summer session. You can check it out...

Two of our 2016 participants at Harvard, Laura Fuchs-Eisner, Doctoral candidate, Romance studies and ÖAW DOC-Fellow, and Monika Raič, Doctoral candidate, Comparative Literature from the University of Innsbruck wrote a very informative account on our sixth...

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 sixth Institute for World Literature meets between June 20 -- July 14, 2016 at Harvard. The plenary lectures by our IWL faculty, the Keynote Lecture by Homi Bhabha, as well as the panel sessions are open to the public: Keynote Lecture, Harvard...

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: http://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten...

http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-world-literature As world literature becomes increasingly important in the Humanities curriculum and the academia in a globalizing world, the Journal of World Literature aims at bringing together scholars all...

Following our inaugural sessions in Beijing (2011), Istanbul (2012), Harvard (2013), Hong Kong (2014), and Lisbon (2015), the Institute invites you once again at Harvard, for a four-week session of seminars and lectures on the theory and practice of world...

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...

H éc tor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature at Stanford University has recently published his book Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia UP, 2015), whose focus on world literature crystallized during H éctor's month...

Check out Professor Krishan Kumar's article "The Return of Arnold Toynbee" in the Times Lite rary 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...