On 23–24 June, the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin (ZfL) hosted ‘Critique/Criticism’, this year’s annual workshop of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Committee on Literary Theory. Speakers included Jernej Habjan from the literary institute of ZRC SAZU; Habjan presented a paper on ‘World Literature between Criticism and Critique: 1848, 1945, 1989, 2001, 2008’.