WorldLiterature

Read Rashmi Varma on 'Extracting Indigeneity' and others in Cultural Inquiry 'The Work of World Literature' eds/ Francesco Giusti & Benjamin Lewis Robinson @iciberlin ow.ly/aTvk50FsJRn

Check out this recorded discussion on New Marxist Approaches to Literature and Art w/ Colleen Lye, Christopher Nealon, Ericka Beckman, Leigh Claire La Berge, Marijeta Bozovic, Rossen Djagalov @redmayseattle ow.ly/wKT550FsJxM

Live streams of festival talks available here for those who missed the 2021 Bocas Lit Fest Bocas Lit Fest ow.ly/7QPf50EMBwx

@NTNUnorway @NTNU is accepting applications for funded PhDs in the Faculty of Humanities until 15th September. See here for details: ow.ly/ynYg50FsIXO

18th July closing date for Curator, Caribbean Collections post at the British Library @britishlibrary : ow.ly/5FW750FsJ8Y

Job Alert: full-time, permanent Lecturer/ Assistant Prof job in Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies in University College Dublin, focusing on drama/theatre/performance from the Global South or Continental Europe. Apps due June 29th. ow.ly/TtgL50F1bZO

Register by 18th June for the 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies on Zoom, 5-10 July, 2021 @SocCaribbean ow.ly/hbPE50EMyVq

Out now: Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel Fictions of the State under Neoliberalism by Robert Spencer. ow.ly/WX1i50Deew8

A week today 24th May is Kei Miller's UK launch of his new collection of essays 'Things I Have Withheld' @keimiller @canongatebooks w/ @MarlonJames5 & @TanyaShirley1 , ow.ly/rcv950EMyYg

Applications now being reviewed for Assistant Professor post in Black Canadian Literature @UCalgary ow.ly/f2xy50EMB5X

Call for Chapter Proposals for Edited Volume: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman. Editors Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy and Dr. Paul Ugor. Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2021. Details here: ow.ly/NtSW50EFnD9

Job Alert: full-time, fixed term 2 years; Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London. Apps due 28 May. ow.ly/R1OV50EFnLN

You can still watch Kwanzaa Collective UK's excellent film about their fascinating project on poetry, photography, and black careworkers and Covid @PSCNTU @NTUBonGallery @NTUEngLit here: youtu.be/RJWqAVY-r8Q - @PSA_poco @WorldLitNetwork @Blklivesmatter @McrPoco @Northernpoco

24th May deadline for abstracts for the for the inaugural conference of MMU's Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies @ManMetUni 'Breaking Boundaries' Sept 2021

Check out the work of Jamaica's 2021-4 Poet Laureate, Olive Senior ow.ly/DQgj50E8vp4

29-30th April, Queer Epistemicides. Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities conference @univofstandrews modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/2…; queerepistemicides.com

Next week, online talk by Dr Karina Vernon @karina_vernon 'The Disciplinary Intimacies of Canadian, Black and Indigenous Studies' Wed 21st April 3.30-5 GMT @AmCanNotts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-discipli…

6th May, Paul Gilroy @bungatuffie speaks on 'Anti-racism as Politics' for his VIRTUAL IAS Festival Inaugural Lecture @UCL_SPRC ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

The ERC Project “Poetry Off the Page” is advertising for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Black British Spoken-Word Poetry. 3.5 years fixed term, 35h/week. ow.ly/zUnV50E8ucs . Deadline: 15 Apr @JuliaLajtaNovak ow.ly/2qzz50E8uct

4 year PhD Studentship at the Uni of East Anglia: Other Words, Other Worlds: Diversifying Narratives of a Climate-changing Planet, offers an opportunity to decolonise climate change discourse. Apps due 15 April ow.ly/P8Fq50E7xJ1