Plenary Lectures

Monday 24 August  14:00  

Duncan Large  

Translating Affect (Ethically) in the Age of AI  

Duncan Large  is Professor of European Literature and Translation, University of East Anglia / Former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation  

Monday 24 August circa 16:00 (tbc)  

Susan Bassnett 

Reassessing Comparative Literature Today 

Susan Bassnett is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow / Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick / President of the British Comparative Literature Association  

Tuesday 25 August 09:00  

Jean-Louis Haquette 

"Le cri de la nature : mises en scène de la morale naturelle au siècle des Lumières" 

(The Cry of Nature: Scenes of Natural Morality in the Age of Enlightenment’) 

 Jean-Louis Haquette est Professeur des Universités en Littérature comparée, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne 

Thursday 27 August circa 16:00  

Elleke Boehmer  

Doing comparison across the blue hemisphere: why and how 

 Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford / Director, Oxford Centre for Life Writing