Past events

  MERLIT researcher, Ceydanur Temurok will be participating in the annual GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) conference at Osnabrück University, Germany from 14-16 May 2026.

  On Friday 15 May 2026 MERLIT researcher, Maria Pace Aquilina will present her paper 'Theatres of Privacy: Hidden Interiors, Erotic Surveillance, and Spatial Politics in William Wycherley's The Country Wife' as part of the 36th International SEDERI conference.

On 12 May, CLIC and BCLS are organizing a Career Day for early-career researchers.

  MERLIT researcher, Maria Pace Aquilina made an intervention at the Closing Symposium (Greene Francqui): Poetics in An Age of Differences on Thursday 07 May 2026.

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room 5C.03

  On 28 April 2026, MERLIT Researcher, Maxime Honinx discussed how Isabella Frances Romer attempts to avoid 'the squeezing of a squeezed lemon' in her 1846 travelogue, A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6.

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room 5C.03 

  On Tuesday 21 April 2026, MERLIT researcher, Maria Pace Aquilina gave a guest lecture at KU Leuven on gender anxiety and female agency, focusing on Aphra Behn's The Rover.

  On 1 April 2026 MERLIT researcher, Josephine Ofei gave a public lecture at the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), based partly on her research on heroes in 21st-century Afrofuturist mediascapes.

On 31 March, Professor Premesh Lalu will be giving a lecture titled "Art effects: sensory education in uncertain times" as part of the Ties That Bind Us series.

On 26 March, Chakib Ararou will give a presentation on Moroccan magazine culture titled "Al-Thaqāfa al-Jadīda : Cultural Autonomy and Arab Embeddedness in Morocco’s Years of Lead"...

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room 5C.03