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 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 Post-colonial Translation Theory and Practice (1999) by S. Bassnett & H. Trivedi
- The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006) by Emily Apter
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- A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 4 (WP4): Postmigrant Novels of Formation (Bildungsroman)
Past T&M Workshops
T&M workshop 22 October 2024 9:30-15:30 with Prof. Suzanne Scafe, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts 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
26 June 2024, 9:30-15:30 with Prof. Therese Ennin and Prof. Suzanne Scafe, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts discussed:
- The Class chapter from The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity (2018) by Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah & The Rise of the Meritocracy (1958) by Michael Young.
