UNESCO & FILLM
HOME | ABOUT | NEWS | MEMBERSHIP | EVENTS | PUBLICATIONS | BLOGS | CONTACT
MENUEVENTS

Forthcoming

FILLM Events

Member Events






FILLM Congresses
Updated: 24 April 2020

The chief means by which the FILLM represents and serves its constituent membership has traditionally been the triennial International Congress. The Congresses explicitly seek to foster links between scholars in the developed world, the countries of which provided the original impetus to the study of medieval and modern languages and literatures in the European tradition, and researchers in developing countries who, often in difficult conditions, seek to maintain and develop both the older and newer  aspects of the discipline and to apply scholarly and critical methods within their own situation.

The FILLM Congresses offer scholars an opportunity for relaxed and friendly discussion with colleagues within their own and related disciplines from all over the world. There is usually a main theme for the entire Congress, which is broken down into a number of sub-themes, which are further divided into parallel sessions. Each sub-theme takes up a day or half a day, and is defined in such a way as to be of interest to scholars with widely varied disciplinary and geographical backgrounds. This means that scholars are able to compare notes with each other about their own specialist knowledge as seen in relation to the major general concerns being debated within linguistic and literary scholarship world-wide. This kind of structure encourages a broadening of horizons which many scholars find so enjoyable that they return to the FILLM Congresses time and time again.

The International Congresses take place every three years and now routinely move round the globe. In recent years Congresses have been held in Regensburg (1996), Harare (1999), Bangkok (2002), Cairns, Queensland (2005), Lyon (2008), Halden, Norway (2011) and Ningbo, China (2014). The 2017 and 2020 Congresses will be held in New Delhi, India and Vienna, Austria respectively. Below is an overview of FILLM's Congresses, past and future.

For an overview of the published Congress proceedings, please see publications.


FILLM Congresses

CongressYear PlaceTheme
28th2021Vienna, Austria"Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective"
27th2017New Delhi, India"The Familiar and the Exotic in Language and Literature: The Politics of Perception and Representation"
26th2014Ningbo, China
"Languages and Literatures Today"
25th2011Halden, Norway"World Languages and World Literatures"
24th2008Lyon"Languages, Literatures and the Media"
23rd2005Cairns, Australia"Text and the City: Language and Literature in Urban Contexts"
22nd2002Bangkok"Re-Imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century"
21st1999Harare"Third Millennium, Third World: Retrospect, Introspect, Prospect"
20th1996Regensburg"Languages, Literatures and the Young: Books for Children and Adolescents; Literary Representations of Childhood and Youth; Children and Language Acquisition; How and Why are Languages Taught to the Young"
19th1993Brasília"Language and Literature Today: Modernity and Postmodernity; Communication, Technologies and Translation in the `Global Village'; The Canon and Canonicity; Interdisciplinary Approaches; The Literatures of Latin America"
18th1990Novi Sad"The Impact on Language and Literature of Contacts between Peoples - Resistance, Acceptance, Fragmentation, Fusion." Mini-Colloquium: Mikhail Bakhtin
17th1987Guelph, Ontario"Historical and Cultural Contexts of Linguistic and Literary Phenomena"
16th1984Budapest"Change in Language and Literature"
15th1981Arizona"Adjoining Cultures as Reflected in Literature and Language"
14th1978Aix-en-Provence"Society and Self in Language and Literature"
13th1975Sydney"Language and Literature in the Formation of National and Cultural Communities"
12th1972Cambridge"Expression, Communication and Experience in Literature and Language"
11th1969Islamabad"Tradition and Change"
10th1966Strasbourg"Le Réel dans la littérature et dans la langue"
9th1963New York"Literary History and Literary Criticism"
8th1960Liège"La littérature et la langue"
7th1957Heidelberg"Stil-und Formprobleme in der Literatur"
6th1954Oxford"La littérature et la science"
5th1951Florence"La littérature et les beaux-arts"
4th1948Paris"La littérature et la politique"
3rd1938Lyon"Les genres littéraires"
2nd1935Amsterdam"Périodes dans l'histoire littéraire depuis la Renaissance"
1st1931Budapest

ABOUT FILLM

About Us

Mission and Strategy

Constitution

Committee

Former Officers

FILLM Logo
NEWS

News

Archive
MEMBERSHIP

Membership

Members
EVENTS

Forthcoming

FILLM Events

Member Events

PUBLICATIONS

Recent

Book Series

Congress Proceedings

FILLM Newsletter

Others
BLOGS

Latest Posts

Bloggers


Archive

Tags
CONTACT

Webmaster

FILLM Committee

Members