UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Research Symposium

The RSVP for our event is open! We look forward to hosting you all next Saturday!
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Exciting news! The deadline for the symposium has been extended to March 8th. Apply here: tinyurl.com/calcomplitsymp23

Please visit our submission guidelines here for more information: https://calcomlitsymposium.wordpress.com/submit/submission-guidelines/

Email us at [email protected] with any questions. We look forward to reading your submissions!

A year after our symposium’s triumphant post-lockdown return, the committee is pleased to announce the theme of our 10th Annual Symposium: (Re)imagining the Body: the Abject, the Peculiar, and the Other.

For our 10th event, we wanted to conceptualize a theme that honored the work of previous symposia, while encouraging fresh takes on literature, culture, and society. Find out more on our website: https://calcomlitsymposium.wordpress.com/about/on-this-years-event/

Apply here: tinyurl.com/calcomplitsymp23

[Deadline: March 1st, 2023]

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Our deadline has been extended to March 18! To apply, please submit a 200-400 word abstract here:
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We are back for our ninth annual symposium! This year’s event will be a hybrid model held both in person and over Zoom. We are accepting submissions now until March 11th. The event will take place on April 9th, 2022 at the Comparative Literature Library in 4337 Dwinelle. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWH-nRwqBLyAokdNypHc07UPIjM8op4sy96w3dcWI-qUeK-g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thank you to the committee members, panel moderators, and presenters for making this year's symposium possible! Photos from the event and details about next year will be posted soon.

We are happy to present the official program for the 7th Annual Symposium, taking place this Saturday, April 7th, at 4337 Dwinelle Hall! Guests are welcome to attend as many panels as they are interested in. We hope to see you all there!

A reminder to all applicants: the deadline to confirm your attendance is tomorrow night, March 21, at 5:00 PM PST. Please let us know if you are coming! Panels will be announced soon, along with the itinerary for the symposium. Looking forward to April 7th!

REMINDER: The submission deadline is approaching! Submit your proposals by this Wednesday, March 7th, at 5 PM PST to be considered for this year's symposium. We look forward to reading your work!

Call For Submissions: 2018 Undergraduate Comparative Literature Research Symposium Is not what holds us in check before the law… also what paralyzes and detains us when confronted with a story: is it not its possibility and its impossibility, its readability and unreadability, its necessity and prohibition, and the questions of relation, of repetition and of history? - Jacques D...