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Scholarships for graduate students, postdocs, and early career scholars are available for the Advancing Research and Collaboration Conference in Philadelphia this month. Scholarships cover conference fees and accommodation. For more information and to apply, see the conference website. From the conference organizers: By engaging diverse communities of scholarship and practice, ARCS…
The Clean Reader app, launched by a couple in Idaho in the US, has announced that after significant feedback from authors, many of whom did not want their work being sold in connection with the app, it has “taken immediate action to remove all books from our catalogue”. Clean Reader…
The Executive Council approved the following statement in March 2015. In its 2009 Statement on Academic Freedom, the Modern Language Association recognized that “despite a long history of the defense of academic freedom, each generation of scholars faces new challenges to its protection.” The recent murders and disappearances of students…
Beyond the Professoriate: A Virtual Conference for PhDs in Career Transition Hosted by Maren Wood (Lilli Research Group) and Jennifer Polk (From PhD to Life) May 2 and 9, 2015 Attend one day: US $25 Attend two days: US $39 Register at: beyondprof.com/registration Career Day (May 2, 2015) 11:00 A.M….
From the Paris Review’s conversation with Elena Ferrante, the first in-person interview the writer has granted. At fifteen I began to write stories about brave girls who were in serious trouble. But the idea remained — indeed, it grew stronger — that the greatest narrators were men and that one…
Forty years after her death, her work is a reminder of the urgent need for us to learn how to think together – and how to imagine the university as a place in which such thinking matters. Jon Nixon, author of Hannah Arendt and the Poetics of Friendship, in the…
And as long as critics and publishers frame African literature as always on the cusp, it will continue to be an emerging literature whose emergence is infinitely deferred. Aaron Bady, writing in the Chronicle.