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The AILC/ICLA sponsors a general international congress every third year. Proposals for future congresses are made to the ICLA Bureau who puts the various options to the general membership for a vote. Voting for meeting locations and future officers is done at the congress.

Recent congresses have been held in Hong Kong, Pretoria, South Africa, and Leiden, The Netherlands. This space will provide information about upcoming congresses as it becomes available.

Proceedings from these congresses (as well the products of its research committees) are published by the AILC/ICLA.

XIXth Congress of the ICLA

The 2010 congress of the ICLA will be sponsored by the Korea Comparative Literature Association and held in Daegu, Korea, a city situated in a region southeast of Seoul rich in traditional monuments of Korean culture. The general theme of the congress will be: Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature. Proposed session will be on:

• Making Comparative Literature Global: New Theories and Practices
• Locating Literature in the Hypertextual Age
• Nature, Technology, and Humanity in Different Traditions
• Writing the Conflicts and Otherness
• Translating Differences, Connecting the World

Question and suggestions should be directed to

Prof. LEE Eungsoo
President pro tempore of the Korea Comparative Literature Association
EEES@sejoung, ac.kr

The XVIII triennial congress of the ICLA was held in Rio de Janeiro July 28 - August 4, 2007. The conference was organized by Eduardo Coutinho and an able team of colleagues the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and took place on the Praia Vermelha Campus of that institution. Within the context of the general theme Beyond Binarisms: Discontinuities and Displacements in Comparative Literature papers on a wide variety of topics were presented that often elicited animated and sustained discussion.

On this occasion, the elections were not only held to determine new officers of the Association but also addressed the question of the venue of the XIX congress in 2010. The list of new officers-both those elected and those appointed by the newly elected president-is found under the Organization and the Congress tabs respectively. Daegu, Korea was selected in preference to Montreal, Canada as the site of the next conference.

During the course of the congress of the Anna Balakian Prize was awarded for the first time with Anna Balakian's daughter, Suzanne Nalbantian, taking part in this the initial conferral of the prize. The winner was the Danish scholar Line Henriksen for her book Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth Century Epics. Cross Cultures: Reading in the Post / Colonial Literatures of English 88. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2002. Procedures for submitting books for the prize to be awarded at the next congress can be found under the Anna Balakian Prize heading under the announcements tab.