Onoto Watanna’s Cattle at 100: Indomitable Women in the West During the Chinese Exclusion Era 27-30 July 2023 / University of Calgary and Chinese Cultural Centre Conference Keynotes will include: Lily Cho (York University), author of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens Nancy Rao (Rutgers University), author of Chinatown […]
Call for Contributions Edited Collection: Shelter in Text This is a call for scholarly articles and longform creative essays for an edited collection entitled Shelter in Text, which interrogates the relationship between the physical and textual spaces we inhabit. We invite work that probes the relationship between literature and shelter–interpreted […]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Anne Carson and the Unknown – Explorations in 21st-Century Experimental Poetry UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 24-25 May 2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Laura JANSEN, Associate Professor in Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol; Ian RAE, Associate Professor of English, King’s University College at Western University; Christine WIESENTHAL, Professor […]
The Thirteenth International Milton Symposium will be held at the University of Toronto, 10-14 July 2023. The Symposium welcomes scholars from across the world for five days of lively discussion and convivial exchanges. Plenary speakers include Achsah Guibbory, Lorna Hutson, Nicholas McDowell, Feisal Mohamed, Su Fang Ng, and […]
Where From Here? September 15 – 16, 2022 – University of Guelph In the wake of the global pandemic, environmental disaster, the war in Ukraine, the protests against anti-Black racism and police violence in Canada, the discovery of unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools, and […]
