The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), which was founded in 1981, provides a forum both for academics who study the literatures in English or English linguistics at Belgian universities, and for Anglicists who teach and do research in interpreters' schools and other Belgian institutions of higher education.
BAAHE membership benefits include the following:
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a subscription to English Text Construction, the international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam & Philadelphia; two issues per year, adding up to c. 300 pages per year)
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free participation in national, and reduced fees for participation in international, BAAHE conferences
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the right to submit papers to BAAHE conferences
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the right to submit MA theses written under one's supervision to the thesis award
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membership in the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), which in its turn entails eligibility to apply for ESSE’s bursaries, book grants and book awards, a substantial discount on the registration fee for the biennial ESSE conferences, and the possibility to submit proposals for sub-plenary lectures, papers and seminars for these conferences (recent venues: 2022 Mainz, 2024 Lausanne, 2026 Santiago de Compostela, 2028 Manchester).
Feel free to download and distribute a one-page flyer listing the main reasons for joining BAAHE to anyone who might be interested -- in particular new PhD students or other new arrivals in your department.
Membership fees are due for each calendar year.
The 2026 membership dues, to be paid into BAAHE's bank account BE68 0015 2136 1134 no later than 1 November 2026, are as follows:
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40,00 EUR for tenured members,
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30,00 EUR for non-tenured and retired members (this includes PhD students that can use department or bench fee funding to cover their membership),
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15,00 EUR as a special discounted rate for unsupported students (i.e. research MA students or PhD students with no financial support which could cover their fee for them); note that this fee tier includes BAAHE and ESSE membership (and so access to the BAAHE mailing list and to ESSE subsidies and other benefits), but not the journal subscription.
Please notify the treasurer (lobke.ghesquiere@umons.ac.be) when payment has been made. New members joining BAAHE for the first time should also contact the secretary (marilize.pretorius@uantwerpen.be) so as to provide their details.