Viral Memes : Research and Reflections on the Coronapocalypse
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Viral Memes : Research and Reflections on the Coronapocalypse
The University of Edinburgh, in association with the National Library of Scotland, will be hosting a free online Conference 20-21 November, 2020. Submissions are invited by 20 August, 2020. November 2020 marks the centenary of the first meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva.
52nd Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
March 11-14, 2021 / Philadelphia, PA
Ọyẹ: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture is an academic journal domiciled in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. It seeks to publish insightful research from established and emerging scholars on all aspects of English Language, Literature and Popular Culture, especially as they relate to Africa and to the Black Diaspora.
For its third edition which will be published in December 2020, Ọyẹ will be focusing on the language, literature and popular culture of Ekiti State.
Active Travel Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal intended to provide a source of authoritative research on walking, cycling and other forms of active travel. In the context of a climate emergency, widespread health problems associated with inactivity, and poor air quality caused in large part by fossil-fuel transport, the journal is relevant and timely.
The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
01 Jun 2020 and 08 Jun 2020.
Reviewed for H-Disability by Michelle Jarman
Dolmage, Jay. _Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher
Education_. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. 254
pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-472-05371-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=52325
Reviewed for H-War by Meredith Tuttle Stukey
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 1 June 2020 to 8 June 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Heroines of the Holocaust: Frameworks of Resistance
Wagner College Holocaust Center
June 2-3, 2021
“Nobody taught us how to fight or to perform our duties. We learned by ourselves not only how to clean and use a gun, but how to conduct ourselves in combat and battle, how to blow up a bridge or a train, how to cut communication lines and how to stand on guard.”
This session will analyze representations of armed conflict in contemporary media, exploring how these representations might influence the popular understanding of global and civil conflict and the way that these representations of conflict might be read as an attempt to change (or maintain) a certain world.