The MERLIT team is pleased to announce its participation in the forthcoming Ties that Bind Us event; a reading and discussion with award-winning writer, Caryl Phillips (St Kitts / UK) on 6 May 2025, at 20:00, at Passa Porta in Brussels. Registration will open in February 2025.
Caryl Phillips' new novel Another Man in the Street, to be published in January 2025, engages many themes that cut across diverse MERLIT projects; migration, individualism, how society defines achievement and the reality of unlevel playing fields and constraints that complicate the ready promises of meritocratic narratives.
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, the novel follows Victor, a Caribbean-born, aspiring journalist chasing his dreams in England, only to find himself navigating unseen borders within borders. Through vivid characters and deeply human dilemmas, Phillips explores the ties that bind — and sometimes break — when people cross oceans, cities, and thresholds of the self.
MERLIT researcher, Prof. dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker is co-organiser of the Ties that Bind Us series, alongside Prof. dr. Benoit Henriet (History) and Prof. dr. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stuckmans (Art History).
Click here for more information about the event and Ties that Bind Us.
