Centre for Contemporary Literature

9 days to go! ✍️📨 Get in your abstracts by 19 May and join us in Birmingham or online for BACLS WHN 2023!

Coming sometime later this year!

Really interesting event this evening at @BirkbeckUoL @ccl_bbk with Ekow Eshun in conversation with @the_blochian about his phenomenal @haywardgallery exhibition "In the Black Fantastic", head spinning with ideas and pages of notes!

On 14 July, 5-6.30pm I will be leading an online workshop with @CHASEMedHums. We'll be examining historic and contemporary examples of risk communication in pregnancy, and putting them into dialogue. To find out more and to register go to: chase.ac.uk/events-1/medic…

📣TONIGHT! Dr Emrah Atasoy's FREE LECTURE on entangled futures & speculative worldbuilding in contemporary Turkish Literature. 6pm, The Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. Info & tickets here: ccl.bbk.ac.uk/futurisms-in-c… @birkbeck_ETC @BirkBeckArtsRes @LSFRC_

Fabulous news, well done Sasha! 👏👏👏

For anyone interested in @larsxl_hh 's CCL guest lecture last night on THE PROGRESSIVE FANTASTIC IN GERMANY, click here to listen to a recording: ccl.bbk.ac.uk/the-progressiv… ccl.bbk.ac.uk/the-progressiv… @LSFRC_ @rhysistweets @MarkBould3 @TheProfRog @mariettarosetta @sfranews @birkbeck_ETC

Don't miss @larsxl_hh 's lecture on THE PROGRESSIVE FANTASTIC IN GERMANY, part of our MA Summer Programme at @birkbeck_ETC & open to the public! TOMORROW Weds 22 June, 6-7.30pm in Bloomsbury, London. Booking & info here: ccl.bbk.ac.uk/the-progressiv… @BirkBeckArtsRes @LSFRC_

We're excited to share the CFP for "SF & Extraction," the 6th annual @LSFRC_ conference, 6-8 October 2022! How does science fiction build new worlds beyond extractivism that take the possibilities of extinction seriously? ccl.bbk.ac.uk/sf-extraction-…

Migration & Documentality | interactive panel discussion of contemporary migration, documentality & social justice | Wed, 22 Jun 2022, 20:00 BST at Goodenough College, London (free event, booking required): ccl.bbk.ac.uk/migration-docu… Organised by @agnes_woolley @birkbeck_ETC

Two more days to get in your nomination for our BACLS Edited Collection Prize!

If you'd like to catch up with A Writer's Diary, the beginning is here. It's the perfect time to join in. tobylitt.wordpress.com/2022/01/09/a-w…

Good luck!

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✨New issue of Alluvium✨ We're delighted to publish a special issue on "World Literature and the alter|native" edited by Misbah Ahmed (@misbahahhmed) and C.J. Griffin (@CJGriffin). You can read their editorial and the wonderful articles here: alluvium-journal.org/2021/10/22/all…

If you are a PGR or ECR who would like to know more about academic publishing, then pop along to the next @BACLS_official seminar tomorrow at 2pm for a roundtable on academic publishing. Details and registration here: bacls.org/conferences/ba…

"Fifth Cinema": Theorising Refugee-Led Filmmaking, discussion with Raminder Kaur and Mariagiulia Grassilli. 15 October 2021, 18:00-21:00 BST online. Includes a screening of screening of Les Sauteurs! Book your place here: ccl.bbk.ac.uk/refugee-led-fi…

In case you missed it... you can now watch the recording of Jaspreet Kaur's readings & discussion of her forthcoming memoir-manifesto BROWN GIRL LIKE ME: ccl.bbk.ac.uk/brown-girl-lik… @behindthenetra @benworthy1 @bbkpolitics @birkbeck_ETC

History of mechanics institutes is the history of Birkbeck! Join us tomorrow 15 Oct for amazing conference online. Me, Jonny Matfin & Ciaran O'Donohue speak about Birkbeck. Registration open: hw.ac.uk/alumni/watt-cl… #MIW2021 @BirkbeckUoL @HistoryToday @HistoryWO @ihr_history