2024 World Literature Student Conference

Each year since 2014, undergraduates from SFU’s World Literature Program have hosted an interdisciplinary academic student conference addressing cultural, social, and aesthetic frames of reference. Panels range across literature, cinema, & the image, and investigate the socio-political, cultural, & literary fallouts of cross-national encounters.

The 2024 World Literature Student Conference took place on March 28^th in the ballroom of the new student union building. The conference theme, WAVES of DISSONANCE: Harmony, Revolution, & the Human, questioned how artistic discourse become instigators of change. Student presenters explored how disparate ideas flow into new possibilities, unravelling and reharmonizing the flows of the human condition alongside those of literature, art, and culture. 

This year’s conference featured 32 speakers from across our campus giving 3-minute presentations on art, literature, and culture. Over 170 members of the SFU community attended the conference which included dinner, dancing as well as live musical performances. 

As SFU’s largest undergraduate conference, the WLSC’s success is in great part the result of the tireless work and passion of Dr. Mark Deggan, the conference’s faculty liaison.