Winter/summer schools & symposia
September 16–18, 2024
Active participation (with presentation) in the “Seasonal School: Cross-cultural explorations into the role of fate, destiny, and predestination as agents for health and wellbeing” at Ghent University in Belgium
June 20–23, 2022
Participation in the international summer school “Literary Studies & Digital Humanities” organized by Leiden University, and the universities of Leuven and Liège.
August 2–13, 2021
Active participation (with presentation) in an international (online) two-week-long summer symposium on “Climate | Changes | Global Perspectives” organized by the University of Würzburg in Germany, with keynote lectures by (among others) Heather Houser (UT Austin) and Susan Morrison (Texas State University).
July 6–11, 2020
Active participation (with presentation) in an (online) intensive week-long Summer School program on Ecoculture (X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture in Portugal) featuring (among others) Lawrence Buell (Harvard University), John Durham Peters (Yale University), Haun Saussy (University of Chicago) and Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg).
January 20–24, 2020
Active participation (with presentation) in an intensive, week-long Winter School program at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands on cutting-edge narrative theory and “Narrative and Identity”, devoted to studying the many forms and shapes of narrative identity in a wide variety of media and settings and from different perspectives (featuring, among others, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar [University of Groningen], Liesbeth Korthals Altes [University of Groningen], Fernanda Mota Alves [Universidade de Lisboa] and Barend van Heusden [University of Groningen]).