Past Conferences
The annual meeting of IALJS is an international conference devoted to the scholarly study, teaching, and practice of literary journalism. The deadline for submission of research papers, work-in-progress abstracts, and panel proposals for the annual conference is early December, and the two-and-a-half day event, open to both faculty and students, is traditionally held in mid-May. In addition, IALJS actively participates in the conferences of a number of other learned societies, sponsoring sessions focusing on related aspects of literary journalism.
IALJS-18
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism and the Wond’rous Glory of the Everlasting Stars”
27-30 May 2024, Macquarie University, Sydney; Deakin University, Melbourne; University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
IALJS-17
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism and a Sense of Place”
18-20 May 2023, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
IALJS-16
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism and Justice”
12-14 May 2022, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
IALJS-15
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism Across Media”
20-22 May 2021, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
IALJS-14
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalist as Naturalist: Science, Ecology and the Environment”
9-11 May 2019, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
IALJS-13
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy”
17-19 May 2018, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
IALJS-12
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: From the Center, From the Margins”
11-13 May 2017, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
IALJS-11
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Telling the Untold Stories”
19-21 May 2016, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Special Report: “Teenagers in Black”
ACLA-31
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Beyond Borders: Literary Journalism as a Global Genre”
17-20 March 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
AEJMC-98
Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Workshop: “Confronting the ‘I’: Literary Journalism and the First Person”
9 August 2015, San Francisco, U.S.A.
IALJS-10
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Media, Meaning, Memory”
7-9 May 2015, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
ACLA-30
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Global Literary Journalism and Social Justice”
26 March 2015, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
ESSE-12
European Society for the Study of English
Roundtable: “Literary Journalism: Explaining Second Cities to Themselves”
29 August – 2 September 2014, Košice to Slovakia
AEJMC-97
Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Workshop: “What’s Old is New Again: Literary Journalism’s Modern Renaissance”
6-9 August 2014, Montreal, Canada
IALJS-9
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Local, Regional, National, Global”
15-17 May 2014, American University of Paris, France
ACLA-29
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Global Literary Journalism and Its Capitals”
20-23 March 2014, New York University, New York, U.S.A.
AEJMC-96
Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Seminar: “Literary Journalism and the Politics of Transparency”
8-11 August 2013, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
IALJS-8
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Text and Context”
16-18 May 2013, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
ACLA-28
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Positioning Global Literary Journalism”
4-7 April 2013, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada
ESSE-11
The European Society for the Study of English
Roundtable: “Literary Journalism: Borders and Boundaries”
4-7 September 2012, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
IALJS-7
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: The Power and Promise of Story”
17-19 May 2012, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ont., Canada
ACLA-27
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Literary Journalism and Catastrophe”
29 March – 1 April 2012, Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.
AEJMC-95
Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Seminar: “Literary Journalism: Telling Stories, Defining Citizenship”
10-13 August 2011, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A.
IALJS-6
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Theoria, Poiesis and Praxis”
12-14 May 2011, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
ACLA-26
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Literary Journalism in a Global Context”
31 March – 3 April 2011, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
SEC-36
AEJMC South East Colloquium
Seminars: “Literary Journalism and the Politics of Reform” and “Global Perspectives on Literary Journalism and Social Justice”
17-19 March 2011, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
ESSE-10
The European Society for the Study of English
Seminar: “History and Literary Journalism”
24-28 August 2010, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
IALJS-5
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Perspectives and Prospects”
20-22 May 2010, Roehampton University, London, U.K.
IALJS-4
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Past, Present and Future”
14-16 May 2009, Northwestern University, Chicago, U.S.A.
ACLA-24
American Comparative Literature Association
Seminar: “Literary Journalism Across Cultures”
26-29 March 2009, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
ESSE-9
The European Society for the Study of English
Seminar: “Literary Journalism and the Canon”
22–26 August 2008, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark
IALJS-3
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy”
15–17 May 2008, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (TULisbon), Lisbon, Portugal
IALJS-2
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Literary Journalism in an International Context”
18–19 May 2007, Institut D’études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris, France
IALJS-1
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
Annual Conference: “Celebrating The Jungle: A Century of Literary Journalism throughout the World”
19–20 May 2006, Nancy-Université, Nancy, France
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