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https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/global-majority-and-underrepresented-writers-programme The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) at the University is delighted to announce that the call for applications for the inaugural Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Programme (2025–26) is now open.
The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to digital and screened narratives that highlight the medial aspect of the screen as intermediary and/or work to construct identities. In an era when screens dominate and mediate virtually every aspect of our lives, the construction and performance of digital identities have become key to understand contemporary popular culture.
ONLINE SEMINAR FOR THE FUTURE: A REFLECTION ON THE LEGACY AND TIMES OF FREDRIC JAMESON 18:00-19:30 on Wednesday 21st May 2025
The First Anglistics International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers, educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic, literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference, covering a wide range of academic perspectives
Please see below a Call for Papers for Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to Today, a conference marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The event will take place on 9–10 January 2026 at the University of Sussex and in Lewes, where Paine lived from 1768 to 1774.
‘African Atlantic Lives and Visual Culture’ is a new network that seeks to build research community, foster dialogue and advance knowledge of visual cultures of and in the African Atlantic. AALVC’s interdisciplinary focus on visual culture brings together participants from film and screen studies, art history, print culture, and stage and performance studies backgrounds. Researchers at all career stages, including postgraduates, are invited to be in touch if they are interested in joining the network. Contact: Dr Jenny Terry j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk
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