Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

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Excited to announce the Spring 2025 World Literature Webinar Series featuring Gisèle Sapiro, Alexandre Gefen, Didier Coste, Venkat Mani and Christopher Gogwilt! Stay tuned for details. #WorldLiterature #WebinarSeries

Have just read on Facebook that New Zealand has cut Humanities and Social Sciences research off from public funding. This short-sighted decision undermines critical thinking and cultural understanding. A warning to us all: this could happen elsewhere. #HumanitiesMatter #SaveTheHumanities

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Excited to share Conrad and World Literature, a special issue of The Conradian I co-edited with Christopher GoGwilt. It explores Conrad’s work in a global context, with fresh perspectives on space, time, and literary connections. #JosephConrad #WorldLiterature

Golden Globes 2025: Ariana Grande, Nicole Kidman and Timothee Chalamet among nominees Selena Gomez and Nicole Kidman are also among the contenders as Hollywood's award season kicks off.

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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture

Sad news. The decline of English Literature degrees marks a profound cultural shift, jeopardizing future generations' access to the critical thinking, empathy, and intellectual depth that only literature can cultivate.
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My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Symposium 2025 Call for Papers  Convenors:   Marialena Avgerinou (marialena.avgerinou@kuleuven.be) Sonja Faaren Ruud (sonjafaaren.ruud@kuleuven.be)  Polyphony and silence are concepts that refer to sonorit…

Polyphony & Silence Symposium 2025 at KU Leuven! collab-lit.com/symposium-20...

Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87 A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

Thanks for all the fish! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

Join us for our online workshop where Pelin Akkaya Yerli will present her work “Socialisation dynamics and the neoliberal transformation in Turkey” on 18 November (14:15, UKT).

The work will be discussed by Seda Demiralp and Kerem Çoban.
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