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[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] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%