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In Memoriam: Prof. Aleksandra Vraneš

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In Memoriam - Prof. Aleksandra Vrane š - We are deeply saddened to inform you that our beloved friend and first institutional affiliate of IWL from Serbia, Professor Aleksandra Vraneš, a member of the University of Belgrade and the State University of...

The Institute for World Literature

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About us The Institute for World Literature (IWL) has been created to explore the study of literature in a globalizing world. As we enter the twenty-first century, our understanding of “world literature” has expanded beyond the classic canon of European...

Balzan Colloquium: 10 fully-funded places at IWL in 2025

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A generous award from the Balzan Foundation is giving IWL the opportunity to bring a group of participants from five regions not yet well represented among our affiliates: Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and South/Southeast Asia...

June 23-July 3

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Grounds for Comparison , David Damrosch As we widen the scope of literary studies beyond a national or regional focus, we need to consider freshly the grounds for discussing and comparing works that are not necessarily or primarily linked by relations of...

Major French literary critic Pascale Casanova dies at 59

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French literary critic Pascale Casanova died on September 29, 2018, at the age of 59. During the past ten years, she has been courageously fighting an incurable disease while publishing two fresh books. Her work represents a major contribution to the...

July 8-18

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Ankhi Mukherjee, “What Is a Classic? The Aesthetics of Postcolonial and World Literature” “A classic is a work that comes before other classics; but those who have read other classics first immediately recognise its place in the genealogy of classics,”...

(Ne)MLA, ACLA & more

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MLA Modern Language Association Annual Convention Women and Emancipatory Narratives Across Media This in-person panel invites 250-word abstracts that examine women’s narratives, representations, and forms of agency within resistance movements across film...