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BAAHE organizes conference on an annual basis in several universities across Belgium. Pictures from past conferences are available on the BAAHE Facebook page and in the Gallery.
The 2024 BAAHE conference is organised by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on December 13, 2024. The call for paper is now available. The conference website is accessible here: https://events.vub.be/baahe-conference-2024
Past conferences:
Location | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 2023 | The 2023 BAAHE conference focused on the theme of "Complexities / Complicities" and was held at the KU Leuven on 17 November 2023. The keynote speakers were Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University) and Magali Paquot (Université Catholique de Louvain). |
Université de Liège | 2022 | The 2022 BAAHE conference, whose theme was "Undercurrents: Challenging the Mainstream", was held at the Université de Liège on 2 December 2022. Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) were the keynote speakers. |
Université libre de Bruxelles | 2021 | The 2021 BAAHE conference, devoted to the theme of “Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World”, was held at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) on 3 December 2021, with Kate Rigby (Bath Spa University) and Alexa Weik von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt) as keynote speakers. |
Universiteit Antwerpen | 2020 | The 2020 BAAHE conference, titled Digital Humanities in English Language and Literature Studies in Belgium: Current Trends, Future Prospects, was held at the University of Antwerp on 17 December 2020. It was devoted to the role of Digital Humanities in Literature, Linguistics and Translation Studies. The keynote speaker was Julie Birkholz (UGent). Due to the Covid pandemic, this was an online event. |
Universiteit Gent | 2019 | The 2019 BAAHE conference took place at Ghent University on 19 December and focused on two themes: 1) English as an instructed medium and English as a medium of instruction and 2) decolonization in English literature, with Slobodanka Dimova (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) as keynote speakers. |
Université de Mons | 2018 | The 2018 BAAHE conference was held at the Université de Mons on Friday 30 November 2018, focusing on the theme of Intensity. The keynote speaker was Belén Méndez-Naya (University of Santiago de Compostela). |
Université catholique de Louvain | 2017 | The 2017 BAAHE conference was held at the Université catholique de Louvain on Friday 1 December 2017 on the theme "Let’s inter-act! Innovative teaching practices in English Studies". The keynote speaker was Prof Mark Pegrum (University of Western Australia). |
Université libre de Bruxelles | 2016 | The 2016 BAAHE conference, whose theme was "World / Text / Context", was held at the Université libre de Bruxelles on Friday 2 December 2016, with as keynote speaker Billy Clark (Middlesex University). |
Vrije Universiteit Brussels | 2015 | The 2015 BAAHE conference, devoted to the theme of Adaptation, was held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB on Friday 4 December 2015, with as keynote speaker Eckart Voigts (TU of Braunschweig). |
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