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Just a reminder that registration is OPEN for our FREE online ‘Literature Matters’ conference, 4-6 November. Please register for each session you’re planning to attend by 1 November, details here:

Registration closes at the end of day! Secure your free place now!

Just a reminder that registration is OPEN for our FREE online ‘Literature Matters’ conference, 4-6 November. Please register for each session you’re planning to attend by 1 November, details here:

The paper - @TellMeWhatUReadingbot: the Multi-modal Strategy of the READ-IT Project for Collecting Experiences of Reading - is a key outcome of the EU JPI-funded READ-IT project. Find out more here: https://t.co/8ka8BYMazP

Registration is now open! Please book your place at our FREE @OU_FASS & @OU_Literature #litertaturematters conference via the link here:

Registration is now open! Please book your place at our FREE @OU_FASS & @OU_Literature #litertaturematters conference via the link here:

@Beth_driscoll @hannahlowepoet Panel topics: 1 Dark Academia; 2 Digital futures?; 3 Reading for pleasure, reading for a purpose?; 4 Literature as resistance or subversion; 5 literary value, reading & publishing; 6 environment, migration & South Asia; 7 collective authorship; 8 reading aloud; 9 Latin America.

@Beth_driscoll @hannahlowepoet As well as 3 keynote lectures, the conference features 4 round table panels, 19 standard papers, and 5 short ‘lightning’ presentations. We have speakers from Australia, Germany, India, Netherlands, Nigeria, Qatar, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, the USA and the UK

Pleased to announce our keynote speakers for ‘Literature Matters’ are Guy Cook (King’s College London), Beth Driscoll (University of Melbourne) and Hannah Lowe (Brunel University) @Beth_driscoll @hannahlowepoet

The draft conference programme for our forthcoming @OU_FASS @OU_Literature ‘Literature Matters’ free online conference, 4-6 November, is out now at https://t.co/YYgtKjfpDE - registration to open soon! @SHARPorgNews @IES_London @CRASSHlive @TORCHOxford @thereaderorg

Just a quick reminder that the Call for Papers for the SHARP 2025 conference ‘Communities and Values of the Book’ (7-11 July 2025) is now open at https://t.co/dvJczewH2j - the deadline is 1 December so get writing ✍🏽 💻 @SHARPorgNews @OU_FASS @BibSocAmer @btb_network

Fellow @SHARPorg & #bookhistory people, do take a look at this excellent minigraph from my @DH_OU and @OU_FASS colleague Francesca Benatti👇🏼and yes it’s Open Access so download to your devices now! @ArtsFASSOU @OU_Literature @VerbalArtsDerry

Thanks to @CUPElementsPBC for publishing my research on digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, to @OU_FASS for making it Open Access, and to @OU_Literature @OU_Library for their support. Read it for free

There’s still time ⏱️ to send in your proposals for papers, round table panels, creative interventions or lightning ⚡️ talks! See below ⬇️

There’s still time⏱️see below ⬇️

Getting scribbling ✍🏽⌨️- send us your proposals for papers, round table panels, lightning talks or creative responses on why #literaturematters by 26 July please!

Details of our #literaturematters conference below ⬇️ please send us proposals for papers, creative interventions, lighting talks by 26 July! @SHARPorgNews @SHARPorg @IES_London @BritishAcademy_ @UnivEnglish @OU_WELS @OUScotland @OUBelfast @OUCymru @readingagency @btb_network

We've extended our application deadline for our Festival Event (unfunded pathway). Apply by 18 July to organise an event as part of this year's Being Human Festival (7-16 November) and help us to demonstrate the importance of #humanities research. https://t.co/jqeOiEV0Mi

Details of our #literaturematters conference below ⬇️ please send us proposals for papers, creative interventions, lighting talks by 26 July! @SHARPorgNews @SHARPorg @IES_London @BritishAcademy_ @UnivEnglish @OU_WELS @OUScotland @OUBelfast @OUCymru @readingagency @btb_network