Welcome to the MERLIT Theory & Methodology workshop homepage.
If you are interested in joining the workshops as a guest, please register for free via: merlit@vub.be
Please come prepared and ready to participate.
T&M workshop 22 October 2024 @ 9:30-15:30, Vergaderzaal RC (C4.09), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts to be discussed:
- The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel (2020)
'Talent and the Spectre of Uselessness': Chapter Two from The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett (2006)
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- A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 3 (WP3): Black Modernist Manifesto
T&M workshop 4 December 2024 @ 9:30-15:30, C.2.07B Lounge, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts to be discussed:
- Postcolonial writing and literary translation by Maria Tymozcko: a chapter from Translation Theory and Practice by S. Bassnett & H. Trivedi
- TBC
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- A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 4 (WP4): Postmigrant Novels of Formation (Bildungsroman)
