2019 LACE Winter School: Narrative Values, the Value of Narratives

Picture by Thessa Lageman

Together with Professor Barend van Heusden, I am supervising this year's LACE Winter School. Its theme is Narrative Values, the Value of Narratives and it will take place at the University of Groningen from 28 January until 1 February 2019.

Literature and Change in Europe (LACE) is a network of seven universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Bologna (Italy), University of Granada (Spain), University of Groningen (the Netherlands), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Lisboa (Portugal), and University of Tartu (Estonia). The LACE Winter School is meant to bring together students, scholars and professionals with an interest in narrative and storytelling.

This year's theme was partly chosen to celebrate the work of professor Liesbeth Korthals Altes who is retiring on 31 January 2019. Her farewell lectutre, Caleidoscopes: Art, Narrative, and Values, will be part of the Winter School. This makes the Winter School not only professionally, but also personally relevant for me, as professor Korthals Altes was my PhD supervisor, and I have worked with her in one capacity or another for almost 20 years now.

More information on the LACE Winter School can be found here.