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2017 University of Copenhagen

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The Institute held its seventh summer school session from July 3 through July 26, 2017, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in joint partnership with Aarhus University. Our four-week program included a total of twelve two-week seminars taught by...

Seminars

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July 3-13 Alexander Beecroft, University of South Carolina: "Literary Worlds Outside the Modern" David Damrosch, Harvard University: "Globalization and Its Discontents" Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University: "Literary Form and the Global South" Dominique...

July 3-13

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Alexander Beecroft, "Literary Worlds Outside the Modern" The theory and practice of world literature is often focused around modernity, whether directly through a focus on forms of circulation and influence which have operated in modern times, or...

July 17-26

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Hendrik Birus, "Debating World Literature" The course offers an introduction to the concept of world literature as a key term of Comparative Literature as well as Cultural Studies. During the 19th and 20th century it was nearly exclusively a ‘European...

Plenary Lectures Videos

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The World of World Literature: Cheah and Damrosch (2018) Yoko Tawada, “A Dream of Multilingual Poetry” (2018) Young Japanese Writers (2018)

Institute Format

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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...

Focus: Seminars

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At the center of our program are seminars led by prominent scholars of world literature, giving participants the opportunity to explore and discuss primary texts of world literature within the framework of theoretical and critical readings. Each seminar...

Think: Plenary Lectures

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A primary goal of the IWL is to provide participants with a grounding in the core questions and skills that tie together the breadth of scholarship and pedagogy on world literature. To this end, a main component will be weekly lectures in which Institute...

Expand: Guest Lectures

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Two or three times per session, plenary lectures will be given by distinguished visiting scholars or writers, discussing their recent and current work. Past guest lecturers have included Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Orhan Pamuk, Homi Bhabha, Emily Apter...