Monika Schmitz-Emans has co-edited, with Christian A. Bachmann and Laura Emans, Bewegungsbücher: Spielformen, Poetiken, Konstellationen. Published by Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, the collective volume is devoted to the phenomena of pop-up and movable books.

Yvonne H. Howell has edited Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction, a volume that brings together 18 science-fiction works from the 1890s to the 1990s, translated into English for the first time. The collection was published in November 2015 by Russian Life Books.

Novel beyond Nation, a special issue of CRCL/RCLC edited by Jernej Habjan, is available at Project MUSE, with the print version forthcoming in a few weeks. Contributors include Nancy Armstrong with Leonard Tennenhouse, Alexander Beecroft, Suman Gupta, Caren Irr, former Committee member Marko Juvan, Emilio Sauri and Hrvoje Tutek.

Salvage: British Comparative Literature Association XIV^th International Conference (Wolverhampton, 12–15 July 2016); deadline 30 Dec. 2015.

Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 2016 (Helsinki, 13–15 June); deadline 6 Jan. 2016.

Robert Stockhammer, Honorary President of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, has written Afrikanische Philologie. The book will appear in January 2016 with Suhrkamp Verlag.

Please download the provisional programme and abstracts of “Prismatic Translation,” the annual workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, which will be held at the University of Vienna on 25–26 July 2016.

Vladimir Biti, Honorary President of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory, has written Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma. The book will appear in January 2016 with de Gruyter.

Beside Thinking, a special issue of CRCL/RCLC edited by Sowon S. Park and bringing the proceedings of the 2013 workshop of the AILC/ICLA theory committee, is available for download with the kind permission of the journal’s Editorial Board.

Diána Márjánovics covers the 2015 Pécs workshop of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory for the Hungarian literary web portal Jelenkor:

http://www.jelenkor.net/visszhang/442/faktum-es-fiktum-hatarain

John Neubauer, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam, died on 5 October 2015 after a brief illness. He died peacefully at his home, surrounded by his family. John will be greatly missed.