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We're pleased to announce our third and final symposium in our series, Canons & Values in Contemporary Literary Studies.
Saturday 12th December, via @CCLC_bham on Zoom.
Deadline for flash papers is 28th October.
Register attendance by 1st December.
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CFP: The Everyday Apocalypse: Essays on the Domestication of the End of the World
Living in an age of extinction and how ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ became ‘Just Another Day.’ As seen in 21st C films, texts, comic, games, etc.
300 word abstracts end June 2022: [email protected]
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Our colleagues at @Theory_UoB are guest editing the next Alluvium special issue with a thematic focus on "Futurity in Crisis". Full CfP here: alluvium-journal.org/2021/02…
Please share widely! @BACLS_official @ccl_bbk @C21Research @MoCoLitTCD @contempstudies @contemp_studies
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📢#CFP extension to 20 Feb 2021!📢
More time to send us your abstracts for our #douglascoupland online #conference! We welcome proposals on Coupland’s fiction, non-fiction & visual art from any disciplines and perspectives.
Full CFP douglascouplandconference.wo…
#AcademicChatter
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A few days left to send your abstracts for our #douglascoupland online #conference! We welcome proposals on Coupland’s fiction, non-fiction & visual art from any disciplines and perspectives.
🗓️#CFP closes 1 Feb: douglascouplandconference.wo…
#AcademicChatter #BookTwitter
Now onto the flash papers! Topics: nationalism and polyglottism, speculative fiction and inverted hauntology, digital literature and digital spaces, neoliberal capitalism in women's memoirs, traumatic memory, cars and the contemporary #canonsvalues2020
Our panel on teaching the contemporary in 2020 - papers on Jameson, the predictive capabilities of fiction, and a tutor/student co-presentation on Reality Hunger #canonsvalues2020
Morning everyone! We're logging in for this morning's workshop Canons and Values in 2020, which begins at 10am.
The day's schedule is here: contemporarycanons.wordpress…
Follow along with us or via @CCLC_bham
Our workshop discussion is underway - we're tracking the questions and comments here: padlet.com/contemporarycanon…
What are the current preoccupations and concerns of contemporary literary studies and have they changed in 2020?
Given the effect of the pandemic on our mental and physical health, will this year changed how we research and teach the present?
#canonsvalues2020
Today is the last day to register for our final canons symposium. Check out the schedule and come along!
We're thrilled to announce the schedule for our workshop/symposium this SATURDAY 12th December.
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All papers uploaded for recap/discussion on the day. Eventbrite open for registry until 10th December.
We're thrilled to announce the schedule for our workshop/symposium this SATURDAY 12th December.
contemporarycanons.wordpress…
All papers uploaded for recap/discussion on the day. Eventbrite open for registry until 10th December.
Papers by Rebecca Bishop-Ashton, Audrey Chan, @roulamariadib, @gray_madeleine_, @putaierma, @a_warshawski, @WilliamRBowden1, Patricia Malone, and @ularuut
Remember to register for our final symposium - Canons and Values in Contemporary Literary Studies - Saturday 12th December. Registration extended to 10th December!
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Check out our co-chair @tedilta in this cluster on Thirty Years of Generation X in @ASAP_Journal
Check out the Thirty Years of Generation X cluster now on #ASAPJ! This multimedia cluster celebrates the 30-year anniversary of Douglas Coupland's classic Generation X (1991), evaluating its legacy in the 21st century.
bit.ly/3nTbgxl
#GenerationX #DouglasCoupland
Call for flash papers extended to next Tuesday 10th November!
Flash-papers should be 5 mins max on the theme: What is Literature Now?
Full details here: contemporarycanons.wordpress…
We are particularly interested to hear brief, informal papers on the following:
We're pleased to announce our third and final symposium in our series, Canons & Values in Contemporary Literary Studies.
Saturday 12th December, via @CCLC_bham on Zoom.
Deadline for flash papers is 28th October.
Register attendance by 1st December.
contemporarycanons.wordpress…
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So thrilled about this! 'Douglas Coupland & the Art of the Extreme Present' (23-24 Apr, online) will feature a talk by Coupland himself. We're looking for abstracts about any aspect of Coupland's fiction, non-fiction&visual art. Deadline 1 Feb. Please RT! bit.ly/3dIWUMe
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The deadline for this is creeping up - 28th October for flash papers / syllabus presentations. Get in touch with any questions and email abstracts to contemporary canons[at]gmail.com.
We're pleased to announce our third and final symposium in our series, Canons & Values in Contemporary Literary Studies.
Saturday 12th December, via @CCLC_bham on Zoom.
Deadline for flash papers is 28th October.
Register attendance by 1st December.
contemporarycanons.wordpress…