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.
Next T&M Workshop
Theory & Methodology workshop with Dr. Gibson Ncube (University of Stellenbosch, S.Africa) - 6 February 2025, 10:00-15:30 @ the VUB/ULB Learning & Innovation Centre (LIC), Meeting Room 4.05 (4th Floor)
Texts:
- Tallie, T.J. "Introduction" and "'To Become Useful and Patriotic Citizens': Education and Belonging" Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa London/Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. p. 1-14, 151-182
- Ncube, Gibson. "Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(1) (2021): 51-66 (https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2020.1792277)
- A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 5 (WP5): Heroes in 21st Century Afrofuturist Mediascapes
February's workshop will be in collaboration with the FORAGENCY Research Group, led by Prof. Benoit Henriet.
Past T&M Workshops
T&M workshop 4 December 2024 @ 10:00-15:30, C.2.07B Lounge, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts discussed:
- Apter, Emily. S. "Introduction", "Global Translatio: The "Invention" of Comparative Literature, Istanbul 1933" and "Nothing is Translatable" The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature New Jersey: Princeton, 2006. p. 3-11, 41-64 and 85-93.
- Tymozcko, Maria. "Postcolonial writing and literary translation" Post-colonial Translation Theory and Practice Eds Bassnett, S. & Trivedi, H. London: Routledge, 1999. p.19-40
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- A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 4 (WP4): Postmigrant Novels of Formation (Bildungsroman)
T&M workshop 22 October 2024 10:00-15:30 with Prof. Suzanne Scafe, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts discussed:
- Sandel, Michael J. "Great Because Good", "The Rhetoric of Rising" & "Success Ethics" The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. p.34-58, 59-80 and 113-152.
Sennett, Richard. "Talent and the Spectre of Uselessness" The Culture of the New Capitalism by New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. p.84-130
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A progress report on MERLIT Work Package 3 (WP3): Modernist Manifesto in the Black Atlantic World
26 June 2024, 10:00-15:30 with Prof. Therese Ennin and Prof. Suzanne Scafe, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
Texts discussed:
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Class" The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity New York: Liveright, 2019. p. 135-185
- Young, Michael. The Rise of the Meritocracy. London: Penguin Books, 1958
