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.

“Prismatic Translation,” the workshop of the Research Committee on Literary Theory at the 21st World congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, which will be held at the University of Vienna, between 21–27 July 2016, under the title:

Die vielen Sprachen der Literaturwissenschaft /

The Many Languages of Comparative Literature /

La littérature comparée: multiples langues, multiples langages