2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference
CONFERENCE
Date:
May 26, 2026 (Tuesday)
Time:
9:00:AM-6:00PM
Venue:
CPD Level-3, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Registration:
https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3wmmrfyaCDDJrTM
Visit WEBSITE:
https://complit.hku.hk/malcs/ipclc/index.html
ABOUT
The 2026 International Postgraduate Comparative Literature Conference (IPCLC 2026), hosted by the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies (MALCS) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), brings together postgraduate students and emerging scholars from Hong Kong and beyond for a day of cross-cultural conversation. Taking place in person at HKU on 26 May 2026, the conference offers a supportive forum for sharing work in progress, building scholarly networks, and testing new comparative methods across literary, cultural, and media studies. Featuring themed panels, a keynote lecture, and Best Paper Award(s), IPCLC 2026 invites participants to consider how comparison can sharpen our understanding of urgent questions in the humanities.
ABOUT this year's theme:
Centred on “Care in Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” the conference examines care as both an ethical ideal and a contested practice shaped by history, power, and representation. Across languages, genres, and media, care can denote intimacy and obligation, vulnerability and repair, as well as the institutional arrangements and neoliberal techniques of self-optimization that distribute attention unevenly and obscure structural inequalities. We welcome papers that trace care’s many forms—from ecological concern and urban life to migration, trauma, and the politics of recognition—and that ask how narratives, images, and critical theory make care thinkable and debatable across cultural contexts.