Anne Duprat, member of the ICLA theory committee, and Alison James have co-edited the collective volume Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice (Routledge). The companion volume to Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries), the book proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency. Partly building on the Committee’s 2021 annual workshop “Théories littéraires du hasard et de la contingence / Theorizing Chance: How Does Literary Theory Deal with Contingency?”, it reevaluates the role played by figurative representations of chance in contemporary discourses about chance and contingency.