On what we can learn from one organization entirely focused on public scholarship and one where it’s more of a work in progress. In lieu of a full first paragraph for this post, I’m going to ask you t...

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On what we can learn from one organization entirely focused on public scholarship and one where it’s more of a work in progress. In lieu of a full first paragraph for this post, I’m going to ask you t...

[This past Saturday, I chaired my NeMLA Roundtable on a National Big Read . Each of the six participants shared interesting and provocati...

The Constitutional Court has dismissed a challenge by the South African Hunters and Game Conservation Association to animal well-being provisions in environmental legislation, finding that the association unreasonably delayed bringing its case. In a unanimous judgment written by Justice Owen Rogers, the court found that SA Hunters had failed to satisfactorily explain why it waited more than 25 months after presidential assent to the National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Act (Nemla) to launch its application. The Act received presidential assent on 21 June 2022 and the provisions at the centre of the case came into force on 30 June 2023. The case concerned amendments to the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, which required animal well-being to be considered in the management, conservation and sustainable use of animals. The judgment notes that the concept recognises animals as “sentient beings … capable of suffering and experiencing pain” and reflects a growing understanding of the relationship between biodiversity and animal welfare. It links animal welfare and suffering to the constitutional protection of the environment under section 24 of the Bill of Rights. SA Hunters argued that changes to the definition of well-being during the legislative process were significant enough to require further public...

Modality: Hybrid. The session will be held in person, but papers may also be presented remotely. This panel explores innovative uses of translation as a pedagogical practice across disciplines. It invites theoretical, critical, and practice-based work on teaching strategies that use translation to foster interpretation, rhetorical awareness, and creative engagement with texts across languages, genres, media, and cultural contexts. Papers may address comparative work with multiple translatio

The relationship of Linguistics, Language Attitudes, and Popular Culture is of paramount importance in understanding how meaning is constructed and communicated in our everyday lives. Exploring how language is used and the ideas, attitudes, and information it conveys, overtly and in more implicit ways in our popular culture allows us to better understand ourselves and the cultures we live in. Presentations may address topics in language attitudes or language-related popular culture, such as:

Colloque: 58th Annual NeMLA Convention Panel: Cripping Literary and Cultural Studies: Neurodivergent and Mad Methodologies En ligne Note: Bien que ce panel soit entièrement en anglais, les propositions s’appuyant sur des approches théoriques issues d’autres...

Somewhere in Morocco, a woman wakes up before dawn to open her cooperative. Somewhere in Africa, a young entrepreneur pitches his logistics startup to investors who have never been to his neighborhood. None of these...

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Call for papers: Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026-03-05 to 2026-03-08 Gannon University Erie, Pennsylvania. USA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B. Preciado have all underscored the normative tendencies of psychoanalysis (particularly in its structuralist Lacanian tradition) and its complicity in enforcing the regime of sexual difference.