MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop w/ Prof. dr. Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick)

                                                          (c) Elisa Calvet

All are welcome but should register and come prepared. To register and obtain copies of the assigned texts please write to merlit@vub.be by 27 February.

• Din-Kariuki, Natalya and van Meersbergen Guido. 'Travel Studies and the Decolonial Turn', Studies in Travel Writing 27.2 (2024), 77-93.
• Saïd, Edward W. 'The Scope of Orientalism', Orientalism. Penguin Books, 2003. pp. 31–92. (Reading the introduction is also recommended but not mandatory)

Prof. dr. Din-Kariuki will also be giving a lecture at VUB on 5 March 2026, 10-12 a.m. on the subject of 'Colonial Politics, Colonial Poetics? Reading Early Modern Travel Writing, Then and Now'.

 For more information on the T&M workshop, please follow the link.

 To register for the lecture, please visit the event website.