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Conference: Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World, University of Warwick, 27 April 2024 (deadline 30 November 2023)

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Keynote Speaker: Professor Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh The ontological meanings of kinship have long been a central question in academia. From the notion of ‘relatedness’ (Carsten, 2000) to the idea of the ‘mutuality of being’ (Sahlins, 2013), the static blood-based structure of kinship has now been comprehensively dismantled. In today’s world, forms of kinship are […]

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Forum: Space in Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space, The Warburg institute, University of London, 12 – 13 October 2023

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Space in Time is a forum for new work in the long and global cultural history of the space beyond Earth, from the ancient heavens to modern outer space. While space history is a vibrant field of study, extending across the humanities and social sciences, it often breaks down along familiar geographical, disciplinary, and period-based boundaries.

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Online Symposium: Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice, Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 June 2023

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Register to attend (registration is free but it is required to receive the link to attend) The symposium will take place online.  Keynote speaker: Jarred McGinnis, in conversation with Natasha Bell. Consult the full programme and the abstracts and biographies. The ongoing Auto/Bio/Fiction in Practice Seminar Series at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University of London invites

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Conference: Diaries in the 20th Century: Testimony, Memory and Self-Construction. University College, Dublin, 8 – 9 December 2023

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The diary proved an important form of writing during the 20th century, particularly for its engagement with self-definition and memory. In the early decades of the century, it enabled a new exploration of individual personality influenced by late-nineteenth-centurypsychology and philosophy. It can thus be read as an introspective prism displaying the author’s psychological, moral, and

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Call for papers: The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, 2023, Heriot-Watt University, 23 – 24 November (deadline 22 May)

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Lines of Enquiry: Methodological innovation in Translation and Interpreting Studies  Postgraduate research is anything but linear. Instead, it is a process of continual untangling – of plucking at a single thread within the tapestry. Methods and methodologies are the tools we use to find and follow those threads, sometimes without really knowing where they might

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Winners of 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition Now Available in Comparative Critical Studies

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The winners of the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition have been announced, and their translations can now be read in the most recent issue of Comparative Critical Studies. The competition, which honors the memory of the 17th-century English poet and translator John Dryden, is held annually and recognizes outstanding translations of literary works from any

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Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 19.3: Postcolonial Speculative Literature

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The final issue of Comparative Critical Studies for 2022 is now available online:  Postcolonial Speculative LiteratureGuest Edited by July Blalack and Tasnim Qutait https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/19/3 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Speculative Fiction Beyond the WestTasnim Qutait  and July Blalack 19(3), pp. 281–296 Essays ‘Poison Rainbows’: The Speculative Jurisdiction of Okorafor’s LagoonTabea Wilkes19(3), pp. 299–313 ‘Uncertain Voyages of Signification’: Salvage Poetics of the CaribatopiaCathy Thomas19(3), pp. 315–340 Borders, Boundaries and

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Conference: Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis, University of Warwick, Saturday 25 February 2023

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Registration is now open for this BCLA-sponsored conference. Please also consult the terms and conditions, including cancellation policy before booking. Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis will be a one-day interdisciplinary conference, bringing together scholars from across the humanities. We aim to rethink dominant notions of crisis, using the framework of “territorial bodies” to generate new

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Lecture: Marina Warner, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid”,  19 January 2023, 6.00pm GMT

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UPDATE: The lecture has been rescheduled to 19 January 2023 due to the University and College Union national strike on 24 November 2022 The Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, is delighted to announce the inaugural lecture in our Annual Lecture series:  Marina Warner, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid”  A group

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