Comparative World Literature is a category in the process of consolidation in literary criticism in the Portuguese-speaking world. It has been allowing, as a comparative gesture, a cosmopolitan perspective in the study of literatures in Portuguese, by proposing multiple alternative comparative articulations of these literatures “traditionally” seen as peripheral and those from the global North.

This new epistemological perspective makes possible to rethink literature (and literatures in Portuguese, in particular) from its dense relationships, transits, disseminations and circulations of global order beyond reductive binarisms such as center/periphery, local/global, national/universal. It is in this context that MORPHE Group will hold the first two sessions of the Permanent Seminar “Reading Comparative World Literature” (February 6^th and March 6^th  2023) which aim at discussing the following issues:

1^st session: February 6, 2023
Reading Comparative World Literature I: The possibilities of Comparative World-Literature: how to envisage the expansion of the canon.
Speakers: Hélio Alves (CEComp/FLUL) and Simão Valente (CEComp/FLUP)
When: 2PM-5PM
Where: Room B112.B
Organized by: Helena Carvalhão Buescu and Inocência Mata.

2^nd session: March 6, 2023
Reading Comparative World Literature II: World Literature and Postcolonial Studies: How to read (semi)peripheral literatures?
Speakers: Luca Fazzini (CEComp/FLUL) and Amândio Reis (CEComp/FLUL)
When: 10AM -12.30PM
Where: Room B112.B
Organized by: Helena Carvalhão Buescu and Inocência Mata.