In 2020/2021 Justine Feyereisen, PhD in Letters, Translation and Communication (ULB) and French and francophone Literature (University of Grenoble), was granted a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral fellowship to carry out a second a second year of research on her project “Poetics of Cosmopolitical Utopias: Challenging Borders with Literature”, under the supervision of Prof. Matthew Reynolds (Faculty of English, University of Oxford).
Three new publications by our Alumni Anissa Maâ, Ârash Aminian Tabrizi and Justine Feyereisen
Anissa Maâ, PhD in Political and Social Sciences (ULB) and F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, has published Signer la déportation. Migrations africaines et retours volontaires depuis le Maroc (Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2024). Based on her doctoral dissertation, this book analyzes voluntary return programmes [...]
« Women, memory and transmission », a conference co-organised by our Fellow Justine Feyereisen at the Maison française d’Oxford
October is shaping up to be a busy month for our Fellow Justine Feyereisen, who is finishing her two-year stay at the University of Oxford as part of her Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship. Justine had previously obtained a PhD in Languages, Literature and Translation Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles [...]
“Utopia and migration”, an international conference co-organised by Wiener-Anspach Fellow Justine Feyereisen and the Maison française d’Oxford
How does contemporary literature deal with the current issues related to borders from the perspective of utopia? A rich panel of speakers will address this question from April 19 to 23 at the international conference "Utopia and Migration: Renewing the Imagination of Borders in the 21st c." Co-organised by [...]
Southern Lives Network and other news from our Oxford-based Fellows Justine Feyereisen and Coraline Jortay
On December 8, 2020 Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellows Justine Feyereisen and Coraline Jortay participated in the launch of the Southern Lives Network convened by Professor Elleke Boehmer at the Oxford Center for Life Writing. With more than forty members, the network seeks to explore questions such as: what does it [...]