2024

Conference: Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison, University of Oxford, 24 – 25 May 2024

Keynote speakersSeeta Chaganti, Professor of English, University of California, DavisMark Currie, Professor of Contemporary Literature, Queen Mary, University of LondonCarla Freccero, Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz  Funded byOxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, University of Oxford  Organised byJoseph Hankinson, Career Development Lecturer in English, University […]

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Conference: Divine Disasters, University of Warwick, 24 February 2024

This conference proposes “divine disasters” as a new lens for examining the interrelationship between theology, ecology, and literature. We invite papers that consider how ideas of faith, religion, the divine or the sacred are challenged during ecological crises. Focusing on the Spaces/Places of such disasters, we invite enquiries into these distressed landscapes containing multitudinous emotions,

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

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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