Past Conference Archive
Previous Comparative Literature Conferences – 1966 to present
2020 – 2024
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
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58th 57th 56th 55th
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Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective On Digital Pasts and Futures: New Perspectives in Literature, Technoculture, and Media Culture Jamming and the Art of Subversion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Outliers and Outcasts in Literature, Music and Visual Arts
|
Christopher Goffard Cassius Adair Jacques Servin Theri Pickens
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2024 2023 2022 2021
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2015 – 2019
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
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54th 53rd 52nd |
Valerie Orlando Edwin Hill Thuy Vo Dang |
2019 2018 2017 |
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51st 50th |
Mind, Body, Behavior: Health, Illness, and Representation Tradition and Innovation: Comparative Literature in the 21st Century |
Kathleen Komar |
2016 2015 |
2010 – 2014
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49th | Connections and Intersections: Interdisciplinarity Within and Among Disciplines | Ellen Peel, Marina Antic | 2014 |
| 48th | Popular Culture(s) Special Event Screening: “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman” |
Hillary Chute | 2013 |
| 47th | Drawing the Line(s): Censorship & Cultural Practices B-Word Project Speaker: Azar Nafisi |
Ilan Stavans | 2012 |
| 46th | The Comic Spirit in the Modern Age | Judy Carter, Ray Lacoste | 2011 |
| 45th | Visual Culture & Global Practices | W. J. T. Mitchell | 2010 |
2000 – 2009
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44th | Johnny Got His Pen: Artists Involvement in Peace & War | Milcho Manchevski | 2009 |
| 43rd | Arrivals and Departures(Host of Annual American Comparative Literature Association Conference conference website ) |
Marjorie Perloff | 2008 |
| 42nd | Women, Sexuality & Early Modern Studies | Laurie Finke, Stacey Schlau | 2007 |
| 41st | Ancient and Modern Narrative: Intersections, Interactions, and Interstices | Georgia Ladogianni, Stephen Orgel |
2006 |
| 40th | The Global Eighteenth Century | Margaret Higonnet | 2005 |
| 39th | Film, Ideology, and Culture | Andrew Horton | 2004 |
| 38th | Imagining Rome | Dean Abernathy | 2003 |
| 37th | Citizen of the World: Cosmopolitanism and Its Ancient Antecedents | Edward Said (scheduled) | 2002 |
| 36th | Dislocation of Culture: Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Theory | Trinh Minh Ha | 2001 |
| 35th | The Community in Literature | Graciela Limon | 2000 |
1990 – 1999
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34th | The Self in Literature | Marilyn Yalom | 1999 |
| 33rd | Madness and Literature | Richard Caldwell | 1998 |
| 32nd | The City on South American Literature | Djelal Kadir | 1997 |
| 31st | Love and Politics in Literary Perspective | Sandra Gilbert | 1996 |
| 30th | Interpretation of Culture: Images and Ideologies | O. R. Dathorne | 1995 |
| 29th | Transmission of Culture: Literature and the Liberal Arts | Ishmael Reed | 1994 |
| 28th | Food in the Arts and Literature | LA Times Food Critics | 1993 |
| 27th | Language, Literature, and the Politics of Education | Pareskevi Contos & Pasquale Verdicchio | 1992 |
| 26th | Penelope’s Web: The Self and Self Control | Mario Torelli & John Williams | 1991 |
| 25th | Music and Literature in Society | August Coppola & Archie Shepp | 1990 |
1980 – 1989
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24th | Eroticism and Censorship in Literature and Film | Maryse Condé and Françoise Pfaff | 1989 |
| 23rd | The Grotesque in Literature, Art, Music and Film | Frederick Burwick | 1988 |
| 22nd | Women in Film | Valerie Smith | 1987 |
| 21st | The Marginal, the Creative and the American Dream | Michael Ventura & Gerald Haslem | 1986 |
| 20th | Mythology and Creativity | Joseph Campbell | 1985 |
| 19th | The Fantastic: Celebrating the Imagination | Eric Rabkin & Leslie Fiedler | 1984 |
| 18th | The Comic Spirit | Max Apple & Hal Roach | 1983 |
| 17th | Visions of Peace: Peace and the Creative Arts | Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsburg, Peter Orlovsky & Gary Snyder |
1982 |
| 16th | Latin America Through Novel, Film, Music and Poetry | 1981 | |
| 15th | Shamanism: Death, Healing and Psychoanalysis | 1980 |
1966 – 1979
| No | Theme | Speaker(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14th | Psyche and Symbol | Joseph Campbell | 1979 |
| 13th | Current Trends in World Literature | 1978 | |
| 12th | Literature and Politics: Voices of the Third World | Gwendolyn Brooks | 1977 |
| 11th | American Folklore Bicentennial | Alan Dundee & Sam Hinton | 1976 |
| 10th | Michelangelo’s Birthday | Irving Stone | 1975 |
| 9th | The Day for Mythology | Joseph Campbell | 1974 |
| 8th | Language: Symbols and Reaction | Liv Ullman & John Ciardi | 1973 |
| 7th | Values and Meanings in Literature | 1972 | |
| 6th | The Making of Books | 1971 | |
| 5th | “Now;” Current Books Abroad; Comparative Approaches to American Litearature |
Boniface Obichere & Earl Miner | 1970 |
| 4th | The Black Image in Comparative Literature | Sterling Brown | 1969 |
| 3rd | East and West in Literature, Culture and the Arts | Ch’en Shou-Yi | 1968 |
| 2nd | Folklore and Films | Francis Ford Coppola & Arthur Knight | 1967 |
| 1st | Comparative Literature | 1966 |