O Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-Portugueses da Universidade Nova de Lisboa anuncia o (Brave) New Worlds Graduate Symposium. Trata-se de um colóquio internacional a ter lugar no dia 4 de novembro de 2022, na Universidade Nova de Lisboa. As pessoas interessadas têm até ao dia 30 de setembro para enviar as suas propostas.

As we celebrate the 90^th anniversary of the publication of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it becomes inevitable to reflect on its impact in the context of American imaginaries. Thinking about what is going on in the world, including wars, pandemics, and climate change, the (Brave) New Worlds Symposium aims to bring together an intersection of plural perspectives and representations of the worlds and spaces we are creating across multiple areas of literary and cultural studies.

We invite proposals responding to, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Mapping identities (age/race/gender)
• New worlds in speculative fiction
• (Auto)mobility spaces
• Migration and new worlds
• Mapping space through visual and digital culture
• Embodiment and ethics of reproduction
• Representations of space in climate fiction
• Representations of space and climate change
• Redefining space in the post-pandemic period
• Finding new spaces/worlds in the context of war
• Spaces of industrialization and technology
• Technological spaces and landscapes
• The worlds of virtual reality
• Subaltern identities and politics of difference
• Representations of wastelands

The organizers will welcome proposals for 15-20-minute papers in English or Portuguese. We also encourage early career PhD/Masters researchers to participate.

Abstracts should contain up to 300 words. Biographical notes should contain up to 100 words.

Keynote Speaker:

José Duarte (CEAUL - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)