We invite contributions that examine varying notions of slavery and freedom as they intersect with older and contemporary migrations from the African continent to Europe and America

Call for Panel Proposals ACCUTE 2026 - Deadline: 11 September 2025 Dear ACCUTE Members, we are pleased to announce that the 2026 ACCUTE annual conference will be held at Concordia University in Montreal, 4-7 June 2026. For full instructions:

Everyone assumes that we know what empathy is. That is, putting yourself in the other person’s shoes. That’s the assumption. I want to use my readings of literature to say it’s a little bit more complicated than that

To help us plan for ACCUTE 2026, please take a moment to complete the following short survey of ACCUTE members.

Please register for any of the workshops:

Members of ACCUTE who identify as racialized/BIPOC can apply for a new ACCUTE prize designed to recognize and celebrate research and activities that demonstrate impactful engagement with BIPOC concerns and communities. Read more>>

The Angle’s Winter 2025 issue is here! Read more about updates regarding ACCUTE Conference 2025 , a piece from Ryan J. Cox, 1st Person Interviews with Iheoma Joakin-Uzomba and Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami, and an update from the Graduate Student Caucus. https://t.co/krn5cyt3ah

My paper examines how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin uses anti-Semitic tropes to characterize Black girlhood—specifically the character Topsy— and how the novel functions as a conversion narrative aimed at Jewish women. https://t.co/ZLQoRpXq8N

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Joshua Whitehead’s strong act of activism was this act of reclaiming the Two-Spirit history to make it visible and available. By them remembering also becomes a cultural remembering and reclaiming Indigenous sexuality

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Reading the MLA Teaching Volumes: An Interview with Sarah Banting:

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ACCUTE is adding workshops to the 2025 conference program. Workshops are intensive introductions to specific methods, techniques, practices, processes, protocols, software tools, creative, critical, or theoretical approaches

“…of the Dead: The Rhizombie and Monstrous Mycelium in American Zombie Narratives,” details the central concept from my recently completed doctoral work on climate/contagion/racial entanglements

The forge of forgetting: Finding the lost language of Black cowboys—Athabasca University writer in residence talk with Bertrand Bickersteth. Date: Nov. 20, 2024 from 3 – 4 p.m. MST. Location: Online.

Here are our previous interviews: https://t.co/GVJLXClQ7s https://t.co/BQebN7YmLV https://t.co/q1g6ozY0w8

We are looking for BIPOC ACCUTE members to participate in our First Person conversation series. We are looking for people at different stages of their careers, especially contract faculty in Colleges and Universities. Interested "BIPOC" ACCUTE members can email cezenwa2@uwo.ca

Mennonite/s Writing 10: An International Conference hosted at Canadian Mennonite University Theme: Words at Work and Play June 13–15, 2025. Send your proposals of 250-word abstracts to mennowritingx@cmu.ca by November 29, 2024. Read more:

The 2025 Conference CFP for ACCUTE is now OPEN for submissions until 22nd November. We are accepting proposals of 300-500 words. The Congress will take place in George Brown College, Toronto from May 30th – June 2nd, 2025. Read more here>>> https://t.co/u8mC3zJb5B