Categoria: CFPs
Studying Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of Turtle Island in Europe:
Questions of Methodology, Positionality, Accountability, and Research Ethics
Animals in the American Popular Imagination
Virtual conference 12-16 September 2022
In his book Animals on Television (2017), Brett Mills states that “representations of animals often function to highlight cultural understandings about what it is to be human.” Nonhuman animals have been unwilling objects of the human gaze: humans have been exploiting animals (real and imagined) on the basis, and the attendant continued perpetuation, of self-assigned human superiority and centrality.
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ANNOUNCING THE 2022 INSTITUTE
The 2022 Futures of American Studies Institute will begin on Monday, June 20th and conclude on Sunday, June 26th. The twenty-fourth year of the Institute will be organized around highlighted, special topic plenary sessions, seminars devoted to participant works-in-progress, group discussions with the editor of an academic journal, plus opportunities for other participant-organized activities.
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Crises We Live By: A Metaphorical Approach to the Crisis Transdisciplinary Conference at the University of Potsdam, Germany
30-31 March 2023Margaret Fuller Society
TITLE: Conditions of Exile in the Nineteenth-Century and Beyond