The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran are organizing the 2023 Media and Information Literacy Seminar with the main theme of “A Collective Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 25 October 2023, which coincides with the World Development Information Day and United Nations Day.

The Sixth Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar commemorates the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (24 – 31 Oct) that highlights the 13th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference and the seventh Youth Agenda Forum.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.

    Historically in the United States of America, immigrants of Asian origin have been the subject of extremely violent legal measures—one need only recall the 1882 “Chinese Exclusion Act” or the other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD November 9-11, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism

***VIRTURAL Travel and Tourism! How has lockdown affected travel around the globe?***

Culture, Theory and Critique invites proposals for guest edited issues.  

The Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing, and Media Communication and the Department of History, Social Sciences & Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

The Works and Influence of Charles Portis: A Symposium

November 2-5,  2023 

A Call for Papers on the Works and Influence of author, veteran, journalist, bureau chief, and Arkansawyer, Charles Portis for a Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.  In celebration of the May 2023 publication of the Library of America series, The Collected Works of Charles Portis, edited by Jay Jennings, this symposium explores the writing and cultural influence of Portis.  

Brontë Studies is delighted to announce the launch of an Essay Prize established in honour of Margaret Smith. The Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognize and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars.

Since people with certain deformities have been part and parcel of mankind then why they should be ignored, oppressed, and marginalized. They have even outshined in every field including literature, science, music, dance, sports, and politics. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, George Washington, Hellen Keller, Franklin D Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Ludwig Van Beethovan, Walt Disney, Sudha Chandran, Ravindra Jain, Arunima Sinha are a few names who never allowed their physical weakness to take over their spirit. They successfully created their own history.

The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held in person at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023. For more information, visit https://www.pamla.org/pamla2023/

Canadian Literature and Culture

Call for Book Chapters: “The Senses and Memory”

Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume on the subject of “The Senses and Memory.”

In the field of sensory studies, the role of memory in sensory perceptions has always been a central preoccupation. From smell’s “Proust effect” to music’s ability to improve memory and mood, the senses are processed in the brain in particular ways that highlight the strong link between remembering and sensing the world. Likewise, the senses work in tandem, through synesthesia, to evoke feelings and sensations of a past event. The body plays a central role in navigating the world, and the senses provide routes to past, at times forgotten, memories.

Decolonization and Development for Africa and People of African DescentUniversity of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)November 2-4, 2023

Conveners:

• University of Dayton Human Rights Center
• Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
• University of the Free State Centre for Human Rights, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 22, 2023)

Revisiting the Early Modern Green Spaces

2023 UAAC-AAUC Conference Panel session [https://uaac-aauc.com/cfp2023/]

Location: BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, Banff, AB, Canada 

Date: October 19-21 octobre, 2023

Panel moderator: Iraboty Kazi, Western University, ikazi3@uwo.ca

Climate Crisis, Lyric Crisis?:Contemporary Poetry and the Environment

 

‘Un-/

natural says the news. Also the body says it.’ Jorie Graham

 

‘I place my feet/

with care in such a world.’ William E. Stafford

 

‘Task: to be where I am.’ Tomas Tranströmer

 

Moveable Type is the journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Movement'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme. Submissions are welcome from across the arts & humanities and beyond. All submissions should be sent to editors.moveabletype@gmail.com by midnight on 15 May 2023. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your choice of topic prior to submission. See below for submission guidelines.

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