Landscapes

-- The Call for Papers is now closed --

The Postgraduate Colloquium is an online two-day conference organised by the School of English at the University of Sheffield. The Colloquium brings together students and researchers from disciplines such as English Literature, Linguistics, Theatre, Creative Writing, History, Philosophy, Geography and Music, from various institutions in the UK. We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on a wide range of topics concerning the above theme. We welcome academic presentations as well as experimental and creative submissions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

The political landscape created (or dismantled) by Brexit

Postcolonial political and/or environmental landscapes, including issues such as multilingualism, language attitudes and globalisation

Ecocritical landscapes

Landscapes of race

Landscapes of class

Queer landscapes

Feminist landscapes

Sociolinguistic landscapes

Theolinguistic landscapes and/or the inclusion of religion in political landscapes

Historical linguistics and its impact upon current landscapes

Pastoral landscapes

Romantic landscapes

Modernist landscapes

Landscapes of ecological and/or political diversity

Landscapes of resurrection

Landscapes in film

Please send 300-500 word abstracts to landscapespgc@gmail.com by 16th March 2020. Please also include a brief 50-word biography.