Psalms, their translations and poetical rewritings are the focus of the SRN Literature without Borders' next conference in May 2026 in Leuven. The deadline for the CfP is 15 January 2026.
Category: WOG
Call for Papers: Medieval Texts and their Social Contexts: Performance, Performativity, Agents and Genres
Performance 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, ritual, materiality, and agency, they have provided fresh ways to historicise texts. This conference seeks to build on such work through a comparative lens, bringing together case studies from different settings, languages and genres, to ask how texts functioned in social contexts, considering their written manifestations as only one part of their lives.
Call for Papers: Literatures Without Borders
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. We invite scholars of all career stages to submit their proposals to info@relicsresearch.com by December 31st, 2024.
Call for Papers: Waterways and Literary Channels of the Pre-Modern World (Ghent University, 4-5 April 2024)
“The literature of ‘modern’ Europe is as intermingled with that of the Mediterranean as if the Rhine had received the waters of the Tiber.” E.R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Waterways, from great seas to local lakes…
New collaboration on transnational Yiddish and Ladino
On 23 February the Scientific Research Network Literatures without Borders set up a research group which will investigate the translational character of Yiddish, Ladino and other Jewish languages and cultures.
New grant (WOG) allows RELICS to strengthen ties with international partners for upcoming 5 years
RELICS was awarded a royal grant for the establishment of a Scientific Research Unit by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)! The so-called WOG, entitled “Literatures without Borders. A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationality” will allow RELICS to coordinate international collaboration for a period of 5 years (with possible extensions).
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