The Institute for World Literature

10/07/2022

October 7, 2022 The 13th IWL returns to its headquarters at Harvard from July 5 through July 27, 2023. We've assembled a great group that includes Homi Bhabha (Harvard), David Damrosch (Harvard), Jérôme David (U of Geneva), Simon Gikandi (Princeton), Emily Greenwood (Harvard), B. Venkat Mani (U of...

02/11/2021

https://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-world-literature-and-pandemic-times?fbclid=IwAR2YVZMbAFGm4vI5dlRcuh24-H5aeuWDfuUo64Ay4iVI0t2r2IS_Fq2STKg

February 11, 2021 Essays are invited for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of World Literature on the theme of World Literature in and for Pandemic Times. Essays can discuss works that are set in plagues or epidemics (whether Covid-19 or earlier epidemics, real or fictional), or can discuss...

11/02/2020

The application for the 11th Institute for World Literature that meets at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, between June 28 and July 23, 2021 is now open through February 1, 2021. As of now, we are planning for an in-person session with a hundred participants, and we are looking into the possibility to organize a hybrid session. We’ve assembled an excellent group of faculty to conduct the seminars and give guest lectures, including Mita Banerjee, Helena Buescu, Stefano Evangelista, Alfred Hornung, Françoise Král, Dieter Lamping, Venkat Mani, Natalie Melas, Galin Tihanov, and Dubravka Ugrešić to name just a few. In March, depending on the global situation of the pandemic, we will make the final decision whether we can organize a hybrid session or if we have to meet again only online. Until then, we look forward to your application!

05/10/2020

Follow David Damrosch's new book project "Around the World in 80 Books" also on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Around-the-World-in-80-Books-107866580925301/?modal=admin_todo_tour

A book project by David Damrosch

05/10/2020

Around the World in 80 Books

From May 11 through August 31, Covid-sequestered lovers of literature can join Harvard’s David Damrosch in a world journey through world literature, five books per week for sixteen weeks. He’ll be exploring the ways in which literature enters the world, and the world enters literature, taking up a set of works each week associated with a memorable locale. The project’s website features a blog on each day’s book, together with ideas and resources for further reading. Join the journey at:

08/29/2019

Homi Bhabha's keynote at IWL 2019, "Going Full Animal: Migration and Tribal Nationalism" is now available online and also on the IWL website (www.iwl.fas.harvard.edu):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIb3RqRMMIs&feature=youtu.be

"Going Full Animal: Migration and Tribal Nationalism"

08/22/2019

David Damrosch’s literary global reach

09/30/2018

Huge loss for the field of world literature: Pascale Casanova dies at 59.. Gisèle Sapiro signs the obituary on the IWL website.

September 30, 2018 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 field of world literature. Bas...

08/11/2016

Homi Bhabha's Keynote Lecture, and David Damrosch's and Gisèle Sapiro's plenary talks are now available on video. Don't miss Homi Bhabha's discussion of redefining the body and rewriting history through a new concept inspired by Benjamin's smallness: "the diurnal," in "The Internal Emigrant: or, Who is at Home in the Humanities?"; David Damrosch's “What Isn’t World Literature? Problems of Language, Context, and Politics," and Gisèle Sapiro's, “Authorship in Transnational Perspective: World Literature in the Making.”

http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/news/2016-iwl-harvard-homi-bhabhas-keynote-lecture-and-david-damroschs-and-gis%C3%A8le-sapiros

06/07/2016

Homi Bhabha's keynote lecture "The Internal Emigrant: or, Who Is at Home in the Humanities?" and the other IWL lectures by David Damrosch, Gisèle Sapiro, Mariano Siskind, and Rebecca Walkowitz, as well as the IWL panels on publishing and the job market are free and open to the public.

For a complete schedule of these events, as well as the lecture titles, please check out the IWL website:

http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/lectures
http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/news/2016-iwl-lectures-open-public

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