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 The Institute for World Literature is a four-week program, taking place in a different academic center of world literature each year. The Institute has three major components:

- **Seminars**, meeting four afternoons weekly, led by our Institute faculty; participants take one seminar during the first two weeks of the program and a second seminar for the second two weeks.
- **Colloquia,** meeting in small groups one morning each week, in which the session’s participants will present a paper related to one of the overarching, general framings of World Literature.
- **Plenary lectures** by the IWL faculty and distinguished guest lecturers, surveying the history and fundamental concepts of the field, and presenting new directions in comparative and world literary studies.

 **Please note that both the seminars and colloquia are REQUIRED components of the IWL program.**

 With participants coming from about three dozen countries, all events at the Institute take place in English.