Past Congresses
Thanks to the generosity of York’s librarians, the CCLA’s Congress keynotes, programs, and AGM minutes are archived on York Space: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37529.
Congress 2023 (York University)
The 2023 CCLA conference and Congress took place on May 29-June 1, 2023 at York University in Toronto. Please see the program below.
Photos from 2023 Congress events
Keynote: Nicole Huang, University of Hong Kong, “Re-Imagining Encounters: When Eileen Chang “Met” Stella Benson”
Congress 2022: virtual via zoom
The 2022 CCLA conference took place on June 21-24, 2022 via Zoom. This year’s theme was “Divergence and Convergence in Comparative Literature.” Please see the conference program below. For more information contact Program Chair Jack Leong (cclaaclccongress2022@gmail.com).
Congress 2022 took place May 12-20, 2022. You can find out more about it here.
Keynote: Haun Saussy, University of Chicago, “Divergence / Difference: Divergent or Merely Different?”
Congress 2021: virtual via zoom
For Congress 2021 the CCLA decided to run its own virtual program from this space via Zoom. Here is the CCLA ACLC 2021 Program, which took place from 11-16 May 2021.
Poetry Workshop with Kendel Hippolyte; moderator: Doris Hambuch
Congress 2020: virtual via zoom
CfP Congress 2020: Bridging Divides and Confronting Colonialism and Anti- Black Racism via Comparative Literature, deadline: Dec. 15, 2019
Congress 2020 @ Western University in London, Ontario – Bridging Divides/ Bâtir des passerelles, 31 May – June 2 – was cancelled. We held our annual meeting this year online via Zoom from Saturday, May 30 to Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
A PDF of the program is available here. Videos of the panels are archived on York Space.
Congress 2019 (University of British Columbia)
– 50th anniversary celebration
Circles of Conversation (June 1 – June 7)
CCLA_2019_CFP
CCLA 2019 Print Program (printed courtesy of the Centre of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
Online Program
CCLA AGM Minutes 2019
Photos from 2019 Congress events
Keynote: David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University: “Ethics Before Comparison”
Keynote: Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus University: “Remembering Genocide”
Congress 2018 (University of Regina)
Gathering Diversities (May 26 – June 1)
CCLA CFP 2018
CCLA 2018 Program
CCLA AGM Minutes – May 29, 2018
Photos from 2018 Congress events
Keynote: Cheryl Suzak, University of Toronto: “Historicizing Indigenous Dispossession: The Photographs of Elaine Goodale Eastman and the Advocacy for Indigenous Rights” (audio only)
Congress 2017 (Ryerson University)
From Far and Wide, On Indigenous Lands at 150 (May 27 – June 3)
CCLA Congress 2017 CFP
CCLA Print Program 2017 (printed courtesy of the Centre of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, also thanks to local Ryerson organizers Monique Tschofen and Aleksandra Bida)
CCLA 2017 Program (sched)
CCLA AGM Minutes 2017
Photos from 2017 Congress events
Keynote: KWOK-KAN TAM, The Open University of Hong Kong
“Art and Ideology in China’s Postsocialist Stage Productions of Ibsen’s Plays”
Congress 2016 (University of Calgary)
Energizing Communities/ L’energie des communautés (May 28 – June 3)
CCLA Congress 2016 Call for Papers
CCLA Print Program 2016 (printed courtesy of the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
CCLA AGM minutes 2016
Photos from 2016 Congress events
Keynote: CHRISTOPHER LEE, University of British Columbia
“Passages of Community in Chinese Canadian Writing”
Congress 2015 (Université d’Ottawa)
Le capital des idées/ Capital Ideas (31 May-June 2)
CCLA-CFP Congress 2015 – deadline Dec. 15, 2014
CCLA Print Program 2015 (printed courtesy of the Centre of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
Photos from 2015 Congress events
Keynote: ROSEANN RUNTE, Carleton University/Université Carleton, “Travel Narrative and Autobiography: Women Writers between Countries, Genres and Styles/ Histoires de voyage et de vie: Écrivaines en voyage entre pays, genres et styles”
Congress 2014 (Brock)
Borders without Boundaries/ Frontières sans limites
CCLA/ ACLC Call for Papers / Appel de communications
CCLA Print Program 2014 (printed courtesy of the Centre of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
Photos from 2014 Congress events
Keynote: STUART TABERNER, University of Leeds, UK, “Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and New Forms of Literary Engagement in Contemporary German-language Writing” (co-organized with CAUTG)
Roundtable: CCLA Today and Tomorrow (Susan Ingram, Lai-tze Fan, audience; AUDIO ONLY)
Congress 2013 (Victoria)
CCLA/ ACLC Call for Papers / Appel de communications 2013
Photos from 2013 Congress events
Keynote: Native Alienz (Hilary Chung, University of Auckland)
Congress 2012 (Wilfrid Laurier and Waterloo)
- CCLA | ACLC Call for Papers / Appel de communications 2012
- CCLA 2012 Program
- CCLA AGM Minutes 2012
- Photos from 2012 Congress events
Congress 2011 (Fredericton)
En 2011, le Congrès des Sciences Humaines “Rivages et continents: exploration des peuples et des lieux” se tendait à Fredericton du 28 mai au 4 juin. Pour plus d’informations, visiter: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2011/ In 2011, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences “Coasts and Continents: Exploring Peoples and Places” took place in Fredericton from 28 May to 4 June. For more information please visit: http://www.fedcan.ca/congress2011/
Congress 2010 (Concordia):
- ACLC APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS/ CCLA CALL FOR PAPERS 2010
- CCLA 2010 Program
- CCLA AGM Minutes 2010
- Photos from the 2010 soirée
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