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Mese: Giugno 2021
Early Career Researchers’ Perspectives on
the Literatures and Cultures of Canada/Turtle Island
Call for Papers for a special issue of
Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies
(Issue 11, 2022)
Much has been written in academia about narrating one’s own life and the lives of others that scholars have subsumed amongst others under life writing which includes a multiplicity of different (sub-)genres such as autobiography, biography or diary (see, e.g., Smith and Watson 2010).
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This roundtable session addresses the 2022 NeMLA conference theme of “care” to explore its significance and resonance throughout the Black diaspora. As Christina Sharpe asks in In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016), “How can we think (and rethink and rethink) care laterally, in the register of the intramural, in a different relation than that of the violence of the state?” (20) This session aims to continue to rethink care in this context.
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“Archipelagic thinking: Anthropocene Islands and the Insular.” Public conversation with Prof. Michelle Ann Stephens (English Dept., Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ) and Prof. Jonathan Pugh (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University UK).
Read More “11/07/2021 – Opportunities: Workshop “Archipelagic Imperial Spaces and Mobilities”” »
The 13th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 24-25, 2021 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Read More “30/06/2021 – CFP: 13th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference” »
Segnaliamo l’apertura delle iscrizioni per l’edizione 2021 (online) della Summer School in Cultural Studies dell’Università di Urbino. Il tema di quest’anno è CHINAMERICA. Informazioni in allegato. PDF_SUMMER_SCHOOL_CHINAMERICA