8-9 December 2025
Literary Events with Daniel Franco Sánchez
Join us for both a seminar and workshop led by Daniel Franco Sánchez, the founder of a small independent publisher in Spain, editorial graviola.
As part of the seminar, Daniel will discuss graviola’s work as a platform for creation and cultural mediation with migrant communities and how editorial practices can become a space of dialogue, archive, and collective identity construction. The following day, he will be leading a bilingual workshop (English/Spanish) on the theme of “Writing as belonging”.
Both the seminar and the workshop will be held at the KU Faculty of Arts in Leuven (Blijde-Inkomststraat, 21). They will take place in Het Salon (room 00.04), in the main Erasmushuis building.
Event organized by Sonja Faaren Ruud and Joana Roqué Pesquer / Poster designed by Joana Roqué Pesquer.
past events
30-31st of May 2024
COLLAB SYMPOSIUM 2024
Authorship in a Transnational and Global Context
The symposium “Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context” explores how collaboration and activist networks in contexts of migration redefine traditional notions of authorship.
Keynote speaker: Leila Essa (Utrecht University)
Poster designed by Anna Sofia Churchill
KU Leuven
6th of May 2024
2nd COLLAB Reading Group – Ethnography
The text we will be discussing James Clifford’s introduction to Writing Culture. The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (“Partial Truths”) published by University of California Press, 1986.
11:30h – KU Leuven – LETT 03.16
24-26th of April 2024
“Towards a Literary Anthropology of Migrant Aesthetics: Political and Contextual Forms of Transnational Collaboration”.
Paper presented by Núria Codina.
At Recentring Form(s) in and of the Margins. The Politics of Self-Reflexivity – Conference organized by Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
27th of March 2024
Guest Lecture by Ahmedur Chowdhury (Tutul) on Literary Activism and Displacement
Ahmedur Chowdhury, known as Tutul, will be joining us in Leuven for an open guest lecture organized by COLLAB.
Poster designed by Anna Sofia Churchill
16:00-18:00h – KU Leuven, MSI 01.23.
25th-26th of March 2024
“Rooting Displacement: ‘Exiled Writers Ink’ as a Case Study of Civic Mobilization through Transnational Collaborative Writing”
Paper presented by Núria Codina and Marialena Avgerinou
At the international conference Transnational Activisms Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production,
University College Dublin
21st-23rd of March 2024
“How will we read in the future?”
PhD Masterclass with Emer O’Sullivan and Rebecca Walkowitz
There will also be a companion exhibition titled Born translated. Reading comparatively, which will be open to the public from the 25th until the 29th of March, Monday to Friday, from 14.00pm to 18.00pm. The COLLAB team will showcase two pieces: a video installation made by Anna Sofia Churchill and Joana Roqué Pesquer, as well as a zine made by Marialena Avgerinou.
Ghent University
Posters designed by Maureen Hosay
1st March 2024
1st COLLAB Reading Group – Ethics and Literature
The article we will discuss is Writing and Rights (2014), by Rachel Potter and Lyndsey Stonebridge.
11:30h – KU Leuven – LETT 03.16
9th February 2024
Le tournant postmigratoire: enjeux et questionnements d’une mutation socio-culturelle et religieuse annoncée.
NarraMuse annual seminar
Université Catholique de Louvain
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