XXIII International Congress of the AILC-ICLA in Tbilisi

This article is a report on the XXIII International Congress of the AILC-ICLA, a hybrid event dedicated to researching various aspects of world literature that was held in Tbilisi in July 2022. It evaluates the keynote papers presented by Irma Ratiani (Georgia), Marko Juvan (Slovenia), Toshiko Ellis (Japan) and Jennifer Wallace (UK). The main lecture on Central and East Euro-pean literatures, Juvan's keynote "How to Think World Literature from its Edge?" examined worldliness as both a global system based on international authorities and prestigious publish-ing houses and as a capillary worlding that, due to its minority character, popularizes the activ-ities of lesser-known writers. The Congress's viewpoint not from the perspective of the Anglo-phone "centers", but from its margins, enabled the reflection of a number of other subtopics such as the issue of so-called minor literature, gender, postcolonialism, digital culture, intermedi-ality, interculturality, etc. The general conclusions reached at the Congress can be formulated as follows: 1. the reinterpretation of comparative literature from institutional and thematic per-spectives, 2. the point of view of so-called small literatures, and 3. the revitalization of the term "national literature".