“Transcultural Perspectives in Language, Literature and Culture in the 21st century”

International Conference at Le Mans Universityin association with the University of LatviaMay 19-20, 2022

Abstract submissions deadline: 15 November, 2021

Please find the details in the doc attached.

ASYRAS is happy to announce the publication of Volume 1 (Summer 2021) of GAUDEAMUS, the Journal of the Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies:
http://asyras.org/gaudeamus/>vol-1-summer-2021-2/

Hi John,

I’ve had a read through and think it is a really thoughtful and well-balanced vision and policy considering some of the current challenges and opportunities for opening up books. I’m not too familiar with similar visions and policies, some of the fully OA publishers do have a clear vision statement and the University of Michigan Press…[Read more]

The recording of our boOkmArks event with Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars & Toby Steiner of the COPIM Project on experimental OA book publishing is now available! Many thanks to our speakers for a fascinating session & to the audience for coming and bringing your questions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V5mbp48ZXIw

SOAR: Call for General Submissions
<p tabindex=”-1″ data-thread-perm-id=”thread-f:1704179544784490573″ data-legacy-thread-id=”17a67644505dd04d”>Please find enclosed our Call for General Submissions for SOAR: The Society of Americanists Review. Submissions of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to the culture of the United States are…[Read more]

A new issue of Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa has just been released:

https://www.revistahelice.com/<wbr />helice-30/

• Sara Martín, «Retrospective Posthumanism: Frankenstein According to Our Vocabulary»
• Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, «The Female, the Intertextual, and the Transhuman in William Gibson Molly Million…

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Tomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT is our last Open Cafe before we take a couple of months off to plan the next year of events and activities at the OABN. Do please join us with your beverage of choice to let us know your thoughts — are there particular topics you want us to cover, different formats we should try, something we did well,…[Read more]

We’ve opened the Free Ebook Foundation Open Access Monographs Fund! https://blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the-ebook-turns-50-fef-monographs-fund/

A new Special Issue of the journal The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 26, Issue 3-4 (2021) on Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era has been issued. 

This issue has been co-edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina and Bárbara Arizti and it can be accessed on the following website: https://www.<wbr />tan…[Read more]

Greetings Everyone. Over the past year, the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust effort hosted human centered design inspired workshops and activities to surface how scholars, publishers, libraries, platforms and services want to use OA ebook usage data. The resulting report captures both specific reporting query interests as well as aspirations for…[Read more]

Hi all, the experimental OA books event with COPIM is today at 3pm BST — hope to see you there! Find the link here: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/06/22/lets-experiment-join-us-for-a-boookmarks-event-next-tuesday/

Net of Words: El autoengendramiento de ‘Beowulf’: https://www.ibercampus.es/el-autoengendramiento-de-beowulf-41275.htm

Early Career Researchers’ Perspectives onthe Literatures and Cultures of Canada/Turtle Island

Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies (Issue 11, 2022).

Coinciding with its 11th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has recently…[Read more]

We’re delighted to announce our final two events before the summer!

After completing our series on OA books policy, ‘Voices from the OA Books Community’ (details and recordings here) we are holding two more events before taking July and August off to plan the next 12 months of activities (and maybe have a holiday!) We’re rounding our first year…[Read more]

Please find attached the CFP for our 7th International Conference. We invite you to submit your proposals on individual papers, roundtable or workshop. The deadline has been extended until July 3rd, 2021.

Call for Papers for issue 17 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2022. Submissions that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media should be sent to contributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than 1 November 2021, following the instructions detailed…[Read more]