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OLSa Seminar - Session #1 | Poetry in the street

Turning to authorized and unauthorized investments of public space, performances, uses of ephemeral supports and other departures from the framework, various interventions will question the stakes of forms of writing deployed outside the book and their effects on representations of poetic practice.Today's theme: Poetry in the streetThe acclimatization of poetry to advertising communication has contributed to reinforcing its urban inscription, so that today it frequently appears on the walls of our cities, often through fragmentary quotations and isolated verses. These writings are sometimes the result of commissions and are therefore perfectly authorized, but they can also be the product of wild production: what are the preferred forms in such cases, and how can they be archived? From the enunciation of these urban poems to their revival on social networks, this first session of the OLSa seminar will be an opportunity to examine the modes of emergence, circulation and conservation of wild literatures. Next seminarsOctober 29, 2025, L12, 4-6pm: Benoît Cottet (Paris 8) - Poetry in performance.December 11, 2025, L01, 4-6pm: Arvi Sepp (VUB) and Florence Pierre (UNamur) - Other forms, other walls.
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University and democracy: a living, sometimes threatened, link

Trust of traditional political institutions and elected representatives, rise of authoritarian logics, definition of public services... Democracy today seems to be going through a turbulent zone. What role does the university play in this context? To shed light on this question, we interviewed four researchers from different disciplines: educationalist Sephora Boucenna, philosopher Louis Carré, political scientist Vincent Jacquet and legal scholar Aline Nardi. Their contrasting views sketch out the contours of an issue that is more topical than ever: thinking about and defending the link between university and democracy.
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Transitions

The Transitions Research Institute brings together researchers in the humanities and social sciences to study the major changes affecting our contemporary societies. Faced with multiple environmental, democratic, economic, health, and social tensions, our development models, institutions, and ways of living together are being called into question. 

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Symposium - Domestic violence: understanding, naming, acting. An interdisciplinary and systemic approach

Organized by the Children's Rights Unit of the Vulnerabilities & Societies Center. Information and registration
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ERC starting grant CITIZEN_IMPACT

How - and how much - do citizens’ assemblies matter for contemporary European democracies? The Citizen Impact project investigates whether these deliberative forums are symbolic “window dressing” or drivers of real change in policymaking, public debate, and civil society.ERC Starting Grant, 2024–2028 (Grant Agreement No. 101077920)
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