Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Regular Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington, and a long-standing functionary of the ICLA, passed away on 24 July 2016 after a brief illness. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family. Mihály will be greatly missed.

“Prismatic Translation,” the annual workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, is only a few days away. The workshop will take place on 25–26 July at the University of Vienna as part of the XXI. Congress of the ICLA.

Here are the updated programme and abstracts of “Prismatic Translation,” the annual workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory. The workshop will take place on 25–26 July at the University of Vienna as part of the XXI. Congress of the ICLA.

The Chinese Scriptworld and World Literature, a special issue of the Journal of World Literature edited by Sowon S. Park, is available from Brill, with free online access until the end of 2017. Contributors include David Damrosch, Charles Lock, Judy Wakabayashi, Edward McDonald, Karen L. Thornber, Andrea Bachner, HyungTaek Lim, Matthew Chozick and John Duong Phan.

Jernej Habjan has co-edited, with Suman Gupta and Hrvoje Tutek, Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education. The edited collection of critical essays on neoliberal policies of higher-education funding and management was published by Palgrave Macmillan.