Gender, Translocality and the City

CfP:
Intersectional Perspectives on Gender and Politics
4 – 8 September 2023
Charles University, Prague

Intersectional Perspectives on Gender and Politics We are the leading scholarly society concerned with the research and teaching of political science in Europe, headquartered in the UK with a global membership.

CALL FOR PAPERS
14, 15 & 16 June 2023 | University of Warwick, UK
Our interdisciplinary conference, Un/Building the Future: The Country and the City in the Anthropocene, will explore the co-constitution of the urban and rural in the face of the Anthropocene. Raymond Williams’s iconic The Country and the City (1973), which our title alludes to, scrutinised how the emergence of capitalism in the nineteenth century capsized ingrained narratives of urban and rural life. Un/Building the Future is concerned with whether the shifting environmental contours of the twenty-first century are having a similarly radical effect.

We are interested in contributions that examine how the unfolding environmental catastrophe is disturbing and reforming the symbolisations of the country and city, producing new locales, both real and imaginary, that are not quite contained by our traditional spatial horizons. How are the categories of the country and the city morphed by the ecological crisis? What does thinking these concepts together help us to understand about current climate trajectories? Are these ideas of the urban and the rural even viable, or must they be radically rethought? How are the spatial imaginaries of the Anthropocene approached from different perspectives in the field, whether that be feminist, q***r, anti-racist, decolonial, Marxist or posthumanist?

Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene The climate crisis is inextricably bound up with the divide between the country and the city. It is no accident that the burning of fossil fuels and the urbanisation of the world have advanced in lockstep in recent centuries, while the demands of agribusiness, especially livestock farming, have simu...

Check out this brand new article published by Saleh Chaoui, our PhD student, in Brill's Religion and Gender!
"Navigating the Religious in the Cosmopolitan: Displaced Muslim Female Identities in Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly"
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) explores a new space which problematizes the intersections between religion, cosmopolitanism, and displacement. Camilla Gibb employs the trope of the journey to trace the ways in which the female protagonist, Lilly, transforms in a transnational context. The narrative depicts multiple journeys that Lilly undertakes between the West and the East. Such geographical displacements are pivotal to her complex spiritual self-discovery. Lilly, a white Ethiopian Muslim, embraces Sufi Islam which helps her resist forms of alienation and discrimination. Therefore, as I argue in this paper, religion can be a constitutive component in the formation of female cosmopolitan subjectivity. Understanding cosmopolitanism as a disposition that is not necessarily secular in its orientation, this article investigates the transformative role of religion in the debates surrounding “new cosmopolitanism.” I argue that through Lilly’s journey, the narrative depicts religion as a central feature of cosmopolitan identity which disrupts the orientalist bent associated with East/West dichotomies.

Navigating the Religious in the Cosmopolitan Abstract Sweetness in the Belly (2005) explores a new space which problematizes the intersections between religion, cosmopolitanism, and displacement. Camilla Gibb employs the trope of the journey to trace the ways in which the female protagonist, Lilly, transforms in a transnational context. The na...

Join our online book launch roundtable to take place at the 15th biennial conference of The Hungarian Society for the Study of English.

This roundtable discussion aims to present the edited volume entitled Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West, published by Brill in 2021. The book will be introduced by Mirjam Sági, Assistant Research Fellow at the Eötvös Loránd Research Network’s Institute for Regional Studies. The presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the two editors, Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi, and several contributors to the volume. Issues concerning the significance of affect in literary studies and cultural geography will be explored.

January 27th 15:30
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We are very happy to share Mirjam Sági's excellent review of our edited volume, Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture, published earlier this year by Brill:

Györke, Á. and Bülgözdi, I. (eds.): Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West | Hungarian Geographical Bulletin Györke, Á. and Bülgözdi, I. (eds.): Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West Mirjam Sági Institute for Regional Studies, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Békéscsaba, Hungary DOI: https://doi.or...

Call for Papers: Q***r Heritage: Central Europe and Beyond
Ikonotheka | Journal of the Institute of Art History
University of Warsaw
Editors-in-chief: Zuzanna Sarnecka and Wojciech Szymański
Editors of the issue: Wojciech Szymański (University of Warsaw) and Robert Kusek (Jagiellonian University in
Krakow)

In celebration of Women's History Month, Cambridge University Press compiled a collection of articles and book chapters which are free to access through the whole of March:

International Women's Day and Women's History Month A collection of books, book chapters and articles.

HJEAS books HJEAS Books, New Series The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) will launch a series of books to be published by Debrecen University Press beginning in 2022 that will reflect scholarship in the areas covered by the Journal, which include but are not limited to the literature...

Call for papers: Literature and Space

Call for papers – NorLit2021 - NTNU Call for papers at NorLit2021, Trondheim, Norway

Free online event, booking required.

Leaders in SHAPE: Judith Butler Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Judith Butler joins Conor Gearty for the next event in the Leaders in SHAPE series to discuss their life and career.