The Political Uses of Literature: Comparative Approaches, Theoretical Perspectives is an online conference organized by the members of the “Globalization and Literature” research team at the University of Munich, which is chaired by Robert Stockhammer, former President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory. Taking place on February 5–6 on Zoom, the conference will feature papers by Hunter Bivens, Sandra Fluhrer, Steven Lee, Aurore Peyreles, Gabriel Rockhill, Rebecca Unterberger, and Dirk Wiemann, as well as Galin Tihanov, who is also a former Committee President. Please email the organizers, Ivana Perica (ivana.perica@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) and Benjamin Kohlmann (benjamin.kohlmann@ur.de), for the Zoom link and for precirculated papers.