International Comparative Literature Association, 15th Congress, Leiden, 1997.

• Colonizer and colonized
• Gendered memories
• Genres as repositories of cultural memory
• Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature
• Methods for the study of literature as cultural memory
• Reconstructing cultural memory: translation, scripts, literacy
• The conscience of humankind
• Travel writing and cultural memory = Ecriture du voyage et mémoire culturelle