We have extended the Call for Papers for our conference 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚 to 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 20𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, giving some extra time for submissions after the Easter break. We welcome submissions from colleagues at every career stage, and especially postgraduates.

Maika Nguyen's "My Brother, The Poet" was selected as Highly Commended in the creative non-fiction category by judge Tim MacGabhann. Read more below, and follow Maika on Bluesky: @maikanguyen.bsky.social

🖋️ really happy to be a part of @the4facedliar.bsky.social's upcoming issue - can't believe I was highly commended! I'm looking forward to reading the rest 📖

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So my first ever article from my PhD, 'Returning to Home Water(s) in Nostalgie de la rizière by Anna Moï' 🌊🏠, has recently been published in a special issue! It explores Vietnamese diasporic writing, conceptions of home, and is available - open access - here:

“We learn by making analogies,” [Marianne] Hirsch said. “Now the university is saying that’s off-limits. How can you have a university course where ideas are not up for discussion or interpretation?” Hirsch, daughter of two Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom altogether.

Just about to watch the first ever Viet-Czech feature film (also shown at the international Karlovy Vary film festival) - very excited and hopeful for more work to come! #kinolucerna #letniskola2001

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We're excited to share the programme for our upcoming 3-day, international, transdisciplinary symposium ‘From Modern Crisis to Permacrisis & Polycrisis: Epistemological Perspectives & Interventions’ (22-24 May). Attendance is free; booking essential. 22 May (Day 1): www.eventbrite.ie/e/from-moder...

Ecstatic to have passed my Viva yesterday! It was privilege to be able to discuss my work with @sharaerua.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social, and I'm grateful for all your insights and such a wonderful discussion.

You are welcome to join our 5th Spring Forum! A link to this event is available via the programme on our website: adeffi.ie/spring-forum

The European Commission has proposed setting up more migration centres, even outside of the EU, to detain and deport migrants. What that does: create spaces where we don't have to see, think about - and therefore contest - how these people are treated. ENG: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

'We must not let advanced linguistic and cultural skills slip away out of a misinformed sense that technology will solve all our problems or that colonialism’s legacy will always fatally undermine efforts to promote better transnational understanding'

Join us! Join us! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD087/a...

Given the nature of some of the submissions I've had so far, I've updated the website's Call for Submissions to include song/music! Experimentation with genre and form is very much encouraged. There's no rest for the mythic - Call for Submissions closes 30 April.

We are delighted to share a report from @maikanguyen.bsky.social (based in @ucdslcl.bsky.social) on how she benefitted from the annual Adeffi Bourse doctorale. Bonne continuation, Maika! www.adeffi.ie/laur%C3%A9at...