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Read Rashmi Varma on 'Extracting Indigeneity' and others in Cultural Inquiry 'The Work of World Literature' eds/ Francesco Giusti & Benjamin Lewis Robinson @iciberlin ow.ly/aTvk50FsJRn
Check out this recorded discussion on New Marxist Approaches to Literature and Art w/ Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon, Ericka Beckman, Leigh Claire La Berge, Marijeta Bozovic, Rossen Djagalov @redmayseattle
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Live streams of festival talks available here for those who missed the 2021 Bocas Lit Fest Bocas Lit Fest
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18th July closing date for Curator, Caribbean Collections post at the British Library @britishlibrary
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Job Alert: full-time, permanent Lecturer/ Assistant Prof job in Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies in University College Dublin, focusing on drama/theatre/performance from the Global South or Continental Europe. Apps due June 29th. ow.ly/TtgL50F1bZO
Register by 18th June for the 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies on Zoom, 5-10 July, 2021 @SocCaribbean ow.ly/hbPE50EMyVq
Out now: Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism by Robert Spencer.
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A week today 24th May is Kei Miller's UK launch of his new collection of essays 'Things I Have Withheld' @keimiller @canongatebooks w/ @MarlonJames5 & @TanyaShirley1
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Applications now being reviewed for Assistant Professor post in Black Canadian Literature @UCalgary ow.ly/f2xy50EMB5X
Call for Chapter Proposals for Edited Volume: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman. Editors Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy and Dr. Paul Ugor. Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2021. Details here: ow.ly/NtSW50EFnD9
Job Alert: full-time, fixed term 2 years; Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London. Apps due 28 May. ow.ly/R1OV50EFnLN
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You can still watch Kwanzaa Collective UK's excellent film about their fascinating project on poetry, photography, and black careworkers and Covid @PSCNTU @NTUBonGallery @NTUEngLit here: youtu.be/RJWqAVY-r8Q - @PSA_poco @WorldLitNetwork @Blklivesmatter @McrPoco @Northernpoco
24th May deadline for abstracts for the for the inaugural conference of MMU's Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies @ManMetUni 'Breaking Boundaries' Sept 2021
Check out the work of Jamaica's 2021-4 Poet Laureate, Olive Senior ow.ly/DQgj50E8vp4
29-30th April, Queer Epistemicides. Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities conference @univofstandrews modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ev…; queerepistemicides.com/
Next week, online talk by Dr Karina Vernon @karina_vernon 'The Disciplinary Intimacies of Canadian, Black and Indigenous Studies' Wed 21st April 3.30-5 GMT @AmCanNotts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-disci…
6th May, Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie speaks on 'Anti-racism as Politics' for his VIRTUAL IAS Festival Inaugural Lecture @UCL_SPRC
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The ERC Project “Poetry Off the Page” is advertising for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Black British Spoken-Word Poetry. 3.5 years fixed term, 35h/week. ow.ly/zUnV50E8ucs . Deadline: 15 Apr @JuliaLajtaNovak ow.ly/2qzz50E8uct
4 year PhD Studentship at the Uni of East Anglia: Other Words, Other Worlds: Diversifying Narratives of a Climate-changing Planet, offers an opportunity to decolonise climate change discourse. Apps due 15 April ow.ly/P8Fq50E7xJ1
New Guest Hosts announced for #LitSalon for book-lovers inc/ @Anthony1983
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@Sathnam Alexandra Heminsley & Sarah Perry.
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