Uses of Literature Online Conference 3-5 Nov 2021. Keynotes: Rita Charon, #TorilMoi, Sean Latham, and Heather Love. Conference panels: Attachment, New Sociologies of Literature, Teaching Literature, Rethinking Class, and Narrative Medicine. Registration: event.sdu.dk/usesofliteratu…

Registration now open for "Uses of Literature" conference: 4 fabulous keynotes (Toril Moi, Heather Love, Rita Charon, Sean Latham) plus 87 speakers from 19 countries: event.sdu.dk/usesofliteratu…

Postdoctoral position in contemporary anglophone Literature at the University og Southern Denmark sdu.dk/da/service/led… sdu.dk/da/service/led…

Join us in a couple of weeks for lunch talks on humanities and AI with two stellar presenters, Anna Foka and Sophie Wennerscheid. Nov 16 online only, Nov 24 hybrid (Aarhus and everywhere).

We have the pleasure to announce Sophy Kohler's PhD Defence: "Reading for relation. Forms of Attachment in Contemporary Migration Literature". When: Nov 11 2021 at 1.00pm (Danish time). Further details and registration: event.sdu.dk/phd11november #GrundforskFond

A fascinating paper by William Bridges on the pedagogy of the possible - we can put literature to use to understand not only the actual but the possible, in service of seeking out a more equitable future. #usesofliterature Uses of Literature

Tom Boland provided an exciting introduction to dystopiology - what do visions of the apocalypse and the end teach us about society? Also discussed the role of the 'test' as an essential element of contemporary dystopic fiction. Uses of Literature #usesofliterature

Our colleague @Ben01Davies & @LockdownReading are presenting their research on reading & race this evening Uses of Literature conference. @UoP_SASHPL UoP Humanities and Social Sciences CEISR at University of Portsmouth

I’ve enjoyed the first day of the Uses of Literature conference! Tomorrow, I’ll be in a panel on New Sociologies of Literature and Temporality with a paper about why print is a thing of the contemporary - - -

Heather K Love delivers a great keynote, drawing on her new book "Underdogs", exploring queer theory’s debt to sociology + the effect of this elision for the field today. Love suggests that sociological description could be a powerful tool for litcrit! Uses of Literature #usesofliterature

(Why) do social scientist read fiction and what do the read? We tried to ask them nature.com/articles/s4159…

"Theater of the Precariat" won an award!

Congratulations to Peter Simonsen and Mathies G. Aarhus! Winners of the L.S. Dembo Prize for the best article published in the journal Contemporary Literature during this volume year Peter Simonsen Mathies G. Aarhus Contemporary Literature Danmarks Grundforskningsfond x.com/C_L_Journal/st…

We are thrilled to announce that Sophy Kohler obtained the PhD-degree today (November 11, 2021) on the thesis "Reading for relation. Forms of attachment in contemporary migration literature". Congratulations Sophy! @sophykohler Danmarks Grundforskningsfond

Social Scientists and fiction: DIAS researchers @bgyazell and Klaus Petersen take stock of uses of literature (fiction) in social science. What books to read – and why? #DIASSDU Uses of Literature #DanishCentreforWelfareStudies, #interdisciplinarity rdcu.be/cAIRF

I Kort Nyt fra November står ATLAS klar med et nyt studie om leverens døgnrytme, mens der er hele to forskningsnyheder fra både DynaMo Center og Rita Felski Niels Bohr Professorrat. Alt dette og meget mere her: dg.dk/kort-nyt-fra-n… #dkforsk #dkvid

Congratulations to Mathies! 🎉

Er du vild med dansk forskning og dygtig til kommunikation? Så er du måske vores kommende kollega. Du kan læse det fulde opslag og ansøge her: dg.dk/om-fonden/fond…

"En national forskningsdagsorden med en humaniora, der er sendt til tælling, vil ikke bare være en fattig dagsorden, men også være en dagsorden, der gør Danmark fattigere." Læs Klaus Petersen, Lars Boje Mortensen og Anne-Marie Mais kronik til Kristeligt Dagblad her: sdu.dk/en/forskning/d…

Online seminar "Biographical Turns" 3-4 Feb 2022. The seminar will discuss biographical turns in literary studies and in history. Confirmed speakers: Siri Hustvedt, Jesper Wung-Sung, Eva Tind etc. Registration, programme etc.: event.sdu.dk/biographicaltu… Danmarks Grundforskningsfond