Past events

Title: 'Humour in Nineteenth-Century Poetry: A Model'...

  This longer workshop brings together core and associated researchers from the MERLIT group.

In May, the 8th biennial conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies, co-organized by several CLIC members, will take place in Brussels.

Campus Etterbeek, Building C, Room C2.07a...

On 19 May, CLIC is organizing a screening of the techno-choreographic performance 'Being River'. CLIC's 2025/2026 Lorand Chair Shuangyi Li will provide an introduction to the performance.

  "AFROPEMOTIONS": Rethinking Emotions, Inequality, and Resistance through Afropean Women’s Fiction In her presentation, Isabella Villanova shares insights from her current research project on the emotional entanglements that shape the experiences of Afro-descendant women in 21st-century Afro...

  MERLIT researcher, Ceydanur Temurok participated in the annual GAPS (Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) conference at Osnabrück University, Germany from 14-16 May 2026. The theme of this year's conference was Postcolonial Transfers: Translation, Transition, Transformation .

  On Friday 15 May 2026 MERLIT researcher, Maria Pace Aquilina presented 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.