Welcome
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings brings together researchers in the field of literary studies, literary translation studies, theatre studies and journalism studies. CLIC hosts over 60 members, who focus their research on various ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces.
Recent news
Public PhD defence Zhaleh Hosseini
'The Literary Cartography of Tehran: A Geocritical Analysis of Urban Narratives in Azar Nafisi's Prose'...
24th meeting of the Platform for Postcolonial Readings
Theme: 'Hybridity and Other Innovative Forms in Literature from the Arab World: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective'...
Afroeurope@ns Conference: Twenty Years of Decolonising Knowledge
MERLIT Researchers, Eva Ulrike Pirker and Tola Ositelu , will be participating in the Afroeuropea@ns Conference: Twenty Years of Decolonising Knowledge - hosted by the University of León, Spain from 1-4 October 2024.
New ERC Project: 'AFROPRESS - Recovering Global Exchanges from Sub-Saharan Africa’s Cultural and Political Magazines in the Age of Black Internationalism, 1918-68'
CLIC is proud to announce that one of our members, Dr. Cedric Van Dijck, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
BAAHE Conference 2024
The Anglicists at Vrije Universiteit, among them members of the MERLIT team, are looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Brussels for talks and debates on the (Trans)Portability of English – the language as well as the literature and the culture that come with it.
Upcoming events
Practical info-WOLEC Lunch Lecture Prof. Birgit Neumann: “Negotiating the Digital in Contemporary Anglophone Novels – ‘Cure’ and ‘Poison’ for Black Collectivities?”
Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room C2.07a
Practical info-EUTOPIA Autumn School - Multilingualism in Brussels: 12-15 November 2024
The Autumn School, designed within the EUTOPIA Network, aims to equip students with intercultural and international skills. It is a Research Seminar focused on Multilingualism in Brussels, as well as other multilingual and multicultural contexts.
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Programme Online: 24th meeting of the Platform for Postcolonial Readings
Programme is available! 
Practical info-VAL Symposium 2024: 'Literature and Materiality'
Erasmushuis, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven
Practical info-“That I should report on these things”: Reading and Discussion with German writer Esther Dischereit
Part of the series 'Ties that Bind Us'-
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BAAHE Conference 2024
The Anglicists at Vrije Universiteit, among them members of the MERLIT team, are looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Brussels for talks and debates on the (T
Practical info-Interdisciplinary Conference: Diasporic Poetics and Performance
Logis du Roy (Amiens)
Publications
Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals
prize-winning volume coedited by Birgit Van Puymbroeck and Cedric Van Dijck...
On Cosmopolitanism, ‘Practical’ Essentialism and Living in the Meritocracy: An Interview with Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah
Interview by Tola Ositelu (MERLIT).
