The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin

We are a group of international scholars looking for additionalchapters to complete our anthology on the topic of nostalgia.This anthology will broadly explore the function of nostalgia in culture. Some topics our authors are currently writing on include the relationship between nostalgia and literature;music; object ontology; personal, cultural, and familial identity; sense of longing for place; posthumanism; sexuality; game studies; and the commodification of nostalgia in culture. We welcome proposals on any of these topics or otherwise.Creativity and multimodal projects are also encouraged that appeal to a wide audience. Completed chapters should be approximately 10,000 words.