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| European Society for Literature, Culture and Social Change | |
|---|---|
| Name | European Society for Literature, Culture and Social Change |
| Abbreviation | ESLCSC |
| Established | 2010 |
| Type | Learned society |
| Headquarters | London |
| Region served | Europe |
| Leader title | President |
European Society for Literature, Culture and Social Change.
The European Society for Literature, Culture and Social Change is a learned society that links scholars across United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Romania and other European states to study intersections of William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Giorgio Agamben, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Benedict Anderson, Raymond Williams, T. S. Eliot, Anton Chekhov, Søren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Alexandre Dumas, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Vladimir Nabokov, Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, Elif Şafak.
Founded in 2010 amid debates sparked by events such as the Lisbon Treaty ratification and anniversaries of publishing milestones for Marxists and Modernists, the society emerged from networks at conferences hosted by University College London, Sorbonne University, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bologna, University of Barcelona, Jagiellonian University, University of Amsterdam, Lund University, Trinity College Dublin. Early convenings included panels referencing the legacies of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Republic (France), and comparative studies that invoked the archives of British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Vatican Library, National Library of Poland and discussions around commemorations such as the centenary of World War I.
The society states objectives aligned with critical engagement with texts and contexts exemplified by scholarship on Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism and thinkers tied to institutions like British Academy, Académie française, Max Planck Society, European Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust. Aims include advancing comparative study of canonical figures such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante and contemporary authors like Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Orhan Pamuk, promoting public-facing projects in partnership with museums such as the British Museum, Louvre, Prado Museum, and fostering curricular innovation connected to universities including Oxford University, Cambridge University, Sorbonne, Heidelberg University.
Membership comprises academics affiliated with King's College London, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Lisbon, Charles University, ELTE University, Central European University, doctoral researchers and independent scholars. Governance follows a board elected by members including representatives from centers like the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Royal Society of Literature, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Office-bearers have included presidents and chairs who previously held posts at University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, and research fellows associated with King's College London and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
The society convenes biennial conferences hosted at venues such as Trinity College Dublin, University of Vienna, University of Warsaw, University of Ljubljana, with thematic strands invoking debates around figures and events like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Soviet Union, European Union, Cold War, Fall of the Berlin Wall, French Revolution, Russian Revolution. It organizes workshops and public lectures with partners including European Commission cultural programs, the British Library, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and collaborates with festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hay Festival, Frankfurt Book Fair.
The society publishes peer-reviewed collections and monographs in collaboration with presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury Publishing, and edits journals drawing on editorial boards with members from University of Chicago, Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University visiting through fellowships such as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and grants from the European Research Council. Research initiatives have compared receptions of works by Tolstoy, Proust, Kafka, Homer, Milton, Aeschylus, and supported digital humanities projects hosted by King's Digital Lab, Institut national de l'audiovisuel and national archives including National Archives (UK), Archives nationales (France), Bundesarchiv.
Strategic partnerships include collaborations with the European Association for American Studies, Modern Language Association, Association for Jewish Studies, International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, and cultural institutes such as the Goethe-Institut, Instituto Cervantes, Institut Français, Polish Cultural Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum. The society has engaged in joint programming with funding bodies such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Danish Research Council for Independent Research and with museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The society awards prizes for monographs and articles celebrating scholarship on figures like George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and for public humanities impact recognized by panels including members from British Academy and Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Past recipients have included fellows affiliated with All Souls College, Oxford, Birkbeck, University of London, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and prize ceremonies have been held at venues such as Europe House, Somerset House, Royal Society.