Day 1. Thursday 30th May 2024
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Registration open |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45 – 10:45 | Keynote: “Good Immigrants” Across Contexts: Authorial Collaboration In/Between/Beyond Germany and Britain prof. Leila Essa (Utrecht) |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel 1 – Diasporic Networks, Agency and Translation among Minorities (chair: Anna Sofia Churchill) Talk 1: Eva-Maria Winderberger (Trier) – Towards a Politics of Visibility and Awareness: British East and South East Asian Artist Collaborations and Agendas Talk 2: Renata Schellenberg (Mount Allison) – Transnational Authorship, Courage and Creativity: The Case of Dubravka Ugrešić Talk 3: Hannah Fox (Leeds) – Bibliomigrancy and Authorship in Hwang Yeo Jung’s The Specters of Algeria |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Panel 2 – Graphic Narratives in Contexts of Migration and Indigenous People (chair: Maaheen Ahmed) Talk 4: Alessia Mangiavillano (Coventry) & Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Gent) – Digital Comics, Authorship, and Migration: Matt Huyn’s ‘The Boat’ (2015) and ‘Cabramatta’ (2019) Talk 5: Inge Lanslots & Natalie Dupré (KU Leuven) – Transnational Authorship, Translation and Emotive Immediacy. The Case of Graphic Journalism on Migration Talk 6: An Van Hecke (KU Leuven) – Collaborative Authorship in Comics in Indigenous Languages: The case of ‘El día que no amaneció en Soki’ |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Round Table (chair: Jack Mc Martin) Practicing Collaboration in Translation and the Arts (with Pieter Boulogne, Tijana Petrović & Orsolya Réthelyi) |
| 17:15 – 18:45 | Panel 3 – Digital Tellings in Multilingual and Transnational Settings (chair: Joana Roqué Pesquer) Talk 7: Zeynep Tüfekcioglu (Dortmund) – Digital Literature, Writing Collective and Networks Muslim Feminist Solidarity: The Case of the Reçel Blog Talk 8: Tekla Mecsnóber (Groningen) – Popular Translingual Authorship in the Global Anglophone Literary Ecosystem: Complicating Power Relations |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Day 2. Friday 31st May 2025
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Panel 4 – Postmemory and Remediation of Exile (chair: Pieter Vermeulen) Talk 9: Cynthia Gabbay (Humboldt) – A New Hebraic Diaspora: Transnational Literary Networking and Collaborative Counter-Cultures Talk 10: Orsolya Réthelyi (Budapest) – Translating, Remediating and Reflecting on the Poetry of the Holocaust: Authorship and Collaboration in the Dialogue between Peripheral Languages around the ‘The Bor Notebook’ of Miklós Radnóti Talk 11: Alice Lacoue-Labarthe (Picardie/VUB) & Christine Meyer (Picardie) & Arvi Sepp (VUB) – Co-Writing the Exile Condition: Renarration and Remediation as Shared Authorship in Contemporary “Refugee Literature” |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break Exhibition Display by Tijana Petrović & COLLAB Team |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Collaborative Artistic Workshop (chair: Elke Brems) Maud Vanhauwaert, KU Leuven’s Writer in Residence |
| 12:30 – 14.30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Panel 5 – Transnational Authorship in Colonial and Precarious Contexts (chair: Marialena Avgerinou) Talk 12: Andrew Daily (Memphis) – ‘The Same Story:’ Transnational Collaborative Authorship and Epic Theatre in Édouard Glissant’s ‘Histoire de Nègre’ Talk 13: Suzanne Manizza Roszak (Groningen) – The Transnational Authorship of Beryl Gilroy: Dutch Colonial History and “Anglo-Caribbean-British” Fiction Talk 14: Ronan Crowley (Frankfurt) – ‘A Factory’: Migrant Networks in the Writing of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Panel 6: Collaborative Forms of Refugee Literature (chair: Tom Toremans) Talk 15: Jeanette Franza (Binghamton) – Reimagining the Refugee-Anthologies in Dialogue Talk 16: Irene Praga Guerro (Birkbeck) – Collaborative Journalism to Counter-act how Migrants/Refugees are Depicted in the Media/Press |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Closing Debate (Anna Sofia Churchill & Núria Codina) |
– Venue: MSI 1, Erasmusplein 2, Leuven
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