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The Study Group for Literature and Culture (Werkgroep Literatuur en Cultuur or WOLEC) offers lunch lectures in which our speakers tackle a broad range of subjects and methodologies. We host a variety of modules, from reading sessions to lectures to discussions, etc. Each year, we receive a number of guest lecturers and young researchers from the VUB and beyond. The aims of the study group are to provide our speakers with the opportunity to present their work in an informal context, and to allow researchers to exchange views with their fellow researchers as well as with more experienced colleagues.
In addition to the lunch lectures, this academic year, WOLEC wants to devote five sessions to creative writing.
These sessions are an invitation to CLIC members to join a small, permanent group whose members, meet up five times over several months to reflect on the creative essay as well as to write their own text belonging to this subgenre. The topic of their essay may or may not be related to their literary research. A first, introductory session will take place on 19 November at 12:00 in room 5C402.
Past creative writing sessions:
21/2 Janna Aerts (VUB), Brenda Bikoko (VUB) Anthony Manu (VUB), Hannah Van Hove (VUB), Carolien Van Neerom (VUB)
- Creatief schrijven: bespreking essays
28/3 Els Moors
- Creatief schrijven
26/4 Els Moors
- Creatief schrijven
More information about the program (in Dutch) can be found in the attached invitation.
Upcoming WOLEC sessions:
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20/05/2022 |
Hans Demeyer (UCLondon) |
Seminar over de hedendaagse roman met tussenkomsten van Stefan Clappaert (VUB), Jade Thomas (VUB), Helena Van Praet (UCLouvain), Florian Deroo (UGent/VUB), Dag Houdmont (ULB), Senne Schraeyen (VUB) & Hannah Cornelus (UGent). |
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Materials here.
Past WOLEC Sessions:
| 01/04/2022 | Senne Schraeyen (VUB) | Roger Raveel: Providing a New Vision on the Complex Rural Landscape | |
| 23/03/2022 | Katrien Vanhamel (VUB) | De Expo 58 in de kunstkritieken van Jan Walravens | |
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24/02/2022 |
Hannah Cornelus (UGent) |
Ecological Interconnectivity in Contemporary French Fiction | |
| 27/01/2022 | Jade Thomas (VUB) | '(Re)Staging/Playing Slavery in the 21st-Century: A Case-Study of Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play (2018)' | |
| 16/12/2021 | Stefan Clappaert & Hannah Van Hove (VUB) | Creatief schrijven: oefeningen | |
| 10/12/2021 | Stefan Clappaert & Anthony Manu (VUB) | Denkkaders in de 21e-eeuwse literatuurwetenschap: Peter Stockwell - Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction (2002) | |
| 19/11/2021 | Anthony Manu (VUB) | Creatief schrijven: inleiding | |
| 17/06/2021 |
Alexandra Saemmer (Paris 8) Master Class by the CLIC Lorand Chair Intermediality |
Paper, Web and Stage: Cross-Medial Interactions between Database and Narrative | |
| 4/06/2021 | Bette Dam (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) | The narratives of contemporary war journalism | |
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17/05/2021 |
Laura Folica (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Master Class by the Emile Lorand Chair in Spanish Literature |
Social Networks of the Past. Mapping Hispanic and Lusophone Modernity through Literary Translation in Periodicals |
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| 10/05/2021 |
Ezzahra Benlahoussine (Mohamed V University)
Irina Stanova (VUB) |
City-as-Text, Text-as-City: Mestizage and Hybridity in Juan Goytisolo’s text Makbara
Containing an Epidemic: Reassessing W. S. Maugham’s The Painted Veil and Its Film Adaptations |
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16/04/2021 |
Stefan Clappaert & Anthony Manu (VUB)
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Denkkaders in de 21e-eeuwse literatuurwetenschap: leessessie Hans Demeyer & Sven Vitse - Affectieve crisis, literair herstel (2021) | |
| 19/03/2021 | Tessel Veneboer (UGent) | The queer potential of fragmentation: sexuality and identity in Kathy Acker's work | |
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8/12/2020 |
Chiara Zampieri (KUL) |
Modern Etruscans |
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| 18/2/2020 | Moderator: Carolien Von Nerom (VUB) | Roundtable: Defining Narrative | |
| 18/12/2019 | Rachele Gusella (VUB) | “Every good artist makes their audience uncomfortable”: Street poetry as an expression of the political and social crisis in Western Europe | |
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21/11/2019 |
Giovanni Pietro Vitali (University College Cork/Marie Curie Research Fellow) |
Last Letters from the World Wars. Analysing Texts of Conflict through a Digital Approach |
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15/5/2019 |
Hannah Van Hove (VUB/FWO) |
‘Belonging nowhere’?: British experimental women writers and the politics of marginalisation |
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14/2/2019 |
Mathias Meert (VUB/FWO) |
Pantomime and/as Literature: Text, Theatricality, Genre |
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23/1/2019 |
Helena Van Praet (VUB) |
Materiality and Textuality in the Work of Anne Carson |
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18/12/2019 |
Anthony Manu (VUB) |
Humour in nineteenth-century lyric (H. Heine, A. de Musset, L. Eichrodt, G. Nadaud, W.S. Gilbert, P.A. De Génestet, F. HaverSchmidt and C. S. Calverley): adaptation and application of recent models for textual humour |
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21/11/2018 |
Andrea Penso (VUB/FWO) |
The Italian Reception of English Novels During the Long 18th Century: A Digital Approach |
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10/10/2018 |
Carolien Van Nerom (VUB) |
Meaningful Minimalism: Narrative Strategies in Operas by Philip Glass |
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13/6/2018 |
Thomas Thoelen (VUB/FWO) |
The ‘Techno-Logical’ Voice of Writing in Beckett’s The Unnamable |
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3/5/2018 |
Zhuyun Song (VUB) |
Chinese European literature in the theoretic field of postcolonial literature |
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14/2/2018 |
Charles Derre & Michel De Gruijter (DBNL) |
DBNL: Aspecten en functionaliteiten voor onderzoekers en docenten |
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4/12/2017 |
Carolien Van Nerom (VUB) |
Reading session: Philip Glass – from novel to minimalist opera |
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8/11/2017 |
Janna Aerts (VUB) |
Reading session: Henri Lefebvre. ‘Work and Leisure in Everyday Life’ (1958) |
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11/05/2017 |
Stéphane Hirschi (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis) |
Chanson et intermédialité |
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27/04/2017 |
Annelies Augustyns (Universiteit Antwerpen) |
Urban Experience in the Third Reich: A Topopoetic Analysis of German-Jewish Autobiographical Literature from Breslau |
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01/03/2017 |
Alyssa Verhees (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
Ekfrasis voorbij: het kunstwerk als ding in het oeuvre van Stefan Hertmans |
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16/02/2016 |
Marc Farrant (Goldsmiths, University of London) |
“With so many millions of souls to count [...] what does it matter if they miss one?”: The Word of God in Coetzee’s Jesus Novels |
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16/01/2016 |
Atinati Mamatsashvili (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)/Staatsuniversiteit Ilia Tbilisi) |
Déconstruction de l’imaginaire antisémite : Klee, Heartfield, Beucler, Thomas
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08/12/2016 |
Audrey De Landtsheer and Ellen Voets (VUB) |
Presentation of Master Theses: ‘Evolution of the Portrayal of Women in Rewritings of Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard”’ and ‘Differences and similarities in the portrayal of women in fairy tales written by female authors across the ages’ |
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24/11/2016 |
Julio Monteiro (University of Brasília) |
Literature, History, Memory: The Historical Novel in Suriname |
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04/11/2016 |
Jan Vanvelk (KU Leuven) |
The Animal, the Alien, the Machine: The Rhetoric of Humanity in H .G Wells |
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14/04/2016 |
Mareike Sera (Humboldt Universität Berlin) |
Next to nothing. Exhaustion and abundance in Jan Švankmajer's The Fall of the House of Usher (1980) and the writing of Henri Michaux |
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15/03/2016 |
Bart Vervaeck (KU Leuven) |
Een greep op het ongrijpbare. Over unnatural narratology |
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03/03/2016 |
Douglas Atkinson (VUB) |
De rol van stilistische en conceptuele negativiteit in het werk van Beckett |
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14/01/2016 |
Bram Lambrecht (KU Leuven) |
Ik, jij, wij. De morele exemplariteit van Alice Nahons poëzie |
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10/12/2015 |
Claus Peter Neumann (Universidad de Zaragoza) |
Loving the Goat: Edward Albee’s The Goat; or, Who is Sylvia as representative American tragedy |
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19/11/2015 |
David Martens (KULeuven / MDNR) |
Autoportrait de l'écrivain en vis-à-vis. L'entretien dans les collections de monographies de poche illustrées "Qui êtes-vous?" (La Manufacture) et "Les Contemporains" (Le Seuil) |
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29/10/2015 |
François Staring (VUB) |
Lezen hoe luisteraars verbeelden: associatieve beschrijving in de muziekroman van de twintigste eeuw |
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06/10/2015 |
Birgit Neumann (Universität Düsseldorf) |
Postcolonial Ekphrasis and Counter-Visions in Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’s Hound – Contact Zones, Contests and Translations |
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03/06/2015 |
Lesley Penné (VUB) |
Grenslandschap in een land zonder grenzen - Heimat in de literatuur van de Duitstalige Gemeenschap |
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21/04/2015 |
Janine Hauthal (VUB) |
Fictions of Europe: Transnational Discourses in Contemporary British Literature |
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27/03/2015 |
Nele Wynants (ULB/UA) |
Philosophical Toys: Optical illusion at Play in Theatre and Performance |
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19/02/2015 |
Audrey Garcia (Université Montpellier 3, RIRRA21) |
Posture(s) transmédiale(s) au prisme du cas Cocteau |
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27/01/2015 |
Anneleen Van Hertbruggen (UA) |
Het nationaalsocialisme als politieke religie. Religieus taalgebruik in nazi-propagandapoëzie |
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28/12/2014 |
Sophie Zimmer (Leo Baeck Institute London) |
Jewish Topographies in post-1989 Berlin |
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27/11/2014 |
Lieselot De Taeye (VUB/FWO) |
Experimenteel realisme: documentaire aspecten in het Nederlandse en Vlaamse proza van de jaren '60 en '70 |
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22/4/2014 |
Vik Doyen (KU Leuven) |
Close reading of genetische tekstkritiek? Hoe bestudeer je het literaire werk van Malcolm Lowry? |
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17/3/2014 |
Kila van der Starre - Arno Van Vlierberghe (MaNaMa Literatuurwetenschap) |
‘Een beminnelijke prater op visite.’ Nederlandstalige poëzie op geluidsdragers; |
De ritmische impuls als kloppend hart in ‘Messiah’ (C.C. Krijgelmans) en ‘Het boek ik’ (Bert Schierbeek) |
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20/2/2014 |
Guy Dugas (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier III) |
Albert Memmi et le post-colonial au Maghreb (1957-2004) |
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10/2/2014 |
Thomas Ernst (Universität Duisburg-Essen) |
Literatuur en subversie: politiek schrijven in het hedendaagse Duitstalige proza |
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17/1/2014 |
Kristiaan Versluys (UGent) |
Het trauma van 9/11 in de Amerikaanse literatuur |
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2/12/2013 |
Bart Keunen (UGent) |
Sleutelbegrippen in de narratologie: de ‘chronotoop’ |
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31/10/2013 |
Mathias Meert (VUB/FWO) |
In gesprek met Beer-Hofmann. Auteursbeeld en schrijversbezoek als paratekst en ‘Erinnerungsraum’ |
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14/5/2013 |
Chiel Kattenbelt (Universiteit Utrecht) |
‘The Experience of Temporality in Time-Based Media’ |
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15/4/2013 |
Claire Swyzen (VUB) |
‘Textimonies’ in Documentary Theatre: From Authentic ‘Character’ to Post-Human ‘Data Body’ |
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11/02/2013 |
Lars Bernaerts (VUB/UGent) |
Sleutelbegrippen in de narratologie: ‘bewustzijnsvoorstelling’ |
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