Non-university research organisations

Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

Fondée en 1955, l’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (AILC) offre un lieu d’accueil à tous les comparatistes dans le monde et encourage les échanges et la coopération entre les comparatistes, tant à un niveau individuel que par l’intermédiaire de la collaboration avec diverses associations nationales de littérature comparée. Dans ce but, l’Association promeut les études littéraires au-delà des frontières de langues et des traditions littéraires nationales, entre les cultures et les régions du monde, entre les disciplines et les orientations théoriques, et à travers les genres, les périodes historiques et les media. Sa vision large de la recherche comparatiste s’étend à l’étude de sites de la différence comme la race, le genre, la sexualité, la classe sociale, l’ethnicité et la religion, à la fois dans les textes et dans l’univers quotidien.

L’Association vise à être inclusive et est ouverte à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la littérature comparée, y compris les écrivains et les artistes. Elle encourage la participation d’étudiants de master et doctorat et de jeunes chercheurs en début de carrière.

L’Association organise un Congrès mondial tous les trois ans. Elle supervise et apporte son soutien à des comités de recherche qui reflètent les intérêts actuels des membres et qui se réunissent plus régulièrement pour mettre en œuvre des programmes conduisant à des publications dans les journaux et sous forme de livres. Le journal annuel de l’Association, Recherche littéraire / Literary Research regroupe des essais et propose des comptes rendus d’un grand nombre de travaux scientifiques dans le domaine.


Founded in 1955, the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) offers a home to all comparatists in the world and encourages exchange and cooperation among comparatists, both individually and through the collaboration of various national comparative literature associations. To that end the Association promotes literary studies beyond the boundaries of languages and national literary traditions, between cultures and world regions, among disciplines and theoretical orientations, and across genres, historical periods, and media. Its broad view of comparative research extends to the study of sites of difference such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and religion in both texts and the everyday world.

The Association aims to be inclusive and is open to anyone with an academic interest in comparative literature, including writers and artists. It welcomes the participation of graduate students and early-career scholars.

The Association organizes a world congress every three years. It also oversees and supports research committees that reflect the membership’s current interests and meet more regularly to pursue agenda leading to publications in journals and books. The Association’s annual journal Recherche littéraire / Literary Research contains essays and reviews a wide range of scholarship in the field.

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Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC) / International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

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Calls for papers

CFP: Forms, Genres, Media in Baroque and Neo-Baroque: Intermedial, comparative, and trans-historic, ICLA 2022 Group Session, Tbilisi (24-29 July 2022)

Events

Théories littéraires du hasard et de la contingence / Theorizing Chance. How does Literary Theory deal with Contingency; ICLA 2022: Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins, XXIII Congress of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) at TSU in Tbilisi (Georgia); Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature (22nd General Congress of ICLA)

Projects and research

ICLA Research Committee on Comparative African Studies / Literary Histories of Africa; ICLA Research Committee on South Asian Literatures and Cultures; ICLA Research Committee on Comparative History of East Asian Literatures; ICLA Research Committee on Literary History; ICLA Research Committee on Literature and Neuroscience; ICLA Research Committee "DreamCultures. Cultural and Literary History of the Dream"; ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory; ICLA Research Committee "Comparative History of Literatures in European Language Series (CHLEL)"; ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative; ICLA Research Committee on Literature, Arts & Media (CLAM); ICLA Research Committee on Comparative Gender Studies; ICLA Research Committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature; ICLA Research Committee on Scriptural Reasoning and Comparative Studies; ICLA Research Committee on Translation Studies
Date of publication: 12.12.2018
Last edited: 12.06.2019