Toine Heijmans inspires as the first author in the Krefeld literary summer

Toine Heijmans inspires as the first author in the Krefeld literary summer

Jul 8, 2022 at 4:38 p.m Literary summer in Krefeld : A Dutchman in search of freedom – Author Toine Heijmans: “I write about things I know.” Photo: Merlijn Doomernik /Literarischer Sommer/Merlijn Doomernik – – Krefeld The Dutchman Toine Heijmans opened the Krefeld Literary Summer with “Prstina”: a stimulating and beautiful evening in the courtyard … Read more

The Literary Summer starts with the Flemish author Stefan Hertmans

The Literary Summer starts with the Flemish author Stefan Hertmans

July 2, 2022 at 12:00 p.m Culture in Moenchengladbach : A festival of literature – Stefan Hertmans starts reading in the city library. Photo: Woitschützke, Andreas (woi) – – Moenchengladbach The Flemish author Stefan Hertmans and the writer Kristina Bilkau are on the program. In addition, a cycle of novels that has risen to cult … Read more

Literary summer comes to the region around Düsseldorf with German and Dutch authors

Literary summer comes to the region around Düsseldorf with German and Dutch authors

June 29, 2022 at 6:00 p.m Literary Summer : A reading festival from Amsterdam to Düsseldorf – Jessica Durlacher opens the Literary Summer. Photo: Billie Glaser – – Düsseldorf The Literary Summer begins on July 5th with a reading by Jessica Durlacher from her new novel “The Voice”. Until September, the German-Dutch reading festival offers … Read more

Poetry, fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations

Please scroll down for the English version “Let me walk to the edge of genre”: Ben Lerner: Poetry, fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations From June 28 to July 1, 2023, Paris, France Guest of honor: Ben Lerner Plenary lectures: Daniel Katz, University of Warwick, Royaume Uni Mary K. Holland, State University of New York, New … Read more

Networked journals and the Renaissance (France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Catalonia, 1890-1909)

Elisa Grilli will defend her thesis on Journals in networks and Renaissance (France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Catalonia, 1890–1909), under the direction of Evangelia Stead, before a jury composed of: – Guy Ducrey (Litt. Comparée, Un. De Strasbourg, rapporteur), – Anne-Rachel Hermetet (Litt. Comparée, Un. d’Angers, rapporteur), – Jean-Louis Haquette (Litt. Comparée, Un. de … Read more

mirror effects on contemporary Spanish-speaking stages

Family stories, national history: mirror effects on contemporary Spanish-speaking scenes Call for papers Colloquium organized by Fanny Blin (Gustave Eiffel University) and Anne Laure Feuillastre (Sorbonne University) Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2023 The significance of the family motif in dramatic representations from Antiquity has crystallized since the contemporary turn around the game of … Read more

Frédéric Chauvaud, The killers of women and the improbable addiction. An archeology of serial killers

Preface by Daniel Zagury. Serial killers today exert a morbid fascination: books, documentaries, series, films are devoted to them. Most often, they are presented as sinister characters who arose in the United States in the 1970s, then in France in the 1990s. The repetition of murders, the modus operandi, the identity of the “prey” are … Read more

“Did you say “authentic”?

Address: University of Liège, Amphitheater Wittert, Bât. A1 Place du XX-Août, 7 4000 Liège On May 5 and 6, 2022, the sixth edition of the international doctoral days of the Transitions research unit will be held at the University of Liège. Middle Ages and early modernity. Organized in partnership with the Center for Higher Studies … Read more

Patrick White, The Cockatoos (1974)

Transl. English (Australia) by Nathalie Pavec and Jean-Marc Victor Patrick White is to date the only Australian author to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This collection of six short stories, some of which are similar to short novels, and which he originally published in English in 1974, had until now remained unpublished in … Read more

Teaching hours on Golden Age Spain at the University of Toulon

To replace one of its teachers arrested by illness, the Spanish department of the UFR Letters of theUniversity of Toulon would need, for cth semester (February-June 2022) dunes) teacher on Golden Age Spain, primarily for the 3rd year of the License (L3), then for the L1, to work all or part of the following hours: … Read more