Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity

Commission Members: ,

President: Lisa Block de Behar,

University of Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

Vice President: Paola Mildonian,

Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Venezia, Italy

Vice President: Jean-Michel Djian,

University of Paris 8, France

Vice President: Djelal Kadir,

Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Vice President: Alfons Knauth,

Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany

Vice President: Dolores Romero López,

Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain

Vice President: Márcio Seligmann Silva,

University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil (*Former President to  the commission was Tania Franco Carvalhal, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil who has passed away in 2006)

Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity

Lisa Block de Behar, University of Republica, Uruguay

Introduction: Language, Literature, And Human Sustainability

Djelal Kadir, Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Comparative Literature and the Plural Vision of Discourse

Zhang Longxi, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

The Notion of Comparing and the Meeting of the Fragments

John T. Kirby, Purdue University, U.S.A

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives of Literature

Anders Pettersson, Umea University, Sweden

Languages and Cultural Dialogues

Remo Ceserani, University of Bologna, Italy

Hermeneutics Need and the Inevitability of Comparing

Reingard Nethersole, University of Pretoria & University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

The Tradition of Comparison of Arts

Marcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva, UNICAMP, Brazil

Plastic Arts and Literature

Anne-Marie Christin, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France

Relations between Literature and Music in the Context of a General Typology of Internediality

Werner Wolf, University of Graz, Austria

Literature and Film: Modernity – Medium – Adaptation

Steven Ungar, Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature, The University of Iowa, USA

Literature and the Other Arts: The Point of View of Semiotics

Winfried Nöth, Universität Kassel
Lucia Santaella, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Comparative Literature and other Fields of Knowledge: A General Introduction

Paola Mildonian, Dipartimento di Studi Anglo-Americani e Ibero-Americani, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy

Literature, Exact and Biophysical Sciences

Isabel Capeloa Gil, Faculty of Human Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal

Narrative in History / History in Narrative

Franco Marenco, Department of Linguistic Science and Comparative Literature, University of Torino, Italy

Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Ethnic Literature, and Cultural Diversity

David Trauer, Associate Professor of English, The University of Minnesota, USA

Literature and Psychoanalysis

Stéphane Michaud, University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

Literary Imagination: Criticism and Research

Micéala Symington, Université de La Rochelle, France, France

Literature And Philosophy

Sieghild Bogumil-Notz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Epistemological Frontier Criss-crossings

Vladimir Biti, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Comparative Literature,Criticism and Media

Lisa Block de Behar, University of Republica, Uruguay

Literature and Mass-Media- The Spectacle of Writing

Biagio D'Angelo, Universidad Catolica Sedes Sapientiae, Peru

The Impact of Media on Literature

William Egginton, Bernadette Wegenstein, The Johns Hopkins University,

Literary Journals

Sue Waterman, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Criticism and Media

Norberto Cambiasso Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alfredo Grieco y Bavio, Buenos Aires Argentina

Criticism and Education

Augusto Ponzio and Susan Petrilli, Philosophy of language and General Linguistics at the University of Bari Italy

Alternative Forms In The Distribution Of Literature

Sergio Di Nucci, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentinia

Comparative Literature in the Age of Global Change

Impacts of Contemporary Developments on General and Comparative Literature

Alckmar dos Santos, Universidade de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Dolores Romero Lopez, Dpt. Filologia Espanola II (Literatura Espanola), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Technologies and Literatures

Amelia Sanz, Unviersidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

The Relevance of Distinctive Kinds of supporting Materials

Ajuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Interactivity and Open-ending(Literary Works)

Maria Goicoeachea De Jorge, Dept. of English Literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Virtual Trips

Ajuncion Lopez-Varela Azcarate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Translatio Studii and Cross-Cultural Movements or Weltverkehr

Alfons Knauth, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany

The Weltverkehr Or World Traffic Of Books: Modern Anthologies Of World Poetry

Monika Schmitz-Emans, Dept. of Comparative Literature ,Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany

Contemporary Weltverkehr Or World Traffic Of Comparatist Scholars: World Congresses Of The International Comparative Literature Association (Icla)

Fridrun Rinner, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille Aix-en-Provence, France
Roland Issler, Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Africa And The Weltverkehr / World Traffic Of Tongues, Books, And Scholars

Susanne Gehrmann, African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Literary Multilingualism I: General Outlines And Western World

K. Alfons Knauth, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany

Literary Multilingualism II: Multilingualism In India

Amiya Dev, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India