Thursday 20 November 2025
Lecture: Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders
What constitutes a ‘literary’ book? And is there a shift in perspective when one traverses frontiers, navigating between languages, cultures and diverse readerships? On 20 November 2025, Prof. Karina van Dalen-Oskam (Huygens Institute, University of Amsterdam) will deliver the Annual Lecture of the International Association for Comparative Literature (AILC-ICLA), entitled ‘Perceptions of Literariness Across Borders’.
In her lecture, Prof. Van Dalen-Oskam will discuss two pioneering projects: The Riddle of Literary Quality and Novel Perceptions: Towards an Inclusive Canon. She will demonstrate how the combination of readers, data and digital text analysis sheds new light on what constitutes “good literature” (and what does not).
The lecture can be followed online and is accessible to anyone interested in literature, language, and digital humanities. Thursday, 20 November 2025, 14:00–15:30 CET.
Registration
Online registration is available via ailc-icla.org.