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World Literature Vacation School

WORLD LITERATURE: THEORIES, PRACTICE, PEDAGOGIES

A 4-day Vacation School, 15-18 September 2014


Sponsored by the Connecting Cultures GRP and the Institute of Advanced Study
Organizers: Chris Campbell, Sorcha Gunne, Michael Niblett


The vacation school was an intensive, four-day series of workshops and training events that addressed the question of world literature. It combined keynote talks by leading scholars in the field with sessions dedicated to critical debates in the field, pedagogy and research funding and publishing, and considered the practical implications of new developments in literary studies for academic life.

Click below for recordings of the keynote talks:

Keynote address: Professor Neil Lazarus

Keynote address: Professor Jason Moore

Keynote address: Professor Maria Elisa Cevasco

Keynote address: Professor Stephen Shapiro

Keynote Address: Professor Ericka Beckman

Keynote address: Professor Joe Cleary

Keynote address: Gisele Sapiro