Past events

Lorand Chair French Literature 2025-26 - CLIC welcomes Dr. Nicolas Bianchi

3 November 2025 11:00 - 5 December 2025 13:00

Title: "Lire Céline"...

Wolec Lunch Lecture Isabella Villanova: “‘AFROPEMOTIONS’: Rethinking Emotions, Inequality, and Resistance through Afropean Women’s Fiction”

30 October 2025 12:00 - 30 October 2025 13:30

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room 5C.03

MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop October 2025 w/ the AFROPRESS group and Prof. dr. Mandisa Mbali (UCT)

30 October 2025 10:30 - 30 October 2025 15:30

All are welcome. Register for free by 23 October 2025 via the following email address: merlit@vub.be The workshop will take place at the VUB/ULB Learning & Innovation Centre (LIC), Melbourne meeting room 4.05 (4th Floor) Pleinlaan/Boulevard de la Plaine 2, 1050 Brussels.

Lecture by Mandisa Mbali: "Methods at An End? AIDS, Literary Ethnography and Multimodal History in South Africa"

28 October 2025 15:00 - 28 October 2025 16:30

Join us for a lecture by Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town) exploring literary and artistic responses to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

MERLIT-Associated Researcher participated in the 3rd International Congress of Afro-descendant Literary and Cultural Studies, 21-24 October 2025

21 October 2025 09:00 - 24 October 2025 14:00

MERLIT - associated researcher, Tola Ositelu participated in the third International Congress of Afrodescendant Literary and Cultural Studies, 21-24 October 2025 @ the University of Alcalá, Madrid.

Guest Lecture by Caroline Kita: "The Echo Effect: Radio Drama’s Intra- and Intermedial References"

20 October 2025 10:30 - 20 October 2025 11:30

as part of the FWO senior research project 'Broadcast Biographies'...

WOLEC Lunch Lecture Joan Anzazi Mwangovya: "A Double Look: How Trickster Narratives Contribute to Demystifying the Other through Intercultural Dialogue"

16 October 2025 12:00 - 16 October 2025 13:30

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room 5C.03

Past events

Lorand Chair French Literature 2025-26 - CLIC welcomes Dr. Nicolas Bianchi

Wolec Lunch Lecture Isabella Villanova: “‘AFROPEMOTIONS’: Rethinking Emotions, Inequality, and Resistance through Afropean Women’s Fiction”

MERLIT Theory & Methodology Workshop October 2025 w/ the AFROPRESS group and Prof. dr. Mandisa Mbali (UCT)

Lecture by Mandisa Mbali: "Methods at An End? AIDS, Literary Ethnography and Multimodal History in South Africa"

MERLIT-Associated Researcher participated in the 3rd International Congress of Afro-descendant Literary and Cultural Studies, 21-24 October 2025

Guest Lecture by Caroline Kita: "The Echo Effect: Radio Drama’s Intra- and Intermedial References"

WOLEC Lunch Lecture Joan Anzazi Mwangovya: "A Double Look: How Trickster Narratives Contribute to Demystifying the Other through Intercultural Dialogue"

THALIA-Workshop "Children as Performers on Stage"

MERLIT Jour Fixe October 2025

Programme Online: “Postmigration Beyond National Borders” 25th meeting of the Platform for Postcolonial Readings

Public PhD Defense Claire Swyzen

Congratulations to Elizabeth Abena Osei on her recent publication