Irenosen Okojie’s Short Story Tool Box South Bank Centre, London 21st January 2019 Save the date! Book tickets now! Incisive, mysterious, surprising: the short story is addictive to writers. Discover your own approach in this six-week course with Nigerian-British author… Read More ›
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Call for Applications: Research Fellow, University of Warwick (Deadline: 11th June)
The University of Warwick – English and Comparative Literary Studies – invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a Leverhulme-funded research project: “World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: The Ecology of the ‘long’ 20th Century.” This Postdoctoral Research Fellow position… Read More ›
Event: Africa Writes 2018 (London, 29th June-1st July)
It is time to save the date for Africa Writes 2018 Friday 29th June – Sunday 1st July 2018 Africa Writes returns for an exciting summer weekend at the British Library celebrating the best of contemporary literature from Africa and… Read More ›
CfP: “Boundaries”, UNISA, South Africa (Abstract deadline: 15th April)
We are delighted to announce the 4th International Interdisciplinary Biennial Conference at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Department of English Studies. The conference will take place in September, 2nd-6th, at Valley Lodge (South Africa). This is a call for… Read More ›
CfP: Archives of Resistance (deadline Jan 15th, 2018)
Image via The National Archives UK Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature Three-Day International Conference University of Leeds, June 20-22 2018
The Problem with the Prophet: Review of Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses
AiW Guest: Sarah Ahrens The first thing that struck me about the English translation of the latest novel of Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa’s arguably most successful living writer was its title: Black Moses is quite a departure from the original French… Read More ›
CfP: ALA conference 2017 – Africa and the World, deadline extended: 15 December 2016
Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies Yale University, 14-17 June 2017 New deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2016 The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today, Birmingham UK, 24 October 2015
From the Northern Comparative Literature Network Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural resistances to it, might be said… Read More ›