On November 11, 2020 at 7pm, the House of European History in Brussels is organizing a free online screening of the Oscar-nominated Polish film “Boże Ciało” (dir. Jan Komasa, 2019), within the framework of the ongoing exhibition “Fake for real”. You can register for the online event at Movie Screenings Fake for Real.
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Michiel Van de Gucht, alumnus of the MA program in translation and interpreting (KU Leuven, Campus Brussels), has been awarded the first place in this year’s literary translation contest organized by the Embassy of the Polish Republic in the Hague. Gratulacje!
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The Polish Embassy in The Hague and the Slavic Studies department of the University of Amsterdam have just launched a new contest open to all people interested in Polish-Dutch literary translation. Click here for more details.
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In its most recent issue, the Dutch literary review Tijdschrift voor Slavische Literatuur published the opening chapter of Magdalena Tulli’s acclaimed prose collection Italian High Heels (2011), translated by Cynthia Van Muylder (Master of Translation, Brussels). Click here to check out Tulli’s engaging prose!
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The legendary Dutch translator Paul Beers – best known for his translations of Witold Gombrowicz – has handed over his Pankowski archive (including his long-term correspondence with the Polish-Belgian novelist, poet and playwright). A precious collection waiting for an MA student (ULB or KULeuven) to be explored in its entirety!
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In its Spring issue, the Flemish literary review Deus ex Machina published some fragments from Marcin Wicha’s acclaimed collection of short stories Things I Did Not Throw Away (2017), translated by students from our campus in Brussels (Master of Translation). Click here to check out Wicha’s both touching and hilarious prose.
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This morning, a group of students from Jagiellonian University paid a visit to Leuven, as part of a six-day field trip to Flanders organized by the Cracovian historian Rafał Szmytka. Many thanks to our students Cindy Szulc and Paulien Lambert and our alumi Hanne Sneyers, Kaat Buelens and Jeroen Van de Voorde for showing them around (and to our colleagues from the history department Anna Boeles Rowland and Idesbald Goddeeris for joining in)!
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We cordially invite you to a guest lecture by political scientist and philosopher Jacek Kołtan (PhD, Deputy Director for Research at the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk, Poland):
“The Solidarity Movement and the Birth of the 21st Century”
Thursday, May 2, 9AM, MSI 01.12, Erasmusplein 2, Leuven
(in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Brussels)
The lecture will be followed by a discussion of the (Solidarity-related) Tunesian-Belgian migration drama Traversées (dir. Mahmoud ben Mahmoud, 1983).
(submitted by Kris Van Heuckelom)
Russian and Polish Studies @ KU Leuven 