BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION

Culture and Quarantine


The British Comparative Literature Association, in the light of the unprecedented changes that the world is undergoing, and affirming that the discipline of comparative literature is predicated on the breaking down of the borders between literatures and cultures, invites reflections and engagement with what it is to live in the age of confinement.

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Culture & Quarantine

The British Comparative Literature Association, in the light of the unprecedented changes that the world is undergoing, and affirming that the discipline of comparative literature is predicated on the breaking down of the borders between literatures and cultures, invites reflections and engagement with what it is to live in the age of confinement.
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Autumn 2020

Online Roundtable and Panel Discussion: Randomness and Culture in the Age of Quarantine

More than a hundred comparatists from around the world participated in an online webinar hosted by the BCLA on September 16, 2020, featuring a series of talks by four keynote speakers, Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor Kylie Crane, Professor Maghiel Van Crevel and Professor Peter Arnds. This was followed by a round table discussion, with questions open to all the participants.

Videocasts of the talks on the day and other resources on the event's dedicated page are available by following the link below.

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Online: APGRD/BCLA Research Seminar Series: Receptions and Comparatisms, University of Oxford, Michaelmas Term, 2021 (11 Oct – 29 Nov)

28th September 2021 No Comments

The APGRD Research Seminar 2021, co-organised with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and with the support of the Oxford Comparative Criticism …

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Call for Contributions to the British Comparative Literature Association Web Archive, “Culture and Quarantine”

16th April 2020 No Comments

The British Comparative Literature Association would like to invite its Executive, International Corresponding members, members and followers of the website, together with affiliated members of …

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Online book launch – Dr Joanna Rzepa’s Modernism and Theology (20 October 2021 16:30 GMT)

15th October 2021 No Comments

Please join us for an online seminar to mark the launch of Modernism and Theology – a new monograph by Dr Joanna Rzepa (University of Essex). The …

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BCLA Postgraduate Coffee Morning (October 29, 2021 11:00 AM)

27th September 2021 No Comments

Are you a Postgraduate student or an Early Career Researcher interested in Comparative Literature? The British Comparative Literature Association Postgraduate Representatives warmly invite you to a Postgraduate Coffee Morning!

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BCLA Postgraduate Bursaries open for applications (deadline 30 November 2021)

22nd September 2021 No Comments

Download the BCLA Postgraduate Application Form 2021 The British Comparative Literature Association is pleased to announce its scheme of postgraduate bursaries is again open for applications. …

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Conference: Beyond Boundaries: Nationhood, Identity and Speculative Fiction, University of Ulster, 15 – 16 January 2022 (deadline 12 November 2021)

4th September 2021 No Comments

‘Culture is the context within which we need to situate the self, for it is only by virtue of the interpretations, orientations and values provided …

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