26–27/11/2026 (Sint-Baafshuis Ghent)
INTER-BREYTEN. Breytenbach in Context
Organisation: Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa (www.afrikaans.ugent.be)
Programme
06–08/10/2026 (UGent, Faculty library, Arts and Philosophy)
Leonard Cohen 2026: Global Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Artist
Organisation: Francis Mus (UGent), Kait Pinder (Acadia University, Canada), Joel Deshaye (Memorial University, Canada)
Programme
17–18/09/2026 (Cloud 7 & VUB, Brussels)
Violence, Translation and Testimonial Authority: Ethics and Transmediality in Life-Writing
Organisation: VUB Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC), Stephanie Engola (VUB), Arvi Sepp (VUB), Ilse Logie (UGent), Delphine Munos (ULiège)
Programme
04–05/11/2025 (UGent, Faculty library, Arts and Philosophy)
Putting Translators on the Map
Organisation: Francis Mus (UGent), France Schils (UGent), Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven), Céline Letawe (ULiège), Maud Gonne (ULiège)
Programme
10–12/09/2025 (UGent, Campus Mercator)
Popular Fiction in Translation
Organisation: Bram Lambrecht, Jo De Brie, with the support of CLIV and TRACE
Programme
20/09/2024 (UGent, De Krook, De Blauwe Vogel)
Vertaling en verzet. Symposium en emeritaatsviering voor Désirée Schyns
Organisation: Research groups TRACE (Translation and Culture, UGent) and CLIV
Programme
09/09/2024 (UGent, Campus Mercator, A104)
Misdaadfictie in de Lage Landen in transnationaal perspectief
Organisation: Bram Lambrecht, Jo De Brie, with the support of CLIV and TRACE
Programme
17/11/2023 (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Ein vielgestaltiger, aber unbekannter Nachbar? Die Rezeption belgischer Literaturen im deutschen Kontext (1945-heute)
Organisation: Vera Elisabeth Gerling, Arvi Sepp, Anja van de Pol-Tegge (VUB) a.o. with the support of CLIV
Programme
16/10/2023 (UGent, De Krook)
Reizen en thuiskomen: Lieve Joris en haar vertalers
Organisation: Bram Lambrecht en Anneleen Spiessens with the support of CLIV and TRACE
Programme
13−15/09/2023 (UGent, Campus Mercator)
Translation and the Periodical
Organisation: Gaëtan Regniers, Dominic Bentley-Hussey, Christina Bezari, Jo De Brie, Brecht de Groote, Miguel Ángel Guerra Blázquez, Francis Mus, Anna Namestnikov, Gaëtan Regniers, Piet Van Poucke
A collaboration of CLIV and UGent and ENLIGHT-partners Uppsala University, NUI Galway, University of Tartu and University of the Basque Country
Programme
Publication (2026) special issue of Journal of European Periodical Studies
13−14/06/2023 (VUB)
Transatlantic flows: the circulation of literature between the Americas and Europe
Organisation: Arvi Sepp (VUB), Federal University of Ceará, Federal University of Santa Catarina with the support of CLIV
Programme
22−23/04/2022 (UGent, De Krook)
The Original in its Metamorphoses. Tracing the Translator in the Long Eighteenth Century (1660–1830)
Organisation: Brecht de Groote, Lieve Jooken, Sonja Lavaert, Guy Rooryck with the support of CLIV
Programme
Publication (2025) conference volume in the Studies on Philosophy, Intellectual History, Arts, Sciences series, Brepols
21/10/2021 (UGent, KANTL)
Hertmans in Vertaling
Organisation: research group TRACE (Translation and Culture, UGent) with the support of CLIV
Programme
13−14/12/2021 (KU Leuven, Antwerpen)
Vertaling en wereldliteratuur: een Belgisch perspectief
Organisation: UAntwerpen, KU Leuven, VUB with the support of CLIV
Programme
15−16/10/2020 (UGent, online)
Nuevas escrituras multilingües latinoamericanas y latinas (2000-2020)
Organisation: Ilse Logie, An Van Hecke and Sarah Staes with the support of CLIV
Programme
5−6/12/2019 (VUB, Passa Porta)
Kader Abdolah: Poëtica, vertaling en receptie
Organisation: Philippe Humblé, Hans Vandevoorde and Arvi Sepp with the support of CLIV
Programme
07/02−08/02/2017 (UGent, Campus Mercator)
Retranslation in Context 3
Organisation: CLIV in collaboration with Universiteit Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Programme
Website
Publication
Sanz Gallego, G. & Van Poucke, P. (2019). Retranslation in Context. Cadernos de Tradução, 39(1), special issue.
09−11/12/2015 (Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Parlement/Universitaire Stichting, Brussel)
Translation in Exile
Organisation: CLIV in collaboration with University of Santiago de Compostela (Spanje) and Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazilië)
Programme
Website
Publication
Sepp, A., Humblé, Ph., Sanz Gallego, G. & Schyns, D. (2018). Translation in Exile. Cadernos de Tradução, 38(1), special issue.
15−16/09/2014 (Philipps Universität Marburg)
The Dutch Legacy. Radical thinkers of the 17th century and the Enlightenment
Organisation: Sonja Lavaert (VUB, CLIV) and Winfried Schröder (Philipps Universität Marburg)
Publication
Lavaert, S. & Schröder, W. (eds.) (2016). The Dutch legacy: radical thinkers of the 17th century and the Enlightenment. Brill.