Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

  • Literary Landscapes: Forms of Knowledge in the Humanities
  • 28-30 June 2023
  • Sorbonne Université, Paris, France + Online

Research Network Chair

Dr. Asun López-Varela

Dr. Asun López-Varela

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Local Conference Host

Dr. Bernard Franco

Dr. Bernard Franco

Faculté des lettres, Sorbonne Université, France

2023 Plenary Speakers

The Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.

Helene Dewaele Valderrábano

Helene Dewaele Valderrábano

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

"Paisaje memorial: El valle de Cuelgamuros"

Asun López-Varela

Asun López-Varela

Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

"Paisajes posthumanos: narrando lo no humano desde las humanidades"

Brigitte Le Juez

Brigitte Le Juez

Dublin City University, Ireland

"More-than-Human Literary Landscapes: an Ecocritical Perspective"

Beatrice Nickel

Beatrice Nickel

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

"Anthropological Landscapes in the Literature of the Age of Enlightenment"

Bernard Franco

Bernard Franco

Faculté des lettres, Sorbonne Université, France

"The Landscape as Image of Fiction: about a Literary Knowledge"

Emerging Scholar Awardees

For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2023 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:

Stephen Cristopher

Stephen Cristopher

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

(In-Person)

Avalon Jade Theisen

Avalon Jade Theisen

Arizona State University, USA

(In-Person)

Małgorzata Fabrycy

Małgorzata Fabrycy

Sorbonne University in Paris, France

(In-Person)

Juan Manuel Garcia Fernandez

Juan Manuel Garcia Fernandez

University of Colorado Boulder, USA

(In-Person)

Carlos Gutiérrez Cajaraville

Carlos Gutiérrez Cajaraville

University of Valladolid, Spain

Neriman Kuyucu

Neriman Kuyucu

Koc University, Turkey

(In-Person)

Ioannis Sidiropoulos

Ioannis Sidiropoulos

University of Melbourne, Australia

(In-Person)

​Karen Jallatyan

​Karen Jallatyan

Department of Armenian Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary

(In-Person)

Crystal Payne

Crystal Payne

Washington University in St Louis, USA

(In-Person)

Fafa Sene

Fafa Sene

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Japan

(In-Person)

Savannah Willard

Savannah Willard

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Leonardo Cascão

Leonardo Cascão

University of Coimbra, Portugal

(Online Only)

Supriya Baijal

Supriya Baijal

Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India

(Online Only)

​Davide Pafumi

​Davide Pafumi

University of Lethbridge, Canada

(Online Only)

​Taylor Breckles

​Taylor Breckles

Simon Fraser University, Canada

(Online Only)

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Yongzhen Xiong

Yongzhen Xiong

Chongqing Three Gorges University, China

(Online Only)

David Crellin, MFA.,

David Crellin, MFA.,

University of California Santa Cruz, USA

(Online Only)

Iman Afify

Iman Afify

American University in Cairo, Egypt

(Online Only)

Shuo Zhao

Shuo Zhao

Communication University of China, China

(Online Only)

Dora Kourkoulou

Dora Kourkoulou

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

(Online Only)

Kévin Drif

Kévin Drif

University of California Berkeley, USA

(Online Only)

Alvin Joseph

Alvin Joseph

Mahatma Gandhi University, India

(Online Only)

Conference Partners