Category: CFP

  American Comparative Literature Association// Utrecht University, Netherlands// July 6-9 2017 Emerging out of the practices of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery/slave trade, race theory has seen renewed and reinvigorated interest in the last sixteen years. Recent scholarship has started to examine the relationship between these varying theories on race from philosophical, philological, theological, historical, biological, and other…

The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of modernization”, blurs the distinction between human and geological history (Dipesh Chakrabarty). It speaks, too, to contemporary fiction’s concern with the place of humans on the planet, the ways in which they shape -…

University of Leeds Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017 Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King’s College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Illinois) Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing…

Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017. ‘It’s a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply’. Toni Morrison is not the only…

  Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Friday 20th January 2017. ‘It’s a kind of literary archaeology: on the basis of some information and a little bit of guesswork you journey to a site to see what remains were left behind and to reconstruct the world that these remains imply’. Toni Morrison is not the…

Call for Papers/Expressions of Interest Who Do They Think They Are? Cultures of Climate Scepticism, Anti-Environmentalism, and Conservative Environmentalism Symposium, June 6-8 2016, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada   Environmentalists know who climate sceptics are: oil company shills, religious fundamentalists and neoliberal cheerleaders. The questions asked at this symposium are: who do they think they are? What kinds of…

Call for Papers Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind 15-16 July 2016, University of Bristol   The AHRC-funded network, ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’, seeks to investigate the historical and discursive links between literary modernism, medical discoveries, and clinical practice, in dialogue with the insights of visual artists and art historians, dancers and dance…

The CFP is for a special issue of the journal Cogent Humanities on Ecotheory and the Premodern. The link is here:  http://explore.cogentoa.com/call-for-special-issues/eco-theory-and-the-pre-modern

Call for Papers and Panels: Science in Public 2016 University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016 The annual Science in Public conference is an occasion for cross-disciplinary debate and discussion and a forum for sharing all work considering the relationships between science, technology, medicine and their multiple publics. We welcome submissions from scholars of, for…