METU BRITISH NOVELISTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

"BUCHI EMECHETA AND HER WORK"

5-6 December 2024

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye

The Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University is pleased to announce the call for its 27th British Novelists Conference, the theme of which is "Buchi Emecheta and Her Work." The conference will be held on 5-6 December 2024 at METU Culture and Convention Center, in Ankara, Türkiye.

The keynote speaker is Professor Alena Rettová from the University of Bayreuth. Prof. Rettová's research interest is African and Afrophone Philosophies. She is the Principal Investigator in the ERC-funded project, entitled "Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy" (2020-2025). Her forthcoming monograph is entitled The Nonhuman in African Philosophy.

Queries can be directed to Prof. Dr. Nurten Birlik at nbirlik@metu.edu.tr

The conference program can be found here.

More information regarding the conference can be found here.