Multilingualisms in World Literature Conference

This project will explore multilingualism’s revolutionary potential and creative force in language, literature, thought and the visual arts. 

Using the modern period (from the long nineteenth century to the twenty-first century) as the temporal framework, it will examine the flowering of multilingualism inherent in a single linguistic system and one regional cultural complex, and the impact of this on linguistic, literary and cultural creativity. It posits that multilingualism is both effect and instrument of creativity. It will look into languages in dialogue at moments of cultural encounter in the modern period between East and West, or North and South, and for new ways of thinking and writing about the creative impetus that underpins any form of multilingualism and about its role in literary innovation.

View the conference programme online or download a pdf.

Registration for the conference is now open: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/multilingualisms-in-world-literature-conference-tickets-41106372266

See the original call for papers.

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