Lectures

• Jennifer Leetsch (University of Bonn, Germany), “Experimental Black Life Writing: Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Instagram Poetry”, 10 May 2022.
• Mala Pandurang (Dr BMN College, Mumbai, India), “Exploring the Complexities of Gendered and Race Relations in the Context of African-Asian Interactions: A Postcolonial-Ethnographic Reading of the Work of Sultan Somjee”, 25 April 2022.
• Belinda Deneen Wallace (University of New Mexico, USA), “Intimate Intersections: Narratives of Postcolonial Queer Belonging(s)”, 18 November 2021.

2019-2020

• Stef Craps (Ghent University, Belgium), “Climate Justice and the Literary Imagination”, 12 December 2019.
• Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading, UK), “Intertwined Histories in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Caryl Phillips, Anita Desai and Zadie Smith”, 10 May 2019.

2018-2019

• Mariam Muwanga (Wuppertal University, Germany), “Narrating Black Diasporic Experience(s) in Small Island”, 23 April 2019.
• Anna-Leena Toivanen (University of Liège, Belgium), “Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in Anglo- and Francophone African Diasporic Fiction”, 7 March 2019.
• Sarah Adams (University of Ghent, Belgium), “Slavery, Sympathy and White Self-Representation on the Dutch Stage (1770-1800)” (organized in collaboration with the research unit Langues et Lettres), 20 February 2019.
• Jéromine François (University of Namur, Belgium), “Nouvelles conquêtes du Nouveau Monde : poétiques (et politiques?) de la littérature uchronique hispano-américaine”, 8 November 2018.
• Helga Ramsey-Kurz (University of Innsbruck, Austria), “Refugee Narratives”, 5 November 2018.
• Neluka Silva (Colombo University, Sri Lanka), “Language as Resistance: The Case of the Baldiya in Sri Lankan Theatre”, 30 October 2018.
• Caryl Phillips (Yale University, USA), reading from A View from the Empire at Sunset, 22 October 2018.
• Astrid Schwegler Castañer (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain), “Questioning Gastronationalism: A Study of Culinary Discourse in the Works of Asian-Australian Authors”, 18 October 2018.

2017-2018

• Maryam Mirza (University of Bonn, Germany), “Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women’s Writing: An Introduction”, 23 May 2018. Within the context of a panel session on South Asian literature.
• Sayan Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), “Burying the Weathervane: Networks of Violence, Dispossession, and Charity in Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter”, 23 May 2018. Within the context of a panel session on South Asian literature.
• Delphine Munos (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), “The old diaspora writes back to the 'new' India: M.G. Vassanji’s A Place Within and Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman”, 23 May 2018. Within the context of a panel session on South Asian literature.
• Ronald Cummings (Brock University, Canada), “Between Here and Not Here: Queer Desires and Postcolonial Longings in the Writings of Dionne Brand and Jose Esteban Munoz”, 28 March 2018.
• Kerry-Jane Wallart (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France), “What Can Genres Do? Transformational Generic Categories in a Caribbean Context”, 14 March 2018.
• Cristina Ali Farah (creative writer), “To Leave in the Afternoon: Inheriting the Language of a Civil War”, 22 November 2017.
• Claire Chambers (University of York, UK), “How to Publish a Refereed Journal Article”, 15 November 2017.

2016-2017

• Maria Cristina Fumagalli (University of Essex, UK), “Morning, Paramin, by Derek Walcott and Peter Doig”, 6 March 2017.
• Beatriz Pérez Zapata (University of Zaragoza, Spain), “Are We All Traumatized Here? A Study of Original Trauma in the Work of Zadie Smith”, 28 November 2016.

2015-2016

• Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska (International University of La Rioja, Spain), “The Architecture of Abandonment in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction”, 14 June 2016.
• Malica S. Willie (University of the West Indies, Barbados), “Being-in-Exile and Being-for-Exile: A Brief Existential Exploration of Garth St. Omer’s Fiction”, 24 May 2016.
• Mala Pandurang (BMN College Mumbai, India), “Remembering and Forgetting: Narratives of the East-African Asian Diaspora”, 13 May 2016.
• Axel Dunker (University of Bremen, Germany), “Recent German Novels on Colonialism” (organized in collaboration with the German Studies Centre CEA), 20 April 2016.
• Michael Ackland (James Cook University, Townsville, Australia), “Who Are the Biggest Cannibals? Colonial Literary Reckonings with the Dark European Other in the Pacific Region”, 18 January 2016.
• Maryam Mirza (University of Liège, Belgium), “Men at Home, Men and Home in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Home by Manju Kapur”, 9 December 2015.

2014-2015

• Evelyn O’Callaghan (University of the West Indies, Barbados), “Caribbean Literature across Languages – An Experiment”, 5 May 2015.
• Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex, UK), “‘You t’ink I mad, miss?’ Mapping Constructions of ‘Madness’ in Caribbean Women’s Writing: from Alienation to Rage”, 21 April 2015.
• Claire Joubert (University of Paris 8, France), “From Postcolonial to Global: Contemporary Genres in Critical Theory”, 10 March 2015.
• Gaurav Desai (Tulane University, USA), “Gandhi as Allegory”, 26 November 2014.

2013-2014

• Silvia Schultermandl (University of Graz, Austria), “States of Ambivalence: Towards An Aesthetics of Transnationalism in American Literature”, 4 February 2014.
• Anne Brewster (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia), “The Gendered Turn in Aboriginal Protest Poetry”, 16 December 2013.
• Tomson Highway (creative writer), “Meeting Tomson Highway”, 18 November 2013.
• Aÿdin Mehmet Ali (Cypriot-Turkish writer), reading from her book Forbidden Zone, 13 November 2013.

2012-2013

• Sue Kossew (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), “Recovering the Past: Entangled Histories in Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance”, 16 May 2013.
• Houda Joubail (University of Liège, Belgium), “Comfort History: Settling the Unsettled Past in Kate Grensville’s The Secret River”, 14 March 2013.
• Meenakshi Bharat (University of Delhi, India), “Under the Shadow of Terror: Contemporary Indian Novels”, 3 December 2012.
• Janet Wilson (University of Northampton, UK), “Postcolonialism: New Directions in the New Millennium”, 12 October 2012.

2011-2012

• Chika Unigwe (Nigerian-Belgian creative writer), reading from her work and interview, 4 May 2012.
• Alison Donnell (University of Reading, UK), “Minority Identities: Rights and Representation”, 8 December 2011.
• Caryl Phillips (British-Caribbean creative writer, Yale University, USA), reading from his work, 10 November 2011.
• Aÿdin Mehmet Ali (Cypriot-Turkish writer), reading from her work, 9 November 2011.
• Stephanos Stephanides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus), talk about English literature in Cyprus, and reading from his work, 5 October 2011.

2010-2011

• Izuchukwu Nwankwo (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), “Stand-up Comedy and the Making of New Theatre in Nigeria”, 28 March 2011.
• Shauna Morgan Kirlew (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany), “Stranger in Zion: Subalternity and Black Jewry in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood", 20 December 2010.
• Stef Craps (Ghent University, Belgium), “Beyond Eurocentrism: Trauma Theory in the Global Age”, 13 December 2010.
• Jawhar Dhouib (University of Liège, Belgium, and University of Sfax, Tunisia), “The Iconicity of Ships in the Writing of Caryl Phillips”, 29 November 2010.
• Lucie Gillet (University of Liège, Belgium), “The Representation of Multi-ethnicity in Contemporary English Fiction”, 27 October 2010.
• Cindy Gabrielle (University of Liège, Belgium), “Janet Frame in East-West Encounters”, 28 September 2010.

2009-2010

• Willy Maloba (University of Lubumbashi, Congo), “Nadine Gordimer’s Novels: A Deconstruction through Genger Lenses of Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, A Sport of Nature, My Son’s Story, and The House Gun”, 28 June 2010.
• Katharine Burkitt (University of Liège, Belgium), “In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: Displacing London in the Work of Bernardine Evaristo”, 25 May 2010.
• Mathilde Mergeai (University of Liège, Belgium), “Lawrence Hill’s and David Chariandy’s Version of Canadian Multiculturalism”, 20 April 2010.
• Christophe Dony (University of Liège, Belgium), “(In)visible bodies: Unmasking the Politics of Passing and Race in Incognegro, a Graphic Mystery by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece”, 29 March 2010.
• Fred D'Aguiar (British-Guyanese creative writer, Virginia Tech, USA) reading from his work, 26 October 2009.