[Source: Bollettino '900]
XVth Congress of the ICLA
International Comparative Literature Association
"Literature as Cultural Memory"
Leiden, 6-22 August 1997
The XVth Congress of the International Comparative
Literature Association (ICLA) will be held from
Saturday August 16 through Friday August 22, 1997
at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. The theme
of the congress is Literature as Cultural Memory.
The main sections of the congress:
Section 1: Nation Building
Section 2: Colonizer and Colonized
Section 3: The Conscience of Humankind
Section 4: Gendered Memories
Section 5: Genres as Repositories of Cultural Memory
Section 6: Methods for the Study of Literature as
Cultural Memory
Section 7: Reconstructing Cultural Memory:
Translations, Script, Literacy
Section 8: Intercultural Studies.
The Congress will consist of plenary sessions, parallel
sessions for various forms of shorter presentations,
round tables, and two general assemblies (on the first
and last day).
For general inquiries concerning the congress, please
contact the general organizer of the congress: Theo
D'Haen, English Department, Leiden University,
Box 9515, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands,
tel. 31-71-5272144, fax. 31-71-5272615,
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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