Anna Sofia Churchill
@ASofiaChurchill
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PhD Candidate Postcolonial Literature | @ERC_research StGP @COLLAB_Leuven @KU_Leuven | Making Literature in Contexts of Displacement | 🇬🇧🇮🇹
Leuven, Belgium
Joined January 2021
📢CFP! Dr. Sonja Faarden Ruud & @ASofiaChurchill will be convening the panel "How bottom-up writing practices in contexts of displacement unwrite what it means to belong" @ SIEF2025 "Unwriting" @aberdeenuni in June 2025. All abstracts welcome by 17 Dec! https://t.co/PcQrs9t8S8
nomadit.co.uk
Countering exclusionary notions of national literature, this panel centres writings by authors rendered out-of-place by the nation-state, exploring how literary production in contexts of displacement...
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📢 CFP! International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 2025: Unwriting @aberdeenuni I'm convening the panel "How bottom-up writing practices in contexts of displacement unwrite what it means to belong" with Dr. Sonja Faaren Ruud & Olga Husch https://t.co/lN0K8j65LD
nomadit.co.uk
Countering exclusionary notions of national literature, this panel centres writings by authors rendered out-of-place by the nation-state, exploring how literary production in contexts of displacement...
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📢 Call for papers! We welcome proposals for our 2025 Interdisciplinary Symposium, open to junior or experienced researchers, writers, artists, and activists. 📑Read the Call on our new website: https://t.co/XPtiDzkosi... ⏳Please send us your contribution by 6 December 2024!
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Programme Venue Call for Papers
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Two more weeks to apply for our inspiring symposium in May. We welcome submissions from the humanities and social sciences, from artists and researchers alike.
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In the summer I had the pleasure of interviewing Prof. Jan Baetens on Kafka's doodles. Not a subject I was previously familiar with but hopefully this little blog post I wrote sheds some light on a lesser-known aspect of Kafka :) https://t.co/jbl2XOAuSl
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Franz Kafka is commonly known as the author of some of the most major contributions to the modern Western literary canon. Some of the images envisioned when reading books like The Metamorphosis...
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✍️I'm happy to share a blog post I wrote which is a rather personal reflection on growing up with dual nationality and in a multilingual environment. Feel free to check it out on the COLLAB blog :) https://t.co/wKCQQYxSmW
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When driving from Naples to Faicchio the road is often wrought with potholes, cracks caused by past earthquakes never to have been repaired, dirt, dust, and sometimes, ashamedly, litter. The surrou…
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COLLAB has a new website (design by @JoanaRoqu1) 🥳! Check it out to find out more about our upcoming interdisciplinary symposium on polyphony and silence:
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ERC Project on how collaboration is changing the cultural field
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Excited that the new COLLAB website has been launched! Feel free to check it out :) and thanks to our teammate @JoanaRoqu1 for building it. https://t.co/sJWqQagRc0
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ERC Project on how collaboration is changing the cultural field
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Not sure where I had the guts to accept to give a keynote on this topic! But it was a really enriching - but also terribly exhausting-my own fault! - symposium back @lunduniversity! Now eating a massive slice of cheesecake for dinner! A very early night to catch up on my sleep!
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Very happy to be at @lunduniversity this week speaking at the "Literature & Censorship: Symposium on Forbidden Books" conference organised by Komplitt. Also nice to be here with @JoanaRoqu1 representing @COLLAB_Leuven
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#InternationalTranslationDay is on Monday! There are still a few tickets for our two-part "state of the translation world" conversation. @englishpen Join us at Senate House (@SenateHouseLib) & online. Supported by @ALCS_UK & in collab. w/ @SASNews. https://t.co/XquZrqPDyK
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International Translation Day is back with a deep-dive conversation into the state of the sector in 2024 and networking reception
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New publication, co-authored with the brilliant @Nuria__Codina: 'Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other: Restless Books and the Prize for New Immigrant Writing'. Snag a free copy here:
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Situated at the intersection of international relations, the sociology of literature, translation studies, textual analysis, and global literary studies, this article focuses on Restless Books’ con...
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Back from the “Bordering society” conference in Birmingham. Thanks to IRIS for bringing together such an inspiring and engaged community of migration scholars from different disciplines
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Very happy to be participating at the conference “What Remains? Literature & Ethics in a Time of Crisis” in Stockholm this week organised by @artskuleuven @Stockholm_Uni Mid Sweden Uni Karoliina Gaspar University
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A rather lovely (and sugary) way to round off the academic year at the English Lit department @artskuleuven Apparently we also have some very talented bakers in our midst! 🍰
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Ladybird things I really, really wanted, part 16. My own “book room” Artist: Frank Hampson
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Just published: my short new article (open access) commissioned by the (previously named) JCL to mark the journal’s major re-titling: ‘Re: placement: Commonwealth, postcolonial, and the politics of positioning’.
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This essay explores the politics of positioning as it has shifted from the paradigms of “Commonwealth literature” to postcolonial studies, and asks if older mec...
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Always a treat to see the work of @LeilaEssaI but especially twice in the space of a week! Brilliant keynote at the OSL PhD Day today at @LeidenHum
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Nice to be at @LeidenHum at the OSL PhD Day presenting a paper on literature and community :)
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