Award Ceremony 11th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)

Leeds, Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 14:00, Cloth Hall, Room 1 (Session 3.1)

Programme

Moderator: Marijan Dović, Chair of the ESCL Excellence Award Selection Committee

Welcome and opening remarks

• Welcome to participants and guests; introduction to the ESCL Excellence Award
• Overview of the 2026 competition and the award selection process

Editors of shortlisted volumes in conversation (c. 10 minutes each)

• Ioana Alina Bako, Mihaela-Genţiana Stănișor (eds.), Géographies insolites.

Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2025.

Representative editor: Ioana Alina Bako; moderator: Antonella Ippolito

• Anca Parvulescu, Alex Goldiș, Levente T. Szabó (eds.), Acta Comparationis – An Alternative Genealogy of World Comparatism. Transilvania, 4–5 (2025).

Representative editor: Levente T. Szabó; moderator: Zsuzsanna Varga

• Hany Rashwan, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Nasrin Askari (eds.), Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Representative editor: Hany Rashwan; moderator: Marijan Dović

Presentation of the award

• Announcement of the winning volume; presentation of the ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research 2026; congratulations (Rosa Mucignat)
• Acceptance remarks by the winning editor
• Official photographs
• Invitation to the next edition of the ESCL Excellence Award and closing of the ceremony (Marijan Dović)

ESCL Excellence Award Selection Committee

Riccardo Antonangeli (Rome)

Francesco de Cristofaro (Naples)

Marijan Dović (Ljubljana, Chair)

Antonella Ippolito (Potsdam)

Rosa Mucignat (London)

Zsuzsanna Varga (Glasgow)