The English Unit of the University of Namur is pleased to be able to host the 2025 conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) on Friday 12 December 2025.
The theme for this year's conference will be 'Language and literature across the lifespan'. The plenary speakers will be Michael Erard, whose most recent book Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words helped inform our choice of theme, and Vanessa Joosen, who will share recent insights from her inspiring work on depictions of age and the life course in children's literature. For more on the conference theme, read on!
We are inviting submissions, by a 15 September 2025 deadline, from across the academic spectrum (predocs, postdocs, established scholars, emeriti) and the different disciplines of English Studies represented in BAAHE (cultural and literary studies, translation studies, linguistics and applied linguistics, ELT and EFL). The conference is open to both BAAHE members and non-members (or not-yet members). We encourage submissions that address our general theme, but for PhD students in particular, we will be happy to relax this expectation if this helps increase their active participation.
Feel free to download and publicize our poster, linked at the bottom right corner of this page (in PDF and PNG formats)!
Key dates
- Call for papers published: 30 May 2025
- Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2025
- Notifications of acceptance: 1 October 2025
- Conference day: 12 December 2025
Registration
We will open registration at a date yet to be determined (but no later than 1 October 2025). Participation in the conference will be free of charge.
