Looking back at the 2025 CLIC Day: Journalism and Literature
This was the annual CLIC Day on journalism and literature...
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Looking back at the Sounds of a Lifetime conference
This was the international conference Sounds of a Lifetime...
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MERLIT Member interviewed about latest book 'Reading to Resist'
MERLIT member, Prof. Dr. Suzanne Scafe is interviewed by Alecia McKenzie about her new book 'Reading to Resist'...
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'Revista de letras', vol. 1, n° 44, 2025: 'Transatlantic Flows: The Circulation of Literature between the Americas and Europe'
edited by Arvi Sepp, Luana Ferreira de Freitas, Marie-Hélène Catherine Torres and Walter Carlos Costa...
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Looking back at the VAL Symposium 2025
This was the VAL symposium 2025.
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Metamorphoses. Tracing the Translator in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830
edited by Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert and Guy Rooryck...
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Now online: WOLEC Spring Programme 2026
The spring programme of the Study Group for Literature and Culture ('Werkgroep Literatuur en Cultuur' or WOLEC) is now available!
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MERLIT Researcher published in African Studies Quarterly
MERLIT Researcher, Josephine Ofei's review of Isaac Vincent Joslin's 'Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions' appears in African Studies Quarterly December 2025 edition.
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BIRMM Op-Ed - Narratives of Mobility and Care: Women of ‘Windrush’ and Migratory Ambivalence
This op-ed is part of a series of articles published by VUB-BIRMM research group, commemorating International Migrants' Day 2025. This piece discusses the UK establishment's conflicted relationship with migration, using the late 2010s so-called Windrush/Home Office scandal as a case study.
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Interview with Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker about MERLIT
Against the backdrop of education budget cuts, Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker was interviewed by VUB about her project MERLIT.
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‘The cuts pose a huge threat to our meritocratic principles’ - Interview with MERLIT Researcher in VUB Newsletter December 2025
'...Professor Eva Ulrike Pirker's MERLIT research examines how ideas about merit and success have evolved over the centuries in literature...'...
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Reconnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change
edited by Thomas Mantzaris...
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