Frankétienne, Father of Haitian Letters, Is Dead at 88 A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.

A great loss for the Haitian people, and for Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world as a whole
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...

CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"

✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at

Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer

Lessons for the End of the World On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

"Despair, too, because of how accessible escape is becoming in a world that requires more rigorous close looking, every day." A timely essay on Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler and the burning world, written by Hanif Abdurraqib.
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

CFP. An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asia”: Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025, Jeju National University, Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
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happy to share the CfP of the Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies". The conference takes places from Oct. 3-5 at the University of Vienna:
aaas.at/annual-confe...