Dear colleagues,
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.
Kind regards,
Ivo Wolsing
Simon Smets
On behalf of the Scientific Research Network Literatures Without Borders