Institute for Comparative Literature Margarida Losa (ICLML), Universidade de Porto

The strategic plan that the Institute for Comparative Literature will develop during 2015-2020 is titled Literature and Frontiers of Knowledge: Politics of Inclusion. This cross-thematic line will critically review and further reflect on the nature of the limits and boundaries that have been drawn between different fields of knowledge, as well as on the need to revise and rethink them with contemporary tools, tackling new societal challenges and answering the urgent need for a dynamic and interactive perspective of the University in the 21st century. In this sense, this strategic project articulates the academic requirement of modern and contemporary critical thinking with the ethical urgency that the creation and maintenance of a balanced and fair society necessarily raises.