The RAI is pleased to support the tenth annual conference of the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW), to be held on Thursday 6 July 2017 at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Further information is available here: https://shawsociety.net/

Border Crossings: Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific Society for the Study of American Women Writers & Université Bordeaux Montaigne Dates: 5th – 8th July 2017 Venue: Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France Conference director: Stéphanie Durrans Conference website: https://ssaww2017.sciencesconf.org/  To maintain a continuity with our previous conference (in Philadelphia, November 2015) on liminality and hybrid lives, we would like this first SSAWW conference in Europe to address the significance of “border crossing” in the lives and works of American women writers. Such experiences have always been important to American women. Early diaries and travel notes left by 17th– and 18th-century women provide us with valuable records of and about their migratory experience to the New World and their lives and experiences in America. Besides offering more records of such experiences, the 19th century also witnessed an explosion in travel writing, fiction, and poetry treating with travel, as […]

English: Shared Futures, 5-7 July 2017, Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://www.englishsharedfutures.uk What is English: Shared Futures? ‘English: Shared Futures’ (E:SF) is a the first time that all the branches of English – literature, language and creative writing – have come together to talk about and celebrate their subject, and to explore its futures in the nations of the UK and across the world. Writers, critics, academics, teachers, and linguists will unite in a festival event, part celebration, part conversation, part cultural fringe. E:SF is being held in Newcastle and will show-case the excellent literary culture of the region, its writers, and  publishers (e.g. Bloodaxe). We’ll also be joining in with the 50th anniversary commemorations of Newcastle University’s awarding Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree in 1967. Content Alongside over 150 panels, readings, and workshops, we have: Talks on literary biography from Hermione Lee, Kathryn Hughes, Andrew Hadfield; Deborah Cameron on 'Language and […]