Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 13 – Sunday July 14, 2024

University College London

This is the 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Great Writing includes research, teaching and creative writing practice topics. And more! The conference takes place right in the heart of Bloomsbury, close to the British Library, in London’s fabulous ‘Knowledge Quarter’ – https://www.knowledgequarter.london/  - with a great many wonderful accommodation and restaurant options.

***Italian below*** ***Bibliography at the bottom of the page***

Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations

The concept of ‘stigma’, including the many perspectives on stigmatised identities and processes of stigmatisation, is a crucial tool to focus on alternative sexualities and their representation. The issue has been addressed in numerous disciplinary fields, with studies attempting to understand stigma both generally in terms of social dynamics (Goffman 1963 and 1969; Becker 1963; Jones et al. 1984), and in its specific relation to sexuality (Herek 1998; Evans 2002).

We inhabit a moment of accelerated urbanization primarily driven by the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in urban planning and management, most ambitiously articulated in the promises of the ‘smart city’. The ubiquity of digital information infrastructures has reshaped the form, shape, and texture of cities. Contemporary urbanity has come to be defined by ICTs. As the social, experiential and physical spaces in the city are increasingly being experienced with and through data generated by networked digital devices, digital mediations exert profound impact on how urban spaces are being reconfigured, curated and navigated.

“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.” –bell hooks

Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion

Sequestered Places, Heaving Seas: The Life and Works of M. R. James

A One-Day Symposium, Tuesday 30 April 2024

Centre for Culture and Heritage, University of Suffolk

Keynote Speakers

Simon Loxley – M. R. James and the Suffolk Landscape

Professor Matt Hills – M. R. James and Adaptation

Title: From Home to Horizon: Women Writers of Indian Diaspora

Editors:

•             Dr. Bijender Singh

•             Dr. Protibha Sahukar

•             Dr. SK Sao

•             Dr. Anurag Ambasta

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023

Concept Note:

What: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 18th Annual Conference
Where: Hybrid, hosted through The Graduate Center, CUNY
When: Friday 3 May 2024

Yellowstone (2018, Paramount Network), Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western television series that premiered in 2018, has grown into a cultural phenomenon. Not only has the show itself been enormously popular (as measured by its ratings and fan following within the United States and South Africa, for example), but its characters, and the Dutton family that are central to the story, have since been incorporated into a shared story universe covering a period from 1881 to the present day. This story is centred around the fictional Yellowstone ranch in Montana, which is both the main setting and metaphorical heart of the show.

LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY

Concept Note

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are proposing a special issue of Post-45 Journal, titled “Race and Animality Reconsidered.” In light of a host of recent interventions and discourses emerging from Black studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, and other fields, this special issue seeks to highlight contemporary work on the entanglements of racialization or racialized gendering and animalization, including what this means for the material lives of human and nonhuman animals since WWII.

The organizing committee of the 2024 ELLAK International Conference invites submissions for the special session titled “Revisiting the Korean Wave in a Global Context.” The conference will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on December 12-14, 2024, under the theme of “Rethinking the Global English Studies.”

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EUROPEAN BEAT STUDIES NETWORK
12th Annual Conference
in cooperation with the Crossroads IV conference
University of Białystok, Poland, May 13-15, 2024

“The Beats: Wilderness and Wildness”

The conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and creative performances for the 12th Annual Conference of the European Beat Studies Network, which the University of Białystok, Poland, will host on 13-15 May 2024.