Minding the Gaps
12th Brno International Conference of English, American, and Canadian Studies
Organized and hosted by:
The Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE) and the Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
5 – 7 February 2025
With a Doctoral Symposium preceding the main events on 4 February 2025.
The Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno and the Czech Association for the Study of English announce the conference Minding the Gaps: The 12th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies.
The conference is the next installment in the established series of Brno conferences, which aims and connecting scholars in the field and related disciplines from the Czech Republic and elsewhere. As scholars, we are aware of tumultuous developments in our disciplines, often accompanied by methodological and even ideological quarrels. As conference organizers, we see our event as an opportunity to reflect upon the latest developments and continue in well-established research endeavours, which entails minding the gaps within and across the various disciplines. By bringing scholars together, we believe that most of the gaps may be bridged, be it in the traditional areas of literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, translation studies and teaching methodology, or any other related discipline or interdisciplinary combination thereof.
We invite proposals for individual papers (20 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) and posters. Abstracts of papers (200-250 words) and posters (100-150 words) should be submitted online via the conference website by 31st October 2024.
Doctoral students are welcome to present their research in its advanced stage with the supervisor's endorsement. All other doctoral students are invited to apply for the Doctoral Symposium preceding the main event, where they will have an opportunity to share their research-in-progress with their peers as well as senior scholars from their field. The Doctoral Symposium will consist of blind review and feedback from an advanced academic, peer-to-peer feedback in group sessions, and a moderated round table discussion, with a plenty of socializing and networking accompanying activities. All Doctoral Symposium participants are encouraged to join the main event on the following days. Doctoral students may send abstracts (200-250 words) of their contributions (15-25 pages, to be submitted two weeks before the event) by 30th November 2024.
Registration will open on 1st April 2024.
Acceptance of papers and posters will be announced by 30th November 2024. Acceptance of Doctoral Symposium projects will be announced by 31st December 2024.
Please send any queries to 2025@phil.muni.cz.