Anna Sofia Churchill

Botanical knowledge: what plants can tell us about history and politics When human settlements disappear, so do the stories of those who called them home. In her research, art historian Marta Wódz shows how researchers can chart such lost human environments through the us...

Happy to share my latest blog post, 'Botanical knowledge: what plants can tell us about history and politics' on the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts blog. Thanks to my brilliant interviewee, Art Historian, Marta Wódz, for sharing her fascinating research with me :)

www.arts.kuleuven.be/scicomm/engl...

👋 A warm welcome to participants joining us today for our second International Online School in Forced Migration of the academic year.

The School has now welcomed 441 participants from 78 countries since 2021!

Apply for the next School, taking place 23-27 June

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Very happy to be spending the week with the @refugeestudies.bsky.social at their International Online School in Forced Migration. Looking forward to lots of interesting discussions with the professors and participants on such an important and urgent topic

Join us for our discussion on Snitching, Denunciation, Collaboration: How and Why Citizens Choose to Support Dictators! - 11 February 5 pm Hollands College, Leuven - see details here: mailing.kuleuven.be/r-26918ef8fe... and book your seat here: soc.kuleuven.be/lines/fcee/e...
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📢 CFP! SIEF2025 Congress: Unwriting at University of Aberdeen

I will be convening the panel "How bottom-up writing practices in contexts of displacement unwrite what it means to belong" with Dr. Sonja Faaren Ruud (KU Leuven) and Olga Husch (Giessen & Lisbon).

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Riflessione Uno / Reflection One: “Both” / “Tutt’ e dduje” 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…

✍️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 :)
collab-lit.com/2024/10/21/r...

Hidden in the Margins: Kafka's Drawings 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 (1915)...

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 :)
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Symposium 2025 Call for Papers  Convenors:   Marialena Avgerinou (marialena.avgerinou@kuleuven.be) Sonja Faaren Ruud (sonjafaaren.ruud@kuleuven.be)  Polyphony and silence are concepts that refer to sonorit…

📢 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: collab-lit.com/symposium-20...
⏳Please send us your contribution by 6 December 2024!