I had the pleasure of presenting at the Territorial Bodies Conference Conference yesterday on the 🌊 Aquatic Bodies panel alongside Beatriz Arnal Calvo and Dr Giulia Champion. We spoke about the fluidity of rivers, submerged epistemologies, and oceanic citizenship. Image from @geo_coe

Thanks for the invitation and for putting on such a stellar conference, Territorial Bodies Conference! Exhausted but buzzing with ideas from the amazing work presented.

Territorial Bodies Conference gave me the opportunity to think and write about Ray Charles, space cowboys, Evian ads and spatial justice - among other things. Tremendous conference, brilliantly run by CharlotteSpear and @maddiesinclair_. You can find my paper here: mechanicaldolphin.com/2023/02/24/spa…

Flying back home today. Had a tremendous time at Territorial Bodies Conference organized by @MaddieSinclair_ & CharlotteSpear. Beautiful research presented. Blown away. Nice to meet Dr Giulia Champion at last ! Happy screening my last performances #Ototeman and presenting my paper. Brilliant !

📣 Just a few days left to send your abstracts. The deadline is this Sunday, 26th March! 👇

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 The BCLA PG and ECR Conference ‘Spectres, Spectrums and Spectrality: New and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Comparative and World Literature’ 🗓 Thursday 12th - Friday 13th October 2023 📍University of Warwick ⏰ Deadline for submissions: 31st July

🚨Super excited to share the CFP for the 2023-2024 NVPoco Seminar Series, Broadening Temporalities: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Literature🚨

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Territorial Bodies edited collection is now under contract with Routledge (Warwick Series in the Humanities). We can’t wait to share more exciting work on the intersection between crisis, bodies and territories in world culture!

Excited to be included in this forthcoming Routledge Books volume on 'Territorial Bodies' with a (yet to be finalised) chapter tentatively entitled 'Embodied-Embodying Geographies and the Stiff Upper Lip: Keeping Calm and "Staying Alert" while Some(bodies) Carry On' #BodyPolitics

Ah 🥳! I am so excited to be contributing to this collection with Routledge edited by @MaddieSinclair_ & CharlotteSpear . I am working on a chapter entitled 'Breaking the Body: Blackness and Animality in David Dabydeen's Slave Song'

Unsettled by recent events at Sycamore Gap, myself and fellow PhD researcher Nicola Hamer are embarking on a creative-critical project. The resulting series of interview-based poem-objects will respond to ecological absences and gaps, and how those gaps are framed. #SycamoreGap

Our next seminar will be taking place online on Tuesday 16th January 2024 at 5.30pm (UK time). You can register for the event here: form.jotform.com/233385755402357

Another book chapter & its open access 🎉 My chapter uses Caribbean neo-slave poems to argue that the idea of white ‘wholeness’ emerges as an illusion maintained by the dual fragmentation of Blackness and nonhuman life. 🔗: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-ed…

Our book, ‘Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production: Territorial Bodies’ is now available — open access! You can download it for free here: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/… Thank you to all the brilliant authors who contributed to this collection!

New publication! Very happy and proud to finally see in print (open access!) a volume that grew out of a wonderful conference in Warwick some years ago (Territorial Bodies Conference), examining cultural production and body politics in the age of permanent polycrisis.

📢 CfP: A hybrid conference at Warwick themed on Solidarity. We seek to ask what it means to stand in solidarity, how is it built & what are the challenges involved, and analyses/perspectives on historical & contemporary solidarity campaigns in support of emancipatory struggles.