Bratislava, 8.-9. October 2026
Conference venue: Malé kongresové centrum SAV, Bratislava

Organized by Marianna Deganutti (Institute of World Literature SAS), Esther Kilchmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), and Dirk Weissmann (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) within COST Action MultiLiLiTrans – Literary Multilingualism and Social Transformations in Superdiverse Societies.

The conference brings together scholars of literary multilingualism from fifteen countries to address the continued dominance of monolingual and national paradigms in the philologies and to explore how critical concepts, methods, and multilingual practices can reshape literary studies. A related workshop will focus on developing a multilingual knowledge base for research on literary multilingualism, with particular attention to terminology, comparison across languages, and the challenges of asymmetry and untranslatability.

The conference programme is available on the event website HERE.