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The BCLA organizes large, international conferences as well as small-scale workshop conferences, colloquia and symposia, and gives support to similar events in the field of comparative and general literary studies.
The following international conferences have been held:
- 'Invention - Literature and Science' (Leeds, 2004)
Selected papers from the conference will be published in Comparative Critical Studies.
- 'Money' (Swansea, 2001)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 24 (2002).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 35/36 (Spring-Autumn 2003).
- 'Legenda: Reading and Writing Myth' (Lancaster, 1998)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 21 (1999).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 27/28 (Spring-Autumn 1999).
- 'Cities, Gardens, Wildernesses' (Edinburgh, 1995)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 18 (1996).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 21 (Spring 1996).
- 'Across Europe' (Warwick, 1992)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 15 (1993).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 15 (Spring 1993) and New Comparison 16 (Autumn 1993).
- 'Literary Representations of the Self' (Leicester, 1989)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 12 (1990).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 9 (Spring 1990).
- 'Comedy' (Manchester, 1986)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 10 (1988).
A selection of other papers was published in New Comparison 3 (Summer 1987).
- 'The Languages of the Arts' (Kent, 1980)
Plenary papers from the conference were published in Comparative Criticism 4 (1982).
- 'The Novel' (Warwick, 1977)
- 'Problems and Methods of Comparative Literature' (East Anglia, 1975)
Among the BCLA's workshop conferences have been:
- 'Boundaries' (Second BCLA Graduate Conference, London, 2005)
- 'Literary Beasts' (London, 2004)
- 'Autobiografictions' (London, 2003)
Papers from the conference will be published in Comparative Critical Studies.
- 'Undergrounds' (First Annual BCLA Graduate Conference, Manchester, 2003)
- 'Writings and Rewritings: Folk Lore, Fairy Tale and Literature' (Dartington, 2001)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 31 (Spring 2001).
- 'Comparative Joyce' (London, 2000)
- 'Translation and Nation' (Essex, 1999)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 29 (Spring 2000).
- 'Comparative Literature and the New Media' (Luton, 1997)
- 'Feasting' (Wolverhampton, 1996)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 24 (Autumn 1997).
- 'Children's Literature' (Keele, 1994)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 20 (Autumn 1995).
- 'Word in Time: Poetry, Narrative, Translation - Papers in Honour of Arthur Terry' (Colchester, 1993; in association with the University of Essex)
Papers from the conference were published as a separate volume.
- 'The Third Culture: Literature and Science' (London, 1993; ICLA Colloquium on Literary Theory; in conjunction with the Institute of Romance Studies)
Papers from the conference were published as a separate volume.
- 'Metamorphoses' (Lancaster, 1991)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 14 (Autumn 1992).
- 'The Picaresque' (Durham, 1990)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 11 (Spring 1991).
- 'Emigration of Authors and Migration of Styles' (Oxford, 1990; joint Anglo-French Colloquium)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 10 (Autumn 1990).
- 'Adaptation' (Amsterdam, 1988; joint Anglo-Dutch workshop)
- 'Literature and Philosophy' (Durham, 1987)
Papers from the conference were published in New Comparison 5 (Summer 1988).
- 'Translating Shakespeare' (Warwick, 1985)
- 'Metaphor' (York, 1984; joint Anglo-Dutch Workshop)
- 'Theory and History of Literary Translation' (London, 1984; joint Anglo-Belgian Workshop)
- 'Ideas of Poetic Tradition' (Sheffield, 1982)
- 'Parable and Narrative Form in Literature and the Bible' (Cambridge, 1982)
- 'Psychoanalysis and Literature' (Reading, 1979)
- 'Translation' (Brechin, 1978)
- 'Poetics and the Study of Literature' (York, 1976)
The BCLA has also acted as sponsor to conferences containing a significant comparative element, and awarded prizes for literary translation into English
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