NEWS & EVENTS

The Anglicists at Vrije Universiteit, among them members of the MERLIT team, are looking forward to welcoming colleagues to Brussels for talks and debates on the (T

The Autumn School, designed within the EUTOPIA Network, aims to equip students with intercultural and international skills. It is a Research Seminar focused on Multilingualism in Brussels, as well as other multilingual and multicultural contexts.

As part of the numerous activities this year commemorating the centenary of James

II Congreso Internacional CROS 2024 /  II International CROS Conference 2024

CLIC colleagues Michael Rosenfeld, Sofie Vandepitte, Cedric Van Dijck and Birgit Van Puymbroeck took part in the annual  Day of Science at Muntpunt in Brussels on 26 November 2023 with activities on the history of magazines and journals from

Program now available!

This study day has a full program, featuring events like a workshop led by literary translator Bettina Bach and a bilingual reading by the author Fikry El Azzouzi and translator Ilja Braun.

The two-day international conference in Amsterdam and Brussels seeks to examine literature and the arts (painting, cinema, music) produced immediately after the rise of Nazism, during World War II, and following the Holocaust in order to challenge the urban topographical dynami

The conference "Transatlantic Flows: The Circulation of Literature between the Americas and Europe" examines the forms and functions of transnational literary circulation and literary actors in transfer between Europe and the Americas.

Orientalism 2.0.: Developments in Orientalist Criticism in the 21st Century

On May 25, 2023, join Thalia for their afternoon gathering at the Orpheus Institute (Korte Meer 12).

On Friday 28/04, we invite you to a Meet & Greet with Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf). 

 “Un ruido que ruge”:  La literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana del siglo XXI 

(English below) 

- - -

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Anthony Reed, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University

Georgina Colby, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature, University of Westminster

Dear colleagues, 

Guest lectures by Claudio Giunta (Emile-Lorand–course 2021-2022: Italian Literary Studies)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 28 March-1 April 2022

The goal of this conference is to bring the studies of narrative and music together.

Research into narrative and music is often an either/or story: either music cannot be narrative at all or it definitely is.

The Flemish Association for Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (VAL) brings together literary scholars who are active in Flanders and Brussels, inviting them to convene around themes of common interest and across linguistic, generational and institutional divides.

DOING BLACK ART IN BRUSSELS
a panel discussion with Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Lisette Ma Neza and Wetsi Mpoma

WED 7 July 2021 | 15.0016.30 | online & livestreaming @ Pilar (VUB Campus)

For several decades, authors are experimenting with the narrative and poetic potential of databases and generative grammars.

The next WOLEC session will take place on June 4 from 12:00 to 13:30 via Teams. Speaker Bette Dam (VUB) will present her doctoral research into contemporary war journalism.

Within the context of the Lorand Chair for Spanish, dr. Laura Folica from the Universitat oberta de Catalunya will deliver a lecture on :

Op 7 mei organiseert het Studiecentrum voor Experimentele Literatuur (SEL) een symposium over kunstkritiek van Belgische schrijvers (1945-1985). Het symposium kadert in de Raveel-retrospectieve die nu loopt in BOZAR en vindt plaats dankzij een subsidie van CLIC.

In this keynote lecture, I will invite the public to explore historical and recent pieces of digital literature through the prism of theories of intermediality, that examine the relations and interactions between medias inside a given work.

Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann (Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf)

On friday April 16, from 12h to 13h, WOLEC is organizing a reading session under the heading ‘Denkkaders in de 21^e-eeuwse literatuurwetenschap’ (“Theoretical Frameworks in 21st Century Literary Studies”).

The next WOLEC session will take place on 19 March from 12:00 to 13:30 via Teams.

Speaker Tessel Veneboer (UGent) will present her doctoral research: 

'The queer potential of fragmentation: sexuality and identity in Kathy Acker's work'.

Chiara Zampieri is a doctoral researcher at the MDRN Research Lab \ KU Leuven.

The workshop "Pantomime from 1800 till present. Genre – Aesthetics – Development" will take place online, via Microsoft Teams, on 3-4 December 2020. The conference languages are German and English.