📣 AILC–ICLA Annual Lecture 2025

Join us on 20 November 2025, 13:00–14:30 UTC for Prof. Karina van Dalen-Oskam’s lecture “Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders.”

She will present insights from two major projects—The Riddle of Literary Quality and Novel Perceptions—exploring how readers evaluate 400 contemporary novels and how genre, gender, translation, and linguistic features shape perceptions of literariness.

📍 Online | Open to all
👉 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/the-ailc-icla-annual-lecture-2025-tickets-1837895437729

Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be sent via the submission form by April 25, 2025. Two formats are available:

Lightning Talk (5 min): Short presentation of a project or idea (max 250 words).

Demo (15 min): Interactive presentation of a tool or workflow (max 500 words). Supporting materials (e.g., notebooks, videos) can be included.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Acceptance notifications will be sent by May 2, 2025.

Conference Schedule & Topics
The program will take place on Monday, July 14, 2025, from 13:30 to 20:00 WET. It will feature lightning talks and demos on topics including:

Distant reading techniques in a comparative literary context.

Multilingual literary archives and text digitization.

The transformation of books and reading in the digital age.

GIS and data visualization in comparative literature.

Machine translation and AI in literary studies.

Language models in comparative literature.

📢 The Research Committee on Digital Comparative Literature (DCL) is organizing a session at the upcoming ICLA Congress in Seoul (28th July - 1st August, 2025).

If you're interested in submitting a proposal, please note the following details:
📝 Submission Deadline: 31st January 2025
📏 Max Length: 3000 characters

You can find the full Call here: https://icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/2025/icla-session.html

Looking forward to your submissions!

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👥 Leadership Team

Chairperson: Prof. Simone Rebora (University of Verona, IT)
Co-chair: Prof. Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, KR / Linnaeus University, SE)
Secretary: Prof. Yina Cao (Sichuan University, CN)
📬 Want to participate in our activities? Contact:
Prof. Simone Rebora: [email protected]
Prof. Youngmin Kim: [email protected]

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🗺️ Our topics of exploration include:

Distant reading techniques & computational literary studies
The transformation of books and reading in the post-digital age
Born-digital literature
Machine translation & artificial intelligence in comparative literature
Join us as we explore the future of literary studies! 🔍

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