February 24-25, 2020 Workshop on The Politics of the Neo-Avant-Garde Program The ninth ENAG meeting takes the form of workshop in which four teams will fine-tune the text they are to write for a collective ENAG journal issue. On Monday afternoon the teams work separately, on Tuesday they present their texts to all ENAG-members and […]

Ghent UniversityDepartment of Translation, Interpreting and CommunicationGhent, Belgium 12th March, 2020 Call for Papers in EN – Appel à contribution en FR This conference opens up new lines of inquiry in the field of translation studies, by inviting participants to explore avant-garde poetry and experiment with different translation options. Theoretical reflections and/or practical case studies […]

November 7-8, 2019The Politics of the Neo-Avant-Garde Program The eighth ENAG meeting focuses on the political aspects, strategies, intentions and effects of the avant-garde. What exactly are the politics of the avant-garde and is there a major difference, in this respect, between the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde? How are those politics related to poetics […]

Call for Papers for the 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
17-19 Sept. 2020 – University of Leuven, Belgium

December 12-13-14, 2019 Location The conference will be held in Laboratoires d’Aubervillers, an art center focusing on experimentation and social practices as well as live creation.Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers 41 Rue Lécuyer, 93300 Aubervilliers on line 7 of the Parisian métro Organizing committee Vincent Broqua (Université Paris 8/ TransCrit), Celia Bense (Université Paris 8/ UMR 7217 CRESPPA), […]

The topic of the Liège meeting is the (re)appropriation of forms and materials as a typical strategy of neo-avant-garde literature as manifested notably in collage, ready mades, cut-ups, found art, as well as reenactments and reinterpretations of already existing forms.

10:00-12:30 PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION Roland Innerhofer: Acoustic Sensualisation of the Signs in the Works of the Wiener Gruppe Inge Arteel, Lars Bernaerts, Siebe Bluijs, and Ruben Vanden Berghe: The Literary Radio Play in the Low Countries (1960-2000) Presentation of the ongoing research project 2016-2020 12:30-13:30 LUNCH 13:30-15:30 ENAG BOARD MEETING http://enag.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ENAG-workshop-30-November-2018.pdf

Experimental radio plays in the postwar period Keynote speakers: Daniel Gilfillan (Arizona State University) Jesper Olsson (Linköping University) Jarmila Mildorf (Paderborn University) Karin Bijsterveld (Maastricht University) Information and registration: www.neo-avant-garde.ugent.be   Poster Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde_def Programme_Tuning in to the Neo-Avant-Garde_

This international ENAG-meeting focuses on the interface between literature and visual arts and also discusses the visualisation of literature. The meeting will take place on the 13th and 14th of September 2018 at the library of the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre in Paris.     For more information see our calendar or the Programme.

Embodied Words Concrete and Visual Poetry in Italy and Belgium in the 60s and 70s Italian Cultural Institute, Brussels May 24 – 25, 2018 Stemming from Italian and Russian Futurism, German Dadaism, French Simultanéisme and Lettrism, the analytical reflection on language and the dialectical tension between words and images have deeply informed art and literature […]