
11th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature
University of Leeds, 24-28 August 2026
Ethics and Affect: Rethinking the Text and the World
We invite individual papers and themed panels or roundtables (up to 4 speakers per panel, or up to 8 for a double panel) which address the ethical and/or affective relationships between text and world in their broadest sense, encompassing different periods, genres and media. Proposals may rethink the relationship(s) between text(s) and worlds(s) with regard either to ethics, to affect, or to the intersections between them, or offer a critical re-examination of theoretical viewpoints and debates.
Submissions are not required to consider ‘European’ literature(s) per se: we also encourage proposals that think about European/Western dimensions of the study of global literature(s), or the diverse relations between Europe and literatures from the majority world.
The deadline for proposals (panels, roundtables and individual papers) is 30 November 2025.
Acceptances will be sent out by the Scientific Committee by 31 January 2026
Early-bird registration will close on 31 March 2026
The provisional programme will be confirmed by 31 May 2026
Registration will close on 30 June 2026.
The confirmed programme and book of abstracts will be published by 15 July 2026.