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Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) fosters interdisciplinary dialogue at the crossroads of the humanities and sciences. We support creative and scholarly work through conferences, publications, awards, and community collaboration.

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New Book Covers for: Cutting Up Books by Ania Malinowska; and The New College Circle by Meredith Tromble and Jennifer Rissler.
New Book Covers for: From Earth to the Moon, edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya; and Shifting Paradigms of the Anthropocene by Stephanie S. Turner.
New Book Covers for: First Encounters with AI, edited by Nina Beguš; and Artificial Humanities by Nina Beguš.

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Academic Opportunities

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) of Critical Game Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Department of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is looking for an applicant who engages with Critical Game Studies methods and scholarship in their teaching and research. Candidates should utilize interdisciplinary humanities approaches for analyzing, participating, and creating in games studies.

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Books to Review for Configurations

If you would like to review one of the books below, please contact Jay Labinger. Current as of August 5, 2026

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August 25–29, 2026 São Paulo, Brazil

RATIO ETHICA: Towards Epistemic Justice

RATIO ETHICA: Toward Epistemic Justice is an international conference dedicated to reflecting on the ethical, epistemic, social, environmental, and cultural challenges of the contemporary world. Anchored in the notion of Epistemic Justice, the event brings together scholars, researchers, artists, activists, and members of civil society to promote dialogue among diverse forms of knowledge, disciplines, languages, and lived experiences.

Organized by the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), the conference seeks to question hegemonic epistemologies and to value plural, insurgent, Indigenous, Afro-diasporic, migrant, refugee, feminist, queer, and Global South knowledges, fostering a university and a society committed to social transformation, inclusion, and dignity.

 

August 21–24, 2025 Corvallis, Oregon

2025 Annual Meeting of SLSA: Risk

Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

  • Theme: “Risk”
  • Dates: August 21-24, 2025
  • Conference website: https://slsa2025.org/ (archived on Internet Archive)
  • Hosted by Oregon State University