Mirror mirror on the wall…

A quick post to plug a talk I'm giving tomorrow at the May meeting for the Being Non/Human discussion group, 6.30 – 8 pm in room S2.39 at King’s College London. This was supposed to be a quick post about a talk I gave on Monday at the Being Non/Human discussion group, but I forgot to...

@wethehumanities Launches Today (Guest Post)

After seven weeks of preparation, curator-sourcing and generous support, We the Humanities launches today.  It’s the first rotation-curation Twitter account for the humanities, featuring a new guest editor every week who’ll be tweeting about their work or research in the humanities and their other areas of interest.  Set up by Jessica Sage and Kristina West,...

Publication Announcement: Here Be Monsters

This week the publication of the collection I co-edited was announced. This is a collection of essays from the 10th Global Conference on 'Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil' which was held at Mansfield College, Oxford in 2012. After a brilliant conference I had the pleasure of working with my co-editor and...

CFP: Negotiating Cultural Differences in the Digital Communication Era

International Symposium organised by: Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Date: 2-3 October, 2013 Location: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland  Submission deadline: 30 June 2013 The reality of dynamically evolving communication technologies creates new models of perception, learning, shaping human relations, and cooperation. Tools for social activity provided by the so called new...

CFP – New Horizons eSharp: Issue 20

CALL FOR PAPERS New Horizons eSharp: Issue 20 eSharp, an established peer-reviewed international online journal for postgraduate research in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. For Issue 20, New Horizons, we invite articles that consider new ideas; approaches and reflections on changing situations and visions for the...

CFP: Amaltea Journal Issue 5: Myth of the Apocalypse

*This information is also available in español español and français Amaltea, an open-access refereed online journal dedicated to the reception of myths in contemporary Western literature, invites the submission of original articles for its 2013 issue.URL: http://www.ucm.es/info/amaltea/revista/eng/journal.html From now on, Amaltea (ISSN 1989-1709) will only publish original research articles in English, Spanish and French. The...

Call for Papers for eSharp: Extended Deadline

I just received this through my Uni email and so I thought I'd post it here. The deadline for the call for papers for the next edition of eSharp has been extended to 27th July.eSharp, an established peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality research by postgraduate students invites papers for the forthcoming themed issue. For Issue 19, Reality/Illusion, we...