The idea that studying the humanities generates more empathy and compassion is one that is now commonly understood. However, the humanities have been at a crossroads for these past ten odd years, since the rise of the digital humanities as “the next big thing” (Panapacker, 2009). Staunch advocates of the traditional humanities would look back and defend the discipline's ongoing relevance from its inception.
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Call for Papers for Special Issue of Museum & Society: Exhibiting Extinction
Editor: Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger
Marine Corps History journal is accepting submissions of scholarly articles focused on new and unique research into the Marine Corps’ history, from its earliest actions to the Cold War and beyond, including cultural history. The editors also are accepting book reviews.
The editors are currently accepting article and book review submissions for the Summer 2021 and Winter 2021 issues.
Submission deadlines:
Military history and conflict archaeology most often focuses on the political and military theory, tactics, and persons of past wars.
This panel brings the fields of world literature and life writing together to explore social, economic and ideological contexts informing the circulation, translation and reading of auto/biographical texts. Redefinitions of world literature highlight the “effective life” of works “within a literary system beyond that of its original culture” (Damrosch 2003) or underscore that literature now “is unmistakably a planetary system” (Moretti 2000).
Dear Graduate Community,
Oxford University’s Medieval & Modern Languages Graduate Network is pleased to finally announce its 4th annual Graduate Conference. Originally planned for June 2020, our conference had to be postponed due to the pandemic. We now came up with a virtual format to involve all members from our Graduate Community regardless of their current and future location and timezone:
Theme and Dates
Next week, Journal of the Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive will hold our first virtual workshop. Here's the info:
Toning Down and Tuning In: Addressing Archival Silences of Covid-19 Community Curation
Strife is an internationally recognised blog and peer-reviewed academic journal, led by doctoral and graduate researchers based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. We study all aspects of ‘conflict’, combining political, historical, literary, and philosophical approaches to conflict to provide thought-provoking and unique perspectives for our readers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World
April 7th- 9th 2021
Online conference / Erasmus University Rotterdam
Keynote speakers:
• Dal Yong Jin
• Sangkyun Kim
• Mimi Sheller
• Peter U. C. Dieke
• Lúcia Nagib
• Matt Hills
Chinese Diaspora: Challenges and Possibilities in a Time of Uncertainty