30th International FILLM Congress
We’re excited to announce the 30th Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM), taking place from 8–11 December 2026 at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia!
Theme: Talking Country Join us as we explore how “country” shapes—and is shaped by—languages, literatures, and cultures. From Indigenous knowledges to global multiculturalism, the Congress invites reflection on how we speak with, through, and about the places we inhabit.
We recived proposals for:
Individual presentations
Curated panel sessions
Practice-based workshops
Organisational meetings
Looking forward to this amazing event!
Let’s meet in Melbourne to celebrate the power of language and literature across cultures and continents!
29th International Congress 2023, Accra, Ghana
In Process.
28th International Congress, 2021, Vienna, Austria
Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective
Bodomo, A. & Koblitz C. (eds.) John Benjamins, 2024
27th International Congress, 2017, New Delhi, India
Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature. Meenakshi Bharat and Madhu Grover (eds) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2019
26th International Congress, 2014, Ningbo, China
(Not published)
Congress Proceedings
25th International Congress, 2011, Halden, Norway
Major Versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World Theo D'han, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell (eds) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015
24th International Congress, 2008, Lyon, France
(Not published)
23rd International Congress, 2005, Cairns, Australia
(Not published)
22nd International Congress, 2002, Bangkok, Thailand
Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century Suthira Duangsamosorn et al. (eds) Amsterdam / New York, NY: Rodopi, 2005
21st International Congress, 1999, Harare, Zimbabwe
Broaching Frontiers, Shattering Boundaries. On Tradition and Culture at the Dawn of the Third Millennium T.E. Knight (ed) Frankfurt/M, Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002
20th International Congress, 1996, Regensburg, Germany
Children in Literature – Children’s Literature Paul Neubauer (ed) Frankfurt/M, Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002
19th International Congress, 1993, Brasilia, Brazil
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 University of Brasília, 1996.
18th International Congress, 1990, Novi Sad, Serbia
(Not published)
17th International Congress, 1987, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Historical and Cultural Contexts of Linguistic and Literary Phenomena University of Guelph, 1989. From: English Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
16th International Congress, 1984, Budapest, Hungary
Change in Language and Literature Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1986. From: Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.
15th International Congress, 1981, Arizona, USA
Adjoining Cultures as Reflected in Literature and Language Arizona State University, 1983. From: Peter Horwarth, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 85287-0202, U.S.A.
14th International Congress, 1978, Aix-en-Provence, France
(Not published)
13th International Congress, 1975, Sidney, Australia
Language and Literature in the Formation of National and Cultural Communities Australasian Univ. Lang. & Lit. Assn., (c/o Dr Alan Corkhill, Department of German, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia).
12th International Congress, 1972, Cambridge, England
Expression, Communication and Experience in Literature and Language Modern Humanities Research Association, 1973 (c/o Maney Publishing, Hudson Road, Leeds LS9 7DL, UK; maney@maney.co.uk)
11th International Congress, 1969, Islamabad, Pakistan
(Not published)
10th International Congress, 1966, Strasbourg, France
Le Réel dans la littérature et dans la langue Paris, Librairie Klincksieck, 1967.
9th International Congress, 1963, New York, USA
Literary History and Literary Criticism New York University Press, 1964.
8th International Congress, 1960, Liège, Belgium
La littérature et la langue ed. Belles Lettres, Paris, (95 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e), 1961
7th International Congress, 1957, Heidelberg, Germany
Stil-und Formprobleme in der Literatur Winter, Heidelberg, 1959
6th International Congress, 1954, Oxford, England
La littérature et la science Blackwell, Oxford, 1955. (Note: Out of print).
5th International Congress, 1951, Florence, Italy
La littérature et les beaux-arts Valmartini, Florence, 1955.
4th International Congress, 1948, Paris, France
La littérature et la politique Boivin, Paris, 1950.
3rd International Congress, 1938, Lyon, France
Les genres littéraires Résumé of communications printed in the internat. review Helicon, Vol. 2, fasc. 1, published by Editions Académiques Panthéon, Amsterdam/Leipzig, 1938.
2nd International Congress, 1935, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Périodes dans l'histoire littéraire depuis la Renaissance Proceedings published in Bulletin of Int. Committee of Historical Science, Vol. IX, pt. 3, Paris, Presses Univ. Françaises, 1937
1st International Congress, 1931, Budapest, Hungary
Actes du 1er Congrès Int. d'Histoire Littéraire Vol. IV, Pt, 1, no. 14 of the Bulletin of Int. Committee of Historical Science, Paris, Presses Univ. Françaises, 1932.
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