May 23-24, 2022 Block Seminar: Oceanic imaginaries: cross-cultural encounters in geography and literature Marta Puxan-Oliva (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
April 20th, 2022 Open Lecture: Friendships, Communities, Legacies: Women Writers in Nineteenth-Century Portugal Estela Vieira (Indiana University – Bloomington)
November 17th, 2021
Round Table: Future Pathways and Postdoctoral Programmes
September 28th, 2021
Opening Lecture of the academic year 2021/2022: Bag Lady Scholar: Five Decades of Undisciplined Research—from the Great Depression through the Cold War Paula Rabinowitz (University of Minnesota)
May 31st and June 1st, 2021 Block Seminar: Literature and the End of the World: Apocalyptic Imagination in the 20th and 21st centuries Simona Micali (University of Siena)
March 22nd, 2021 Open Lecture: Stranger in Bali. An Examination of Oka Rusmini’s Tarian Bumi (“Earth Dance”) Jennifer Goodlander (Indiana University – Bloomington)
PhD-COMP Self-Organised Student Workshops 2019/2020
December 9th, 2020
Round Table: Academic Achievements and Career Pathways for PhDs
October 1st, 2020
Opening Lecture of the academic year 2020/2021: Forging Geothematics: Ways for the Cartographic Novel
Giulio Iacoli (Università degli Studi di Parma)
May 14-15, 2020 Block Seminar: The self remembered. A poetics of dislocation and translatedness in contemporary memoirs Alexandra Lopes (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
November 27, 2019 Panel on the job market: Careers for PhDs
November 7, 2019 Seminar: Colonial War and National Memory in Aotearoa New Zealand Annabel Cooper (University of Otago, New Zealand)
September 30, 2019 Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2019/2020: Comparative Literature and Linguicide César Domínguez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
June 8-9, 2019 Block Seminar: Dance-theoretical and postcolonial Reflections on the Artwork of African Dancers and Choreographers Gabriele Klein (Universität Hamburg)
April 3-4, 2019 Block Seminar: Ecologies of the bodies. Post-abyssal reflections on feminisms from African women’s literature Catarina Martins (Universidade de Coimbra)
November 21, 2018
Open Lecture: O Camões dos Orientalistas
K. David Jackson (Yale University)
September 24, 2018 Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2018/2019: Memory Studies Meets Comparative Studies Astrid Erll (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
June 4-5, 2018 Block Seminar:Theorizing Historical Research at the Intersection of Gender and Film/Media Studies Monica dall’Asta (Università di Bologna) and Lucia Tralli (American University of Rome)
March 19-20, 2018 Block Seminar: On photoliterature: methodology and perspectives Jean-Pierre Montier (Université de Rennes 2)
September 29, 2017 Opening Lecture of the Academic Year 2017/2018: Forum Shopping: On Locating Other People’s Comparisons Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University)
May 31, 2017
Lecture: “The air of design”: Accidents in the Modern Experience
Johannes Türk (Indiana University – Bloomington)
May 18-19, 2017
Block Seminar: Sympathy, Science & the State: Aesthetic Ideologies of the Very Long Nineteenth Century
Ortwin de Graef (KULeuven)
March 6-7, 2017
Block Seminar: Narrative Dynamics
Brian Richardson (Department of English, University of Maryland)
March 10, 2016
Lecture: On African Cinema
Manthia Diawara (New York University)
November 20, 2015
Seminar: Publication in Academic Journals: The Example of ‘Textual Practice’
Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)