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 conceptual framework could be devised that better characterizes, defines, and understands premodern literary transnationalism.
Keynote speaker will be Prof. dr. Karla Mallette (U-Michigan), whose work on premodern literary cosmopolitanism (e.g. Lives of the Great Languages, 2021) forms an important cornerstone of the current scholarly debate.
We seek 250-word proposals for 30-minute papers that examine the phenomena of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism in premodern Arabic, Byzantine-Greek, Hebrew-Yiddish-Ladino and Latin literatures, as well as their interactions with various vernaculars. More information can be found on our website: https://literatureswithoutborders.com/2024/12/05/call-for-papers-literatures-without-borders/.
We invite scholars of all career stages to submit their proposals to info@relicsresearch.com by December 31st, 2024.
Selected participants will be notified by the end of January 2025.
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Ivo Wolsing & Simon Smets
On behalf of the Scientific Research Network Literatures Without Borders.