Professor William Marx (Collège de France), laureaat van de internationale leerstoel Francqui 2021-2022 aan de faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte van de Universiteit Antwerpen, wordt uitgenodigd om in oktober, november en december 2022 conferenties te geven over moderne literatuur.

Programma

• 13 oktober 2022 - Inaugural class: Beyond World Literature.​
• 14 oktober 2022 - Class of excellence 1: Lost and often found works.​
• 16 november 2022 -  Class of excellence 2: Is there a gay science?​
• 17 november 2022 - Doctoral conference: The French Touch in Literary Studies Today.​
• 1-2 december 2022 - Conference: Comparative Literature and Possible Texts.​

​William Marx is professor at the Collège de France (Paris), where he holds the chair of comparative literature. His books, translated into a dozen languages, include Naissance de la critique moderne (2002), Les Arrière-gardes au XXe siècle (2004), L'Adieu à la littérature (2005), Vie du lettré (2009), Le Tombeau d'Œdipe (2012), La Haine de la littérature (2015), Un savoir gai (2018), Vivre dans la bibliothèque du monde (2020) and Des étoiles nouvelles (2021). Professor Marx will hold the Francqui International Chair at the University of Antwerp during the fall of 2022. Activities related to the Francqui Chair are open to all.