Our six-month anniversary sale (50% off your first six months!) continues for one more week, and we've unlocked another piece from our archives to celebrate: Maria Temming's deep dive into the world of conlang speakers, including Klingon, High Valyrian, Dothraki, Elvish, and Na’vi. Read or listen:

How Fans Make Fictional Languages Real

Na’vi, Klingon, and other conlangs get more use IRL than they ever have onscreen.

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Episode 22 is available now, featuring a fantastic interview with Jacqueline Dutton about indigenous futurism, utopia, and much more. There's also a chance to win a copy of Wastelands and Wonderlands. Repost this along with additional instructions in the episode. open.spotify.com/episode/1Et2...

Episode 22: Jacqueline Dutton, 'Indigenous Futurism', and Utopianism and Place

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Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

Deadline extended to 16 November! @asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social

Julia Ditter@juliaditter.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

#AcademicSky Please share this call for #ComicsStudies chapters for our proposed Companion to International Comics Studies as widely as possible. Full details here ow.ly/5vY050XipXT and deadline for proposals is 31 Jan 2026.

I'm going to be speaking online on the topic of 'Science Fiction Techno-Futures and the Medical Humanities' for the Literature and Science Forum on Wed 2nd July, 5pm BST: literaturesa.co.uk/about-us

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Had a wonderful time at the @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now conference at Stirling University last week, finding solidarity with colleagues at this difficult time for English & humanities. Chaired a fantastic panel on Global English @agnes555.bsky.social @rsazzad.bsky.social & Tara Senanayake

In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social‬, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri. Read & access here:

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – A Tribute through the Wasafiri Archive

In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive.

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BACLS WHN 2025: Conference Registration now open! The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link: shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...

World Literature Podcast Parts 2 & 3 on the 20th Anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with me and Laura Colombino, and hosted by Ivan Stacy, is now available on their YouTube channel youtu.be/1vILMft2DkQ?... #ishiguro #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego #faber

Never Let Me Go with Laura Colombino and Yugin Teo - part 2

YouTube video by The World Literature Podcast

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go turned 20 in March, and I was kindly invited, together with Laura Colombino, to participate in Ivan Stacy’s World Literature Podcast to discuss the novel and some themes that have developed in that time. Part 1 here: youtu.be/Ttsz-Vt2MbE?... #ishiguro #neverletmego

Never Let Me Go with Laura Colombino and Yugin Teo - part 1

YouTube video by The World Literature Podcast

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NOW OUT! Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, ed. by me, @mariettarosetta.bsky.social, and Donna McCormack. @edinburghup.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @the-polyphony.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5f6x94se

I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em>

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

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If anyone would be interested in joining me and Sandro in proposing a panel on scholarly fields & literature - transhistorical - for the BSLS 2024 Conference in Birmingham do get in touch! MedHum, EnvHum, or any other approaches welcome. Deadline is in two weeks

Sandro Eich@sandropology.bsky.social · 3y ago

Absolutely, that would be great 😍😍 Maybe we could even frame it as a panel on diachronic perspectives on the relationship between literary studies and the institutionalization of new scholarly disciplines/fields? I'll email you now!