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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Comparative Critical Studies vol. 18.1 is out!

10th June 2021 No Comments

The latest issue of Comparative Critical Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the British Comparative Literature Association, is now available online: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/18/1 It …

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BCLA Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award now open (deadline 31 July 2021)

20th May 2021 No Comments

You are invited to apply for the Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award 2021 intended to offer postgraduate students assistance in the present situation caused by …

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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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Conference: Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, IMLR University of London, 2 – 4 December 2021 (Deadline 30 July 2021)

9th June 2021 No Comments

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,Kitty Fisher found it.Not a penny was there in itBut a ribbon round it. Keynote Speakers Jack Ashby (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge): …

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One-day Online Symposium: Lines of Inquiry: New Approaches to Poetry, University of York, 30 July 2021 (deadline 30 June)

4th June 2021 No Comments

This one-day symposium will showcase new scholarly approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry.  At a time when poetry is more visible than ever in digital …

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Online Conference: Science Fiction: Activism and Resistance, 9 – 11 September, 2021 (deadline 30 June)

3rd June 2021 No Comments

London Science Fiction Research Community (LSFRC) Keynote Speakers: Grace Dillon, Radha D’SouzaGuest Creators: Jeannette Ng, Rivers Solomon, Neon Yang contact email: lsfrcmail@gmail.com In an age when …

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BAMS Festival of Modernism, June-July 2021

20th May 2021 No Comments

This was meant to be a conference year.  However, as the conditions aren’t yet right for international travel and face-to-face meetings of large groups of …

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