Speculative fiction creators regularly interrogate the question of who/what is entitled to human rights. As the created, grown, augmented, and manufactured beings of imagination become more sentient, is it ethical to maintain them as labor-saving devices or will they start to become entitled to, or even demand, rights? Is there a Posthuman Rights Movement in our future or a post “human rights” movement? How will this movement accommodate already-existing arguments for the rights of non-human beings, such as the rights of animals, corporations, and even fetuses, while accounting for humans who are not entitled to human rights? Does one need a human-ish form to deserve rights including around one’s labor?

Proposed submissions are requested for an edited collection of chapters, tentatively titled Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature.

Special Issue: Bio-adaptations (Adaptation, Oxford University Press)

Canadian Journal of Film Studies 
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Special Issue: Barbenheimer

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Old age and aging are biological as well as sociocultural constructs and processes; they cannot be completely separated, but rather they influence each other and get interrelated with the passing of time. As sociocultural constructs, old age, aging and their definition are not immovable concepts and, in fact, vary depending on the different historical, social and cultural contexts.   Likewise, the definition and organization of each of the population groups by age are not fixed. For example, for decades, 65+ has been agreed upon by the UN and the WHO, among others, as the beginning of old age; however, market studies propose 50+ and establish two groups: 50+ seniors and 75+ seniors.

In the age of technological revolution, the changes brought by AI are reshaping various facets of society, including how we approach education in the Humanities. In the context of college composition, communication, English literature and other humanities subject classes, AI is revolutionizing writing pedagogy and practice. AI-assisted writing tools and large language models (LLMs) present new challenges and opportunities, creating what Sundvall describes as a “technological problematic” in the composition classroom, which revolutionizes some traditional writing processes and practices we’ve been using for a long time.