Past events

On 13 October, CLIC member Hannah Van Hove and Emilia Nielsen are organising a workshop on the Health Humanities.

On 2 October 2026 Friday, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) will jointly organise World Translation Day 2026.

  CLIC nodigt jullie graag uit voor de eerstvolgende  WOLEC -sessie die plaatsvindt op donderdag 1 oktober van 12:00 tot ten laatste 13:30 in C503.  Spreker Maxime Honinx ( VUB ) zal een lezing geven met als titel: “Researching Nineteenth-century Women Travel Writers, and the Pro...

  Dr. Isabella Villanova presents her project AFROPEMOTIONS at Meet Today’s Marie Curie during WiseNight, a special science festival taking place on 25 and 26 September 2026 in and around the Atomium in Brussels as part of the European Researchers’ Night.

MERLIT researcher Ceydanur Temurok is going to present her research at the symposium “Violence, Translation, and Testimonial Authority: Ethics and Transmediality in Life-Writing”, organised by the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC, VUB), in cooperation with CLIV (UGent/VUB) and CER...

On 17-18 September 2026, CLIC will be hosting the international symposium "Violence, Translation, and Testimonial Authority: Ethics and Transmediality in Life-Writing" in Brussels (Cloud 7 & Campus Etterbeek, room I.1.1).

Title: 'Manipulation, Norms, and Habitus in Ken Liu’s Translation of Chinese Science Fiction: A Sociological Approach'...

  MERLIT-associated researchers Tola Ositelu and Tiago Silva presented at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) conference at the University of Durham, 10-12 September 2026. The theme of this year's conference was Narrative, Power and the making of African Worlds.

In September, the annual ESPRit conference will take place in Brussels.

MERLIT researcher, Maxime Louise Honinx and MERLIT-associated researcher, Marjolein Goethals publish co-authored article on Lucy Atkinson's 'Recollections of Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants' (1863) in journal 'English Text Construction'.