Conferences
The program in Comparative Literature at UofSC has hosted an annual conference since
1999. The conference is affiliated with INTERTEXTS, a journal published by Texas Tech University Press available through Project Muse.
Our past and upcoming conferences
- Global Food Studies
(March 29-30, 2024)
- Print: Theories, Histories, and Futures
(February 23-25, 2023)
- Truth in the Late Foucault
(February 11-13, 2022)
- Ecologies, Communities, Imaginaries
(March 12-13, 2021)
- China India: Comparisons, Connections, Convergence
(March 27 - 28, 2020)
- Borders and Borderlands
(March 29 - 30, 2019)
- 1968 in Global Perspectives
(Feb. 15th - Feb. 18th, 2018)
- Queering Ireland 2017: Queer Times
(May 19 - May 20, 2017)
- Worlding the Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Conference
(Feb. 25 - Feb. 28, 2016)
- Women and the Holocaust
(March 1 - March 3, 2015)
- Translating the Ancient Classics in China and the West: 1950 and Beyond
(Feb. 26 Mar 2, 2014)
- WagnerWorldWide:America
(Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2013)
- Transatlantics
(March 22 - March 24, 2012)
- Nostos: War, the Odyssey and Narratives of Return
(March 23-27, 2011)
- BODIES
(February 25-27, 2010)
- The Futures of Human Rights: Moral, Legal and Political Cultures
(February 26-28, 2009)
- Plato and Platonisms: The Constitution of a Tradition
(March 20-23, 2008)
- Gilles Deleuze: TEXTS AND IMAGES
(April 5-8, 2007)
- Cultures of Evil and the Attractions of Villainy
(February 9-11, 2006)
- Thinking on the Boundaries: The Availability of Philosophy in Film and Literature
(February 10-12, 2005)
- VOX POP: Locating and Constructing the "Voice of the People"
(February 26-28, 2004)
- The Desire of the Analysts: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Criticism in the Twenty-First
Century
(February 13-15, 2003)
- The Future of Cultural Memory
(February 14-16, 2002)
- Conference on Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
(March 22-25, 2001)
- History, Technology and Identity: After Foucault
(March 16-18, 2000)
- Constructions of the Self: The Poetics of Subjectivity
(April 9-10, 1999)