CLIC is pleased to announce the symposium "Lost & Found: Archives and Multilingualism in the (Post)Colony", taking place on 12 January 2026 at the University of Liège and organized by Delphine Munos (ULiège), Arvi Sepp (VUB) and Cedric Van Dijck (VUB). Click here to register.
Programme
| 9.30-10.00 | Opening remarks - Delphine Munos (ULiège) |
| 10.00-11.00 | Keynote talk - Chair: Bénédicte Ledent (ULiège) Alison Donnell (University of Bristol): "From the stacks to the savannahs: journeys to recovery and lost Caribbean writers of the mid twentieth century" |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.30-12.30 | Christophe Mole (Sorbonne Nouvelle University): "Multilingual Resonance: Sound, Affect, and Literary Form" Marta Fossati (University of Milan): "The Local Reception of Translocal Narratives in Contemporary South African English Literature: Clarisse Charlier (ULiège): "Who are the 'French Women'? Intersectionality and Gender Representation in the 2022 French Presidential Electoral Rallies" |
| 12.30-13.00 | AFROPRESS Cedric Van Dijck, Jean Martinely Iata, Rikus van Eeden, and Tessa van Wijk (VUB): "The Little Magazine in Sub-Saharan Africa: Notes from the Field" |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15.45 | Tiago Silva (UFBA/VUB) and Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB): "Translating from the Paracolonial Archive: Finding Brazil in Anglophone Literature" Nicklas Hållén (Karlstad University): "Reading beyond the close/distant divide: Nairobi's formal and informal literary field" Delphine Munos (ULiège): "Forensic Forms" Christophe Dony (ULiège): "The strange case of bibliodiversity and multilingualism in 'global' scholarly communications databases" Daria Tunca (ULiège): "Online Bibliographies of Postcolonial Writers" |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee break |
| 16.15-17.15 | Keynote talk - Chair: Cedric Van Dijck (VUB) Ashleigh Harris (Uppsala University): "Monolingual archives and uncatalogued African literature: towards a method of multilingual archival practice" |