Past MERLIT Events
Practical info24/06/2024 - 16:30 - 24/06/2024 - 18:30"Speaking of Identity" - Guest Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (NYU)
VUB Building I, Room I.203 A lecture in the series “Ties that Bind Us”
Practical info25/06/2024 - 12:00 - 25/06/2024 - 13:30The Life and Dea(r)th of Ghanaian Popular Fiction
WOLEC-session, 12:00-13:30, VUB Building Room 5C.03
Practical info22/10/2024 - 09:30 - 22/10/2024 - 15:30MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop October 2024
All are welcome. Register for free and come ready to participate: merlit@vub.be
For more information, please follow the above link.
Practical info04/12/2024 - 09:30 - 04/12/2024 - 15:30MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop December 2024
All are welcome. Register for free and come ready to participate: merlit@vub.be
For more information, please follow the above link.
Practical info06/02/2025 - 10:00 - 06/02/2025 - 15:30MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop February 2025 w/ Dr. Gibson Ncube
All are welcome. Register for free and come ready to participate: merlit@vub.be
For more information, please follow the above link.
Practical info07/05/2025 - 11:30 - 07/05/2025 - 15:30MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop May 2025
All are welcome. Register for free and come ready to participate: merlit@vub.be
For more information, please follow the above link.
Practical info18/06/2025 - 10:30 - 18/06/2025 - 15:30MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop June 2025 w/ Anca Parvulescu
All are welcome. Register for free and come ready to participate: merlit@vub.be
For more information, please follow the above link.
Upcoming MERLIT Events
Practical info04/03/2026 - 10:00 - 04/03/2026 - 15:00MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop w/ Prof. dr. Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick)
Prof. Dr. Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick) to join the MERLIT Theory and Methodology Workshop on 4 March 2026.
Practical info05/03/2026 - 10:00 - 05/03/2026 - 12:00Colonial Politics, Colonial Poetics? Reading Early Modern Travel Writing, Then and Now
On 5 March, Prof. Dr. Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick) will give a guest lecture at VUB on some of the key conceptual and methodological challenges involved in studying travel writing.
Practical info05/03/2026 - 14:00 - 05/03/2026 - 17:00Workshop: Travel Studies: Theories, Methods, Materials
CLIC workshop on theoretical and methodological developments in travel studies, with Prof. Natalya Din-Kariuki.