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August 17, 2023; 12 noon (EDT, 9 am PDT, 7 pm in Turkey)

“Digital Ottoman Studies” is a special dossier, co-edited by Nora Barakat (Stanford University), Yunus Uğur (Marmara University), and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University), and published in the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association [JOTSA] 9/2 (Fall 2022): 17-266 (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49709).

Across the global south, millions of people have been engulfed by food insecurity, with covid-19, climate change, and the energy crisis pushing them further into poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, endangering their lives.

CAA (College Art Association) Annual Meeting, Chicago 14-17 February 2024

The Vietnam Studies Group 2024 Graduate Paper Prize Competition 

Deadline: Friday September 29, 2023

Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions 

Venue: School of Arts and Communication, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo Mozambique 

Date: 14-15 March 2024 

Conference: The Global Migration Turn: How New Migration Governance Changed the World in the Long 1970s, 7-8 September, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

We would like to inform you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for the workshop on Deliberation, Participation and Democracy in Contemporary South Asia: Spaces, Practices, Voices organised by the Ireland India Institute (III) and the Irish Association of South Asian Studies (IASAS) at Dublin City University (DCU) with the support of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) has been extended to Friday, August 11^th 2023.

The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania awards five (5) one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are no more than five years out of their doctorate. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions, whose proposals are interdisciplinary, who have not previously enjoyed use of the resources of the University of Pennsylvania, and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life.

Call for Papers

2024 EALA Annual Conference

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Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and National Tsing Hua University

Date: October 19, 2024

Venue: National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and penetrat[ing] them with sexual ecstasy or […] terrifying violence” (Linn). In their reception process, some media, like video games and other interactive modes of textual engagement, ask for bodily involvement that exceeds the levels to which our bodies are implicated in other media.