Please find below the results of the 2024 competition. Many thanks to everyone who entered. The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School […]
All postgraduate members of the British Comparative Literature Association are invited to apply for the Glyn Hambrook Postgraduate Research Award, worth up to £250.00. This sum may be used by postgraduate students for any costs incurred for the purpose of research activities. These may include travel expenses, registration fees for conferences or seminars, enrolment for other
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the BCLA First Book Prize, which will recognise an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The BCLA First Book Prize 2025 will be awarded to a book published between 1st January 2021 and 31st December 2023. The prize of £500 will be presented at
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The rise of Symbolism at the end of the nineteenth century coincided with rapid developments in communication and transport technologies that facilitated the transnational movement of people, texts, images and art objects. Writers and artists linked to Symbolism were therefore able to profit from an increased global mobility: they incorporated forms and ideas from other
Please find below the winners of the 2023 John Dryden Translation Competition. With many thanks to everyone who entered! The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently
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Keynote speakersSeeta Chaganti, Professor of English, University of California, DavisMark Currie, Professor of Contemporary Literature, Queen Mary, University of LondonCarla Freccero, Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Funded byOxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, University of Oxford Organised byJoseph Hankinson, Career Development Lecturer in English, University
This conference proposes “divine disasters” as a new lens for examining the interrelationship between theology, ecology, and literature. We invite papers that consider how ideas of faith, religion, the divine or the sacred are challenged during ecological crises. Focusing on the Spaces/Places of such disasters, we invite enquiries into these distressed landscapes containing multitudinous emotions,
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Keynote Speaker: Professor Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh The ontological meanings of kinship have long been a central question in academia. From the notion of ‘relatedness’ (Carsten, 2000) to the idea of the ‘mutuality of being’ (Sahlins, 2013), the static blood-based structure of kinship has now been comprehensively dismantled. In today’s world, forms of kinship are
Space in Time is a forum for new work in the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. While space history is a vibrant field of study, extending across the humanities and social sciences, it often breaks down along familiar geographical, disciplinary, and period-based boundaries.
Register to attend (registration is free but it is required to receive the link to attend) The symposium will take place online. Keynote speaker: Jarred McGinnis, in conversation with Natasha Bell. Consult the full programme and the abstracts and biographies. The ongoing Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice Seminar Series at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London invites
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