CFP: International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

The XXII Congress of Association Internationale de Littérature Compararée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) will be held at University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, from the 29th July to the 2nd August 2019. The main theme of the 2019 Congress will be: Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature

with the following sub-themes:

1. Conversations across Differences

2. Diverse Languages of Comparison

3. Literary, Cultural, and Temporal (Un)Translatability

4. The Multiple Histories of Comparative Literature

5. Canons, Genres, and Media

6. Interdisciplinarity in Comparative Literature

7. Theorizing the Literary across Cultures

8. World Literature and China

9. Global Humanities from an Eastern Perspective

10. Internationalization of Chinese Literary Studies

11. Immigrant Literature

12. Circulation of Information in East Asia: Journalism, Fiction, and Electronic Textuality

13. The “Sinophone” as a Counterdiscourse

14. Memoir Literature in East Asia in the Modern Period

15. The Obsession With International Literary Prizes: For Whom Is the Reward Important?