Welcome to the MERLIT activities archive, where you will find a more extensive list of past events and outreach in which MERLIT and associated researchers have been involved.
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Past MERLIT Activities
MERLIT Researcher presents at the Francqui Closing Symposium: 'Poetics in an Age of Differences' 7 May 2026, Brussels
Practical info7 May 2026 09:00 - 7 May 2026 17:00MERLIT Researcher presents 'The two Cents of a Woman Travelling in Isabella Frances Romer’s "A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6"' at the University of Gent, Belgium
Practical info28 April 2026 14:00 - 28 April 2026 15:30MERLIT Researcher presents on Aphra Behn's 'The Rover' at KU Leuven, Tuesday 21 April 2026
Practical info21 April 2026 11:00 - 21 April 2026 13:00MERLIT Researcher presents 'Futures Beyond Boundaries...' at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Practical info1 April 2026 13:30 - 1 April 2026 15:00MERLIT Researcher presents 'American Aftermaths: A Journey Through the South' at the CSH, Freiburg
Practical info28 January 2026 19:00 - 28 January 2026 20:30MERLIT Researcher's guest lecture at Goethe University, Frankfurt - RESCHEDULED
Practical info22 January 2026 18:00 - 22 January 2026 20:00WOLEC Lunch Lecture Tiago Silva: "Brazil through English Eyes: From Pirates to Palmares"
Practical info20 January 2026 12:00 - 20 January 2026 13:30MERLIT Researcher participates in the CLIC Day 2025: Journalism & Literature
Practical info5 December 2025 09:00 - 5 December 2025 18:00MERLIT-Associated Researcher participated in the 3rd International Congress of Afro-descendant Literary and Cultural Studies, 21-24 October 2025
Practical info21 October 2025 09:00 - 24 October 2025 14:00Congratulations to Elizabeth Abena Osei on her recent publication
Practical info8 October 2025 00:00 -MERLIT Researchers participated in international conference 'From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration...' @ UC Louvain, Belgium
Practical info17 September 2025 09:00 - 19 September 2025 18:00MERLIT Conference 2025: Writing Meritocracy
Practical info18 September 2025 09:30 - 20 September 2025 15:30MERLIT-Associated Researcher participates in CHARM Doctoral Seasonal School in Ghent, August 2025
Practical info27 August 2025 08:30 - 29 August 2025 17:00MERLIT Visiting Professor Suzanne Scafe publishes new book: 'Reading to Resist'
Practical info18 July 2025 00:00 -MERLIT Researchers participate in ACLALS Conference 1-5 July 2025 @ the University of Nairobi, Kenya
Practical info1 July 2025 08:00 - 5 July 2025 11:30MERLIT Researchers participate in the 'Of Intermediality' Symposium June 2025
Practical info19 June 2025 09:00 - 20 June 2025 17:30Poetry Reading with Uhuru Phalafala
Practical info17 June 2025 17:30 - 17 June 2025 18:00MERLIT-Associated Researcher participates in GAPS Conference 29-31 May 2025 @ the University of Bielefeld, Germany
Practical info29 May 2025 11:00 - 31 May 2025 14:30Game Workshop Day: Sankofa’s Cosmic Adansikro w/ Lisa Abena Osei
Practical info30 May 2025 10:30 - 30 May 2025 15:00This was Caryl Phillips's reading of 'Another Man in the Street' at Passa Porta
Practical info6 May 2025 20:00 - 6 May 2025 22:00MERLIT Outreach: A Reading of “Another Man in the Street” by Caryl Phillips as part of the 'Ties That Bind Us' series
Practical info6 May 2025 20:00 - 6 May 2025 22:00Ties That Bind Us Lecture Monday 3 March 2025 w/ Prof. Dr. Tim Ingold
Practical info3 March 2025 17:30 - 3 March 2025 20:00WOLEC Lunch lecture Tuesday 4 February 2025 w/ Dr. Gibson Ncube
Practical info4 February 2025 12:00 - 4 February 2025 13:30BAAHE Conference 2024
Practical info13 December 2024 08:30 - 13 December 2024 17:00MERLIT Researchers participate in the 14th CLIC Day: Multilingualism and Literature
Practical info6 December 2024 09:00 - 6 December 2024 16:30“That I should report on these things”: Reading and Discussion with German writer Esther Dischereit
Practical info5 December 2024 18:00 - 5 December 2024 20:00MERLIT Researchers participate in EUTOPIA Autumn School - Multilingualism in Brussels: 12-15 November 2024
Practical info12 November 2024 09:00 - 15 November 2024 17:00A Kind of Home: A Radio Play Listening Event Commemorating James Baldwin's Centenary
Practical info21 October 2024 20:00 - 21 October 2024 21:30MERLIT Researchers participate in the VAL Symposium: 'Gender Anxieties?' - 28 November 2025
Practical info28 November 2025 08:30 - 28 November 2025 17:15MERLIT participates in Afroeurope@ns Conference: Twenty Years of Decolonising Knowledge
Practical info1 October 2024 16:00 - 4 October 2024 21:00
