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Call for Papers: Psalms and Paraphrases
Psalms, their translations and poetical rewritings are the focus of the SRN Literature without Borders’ next conference on 12-13 May 2026 in Leuven. The deadline for the CfP is 15 January 2026.
Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres
Conference Date: 13–14 November 2025Location: Sint-Baafshuis – Room 1.07. Biezekapelstraat 2, Ghent, Belgium.Opposite the ibis hotel, next to the cathedral. Bikes via Kapittelstraat entrance.Registration via: https://event.ugent.be/registration/medievalperformance TopicPerformance and performativity have proved to be highly productive concepts for understanding the social worlds of medieval texts in diverse literary, linguistic and historical contexts. Through associable notions of orality, aurality, gesture,…
Literatures without Borders
Pre-modern literary transnationalism from a historical-comparative perspective The international Scientific Research Group (SRN) ‘Literatures without Borders’, funded by the Research-foundation Flanders (FWO) organizes a conference on premodern transnational literatures in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2025. The conference aims to investigate how transnational/cosmopolitan literatures function, and if a…
Waterways and Literary Channels of the Pre-Modern World
This workshop explores the various appearances and meanings of water in pre-modern literary cultures. What role did the geography of waterways play in the transregional movement of authors, texts, styles, and poetics? What commonalities and differences can we identify across pre-modern literary canons, including those in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and other vernaculars? How does…
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Latin-Greek Code-Switching in Early Modernity
The first workshop funded by “Literatures without Borders” will take place in Leuven (Belgium) from 13 to 14 October 2022. The event, organised by William Barton and Raf Van Rooy, is a collaboration between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies and the University of Leuven. The exchange will deal with linguistic and literary questions regarding…
Reading Group in Spring 2021
The Scientific Research Network organizes a monthly reading group in the spring of 2021 on the concept of transnationalism. You are cordially invited to join us. The aim of the reading group is to lay the theoretical groundwork for a first workshop on the conceptual framework for premodern literary transnationalism. We will read theoretical literature…