# IWL Returns to Harvard in 2016 September 17, 2015 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) 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 literature offered by some of the leading names in world literary studies today: Paul Bandia, Concordia University Homi Bhabha, Harvard University Margaret Cohen, Stanford University David Damrosch, Harvard University Paul Giles, University of Sydney Eric Hayot, Pennsylvania State University Lital Levy, Princeton University Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven Mitsuyoshi Numano, Tokyo University Bruce Robbins, Columbia University Gisèle Sapiro, EHESS and CNRS Mariano Siskind, Harvard University Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin Jing Tsu, Yale University Rebecca Walkowitz, Rutgers University Check out our [2016 flyer](/file_url/426) and feel free to share it with your friends and home institution. If you want to know more about what the IWL experience is all about, check our our short video with our 2015 participants' opinions and slideshow of the Lisbon highlights on our [Homepage](/). Our application period runs from November 1, 2015 through February 1, 2016. To apply online, go to: --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf harvard\_flyer\_2016.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6391/files/iwl/files/harvard_flyer_2016.pdf) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)