The Third East Asian Comparative Literature Conference, “Literary Imagologie in East Asia: East Asian Images of Each Other,” sponsored by the ROC Comparative Literature Association and hosted by the Fu Jen University Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature, will take place in Taipei on December 12-13, 2009.  The First East Asian Comparative Literature Conference had the topic “Methodologies of Comparative Literature Studies in East Asia” (November 2005) and the second “Comparative Literary Studies in East Asia” (December 2007). 

The study of the phenomenon of literary images of each other in East Asia is still at an early stage of development, unlike in Europe, where Imagologie had an important role in the establishment of Comparative Literature as an academic discipline. This conference will bring together scholars from East Asia and elsewhere who are working on the conference theme.