Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings @CLIC_VUB
CLIC is a research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Its 60+ members focus their research on various ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces.clic.research.vub.beJoined October 2023
📢 CLIC is delighted to announce that the preliminary programme for CLIC Day 2025: Journalism and Literature is now online! The conference will take place on 5 December 2025 with a keynote by John S. Bak (Université de Lorraine).
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💡 Join us for a lecture by Mandisa Mbali (University of Cape Town) exploring literary and artistic responses to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. The lecture will be held on 28 October at 15:00 (VUB Campus Etterbeek).
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🎊 Join us for our next WOLEC lunch lecture of this academic year on 23 September by Anna-Lena Eick! Title: "Dimensions of the (Post-)Digital in the Narrative Construction of Identity in Contemporary Anglophone, French, and German Novels".
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🗨️ CLIC is very happy to announce that the fall programme of the Study Group for Literature and Culture ('Werkgroep Literatuur en Cultuur' or WOLEC) is now available!
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📢 CLIC is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the workshop "Postmigration Beyond National Borders," organised by the Platform for Postcolonial Readings (VUB and Leiden University).
Deadline for Abstracts: 20 September 2025
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🆕 During the first half of the academic year, CLIC successfully developed its own comprehensive Data Management Plan.
Click the link below to learn more!
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🎉 We are happy to announce that Cedric Van Dijck's 'Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War' (Edinburgh UP) has won the BCLA First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature.
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📚 CLIC is happy to announce the publication 'Barge Life: On Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante"' (Punctum Books) by CLIC member Florian Deroo.
Click the link below for more info!
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📢 CLIC is pleased to invite you to the international workshop "Generic Change and Novelistic Experiment in 21st-Century Narratives" on 12 September 2025 from 10:00 until 17:00 at Usquare, Brussels.
Click the link below for more info!
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📢 CLIC is happy to announce the call for contributions for the symposium "Experimental, exophonic, ecstatic: performative writing & the expanded page", taking place on 13–14 November at Usquare, Brussels.
Deadline abstracts: 31 July 2025
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🎊 CLIC extends its heartfelt congratulations to Toon Van Mierlo and Jo Angouri on each being awarded a VUB Arts and Humanities Fellowship. We look forward to inspiring and fruitful collaborations with both fellows!
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📯 CLIC is offering up to four short (1-2 months) paid Grant Writing Residencies in the period August-December 2025 to prepare postdoctoral fellowship applications for FWO and/or MSCA for the 2026 calls.
Application deadline: 31 July 2025!
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📷 On 20 and 21 May 2025, CLIC had the pleasure of welcoming Brent Hayes Edwards, editor-in-chief of 'PMLA', to the VUB for a series of events on editing, writing, and academic publishing.
Click below to see some pictures!
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🖼️ Until August 2025, Bozar is hosting the exhibition 'When We See Us'.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a series on our LinkedIn and Instagram showcasing how our colleagues’ projects tie into the Bozar exhibition. Make sure to follow us!
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🖼️ Until August 2025, Bozar is hosting the exhibition 'When We See Us'.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing a series on pur LinkedIn and Instagram showcasing how our colleagues’ projects tie into the Bozar exhibition. Make sure to follow us!
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🎉 CLIC congratulates Diana Castilleja on the successful granting of the COST Action project 'COS-MICs: Comics and Sciences through Multidisciplinary Investigation and Collaboration', of which she is a member (main proposer: Virginie Giuliana).
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🎊 Join us for our last WOLEC lunch lecture of this academic year on 30 June! Teresa Kovacs (Indiana University) will give a lecture titled: "End Time/s? Theater, Catastrophe, and a Future in Ruins". This is a joint initiative with THALIA.
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📚 We are pleased to congratulate CLIC member Thomas Rommel and Helen Winter on the publication of their new book, 'Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations. An Introduction' (Series: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy, Springer).
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