LCIR is a nonprofit organisation aiming to promote interdisciplinary research, encourage communication and strengthen cooperation among international scholars.
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🎭 THE STAGE REIMAGINED
From ancient drama to AI, from live performance to virtual worlds, from memory and trauma to activism, identity and belonging - theatre keeps changing, challenging and reinventing itself.
Paper proposals by 15 January 2027: drama.lcir.co.uk
Last weekend, Narratives of Displacement took over Birkbeck - with stories of exile, migration, memory, belonging, and everything that happens when “home” turns out to be a much more complicated word than we thought.
🌿 Nature is on the agenda — and it has plenty to say! 🌍📚
Our International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies is underway at Birkbeck, University of London, bringing together researchers from around the world to explore our relationship with the environment.
"On the Move: Travel, Mobility and the Poetics of Transport"
International Conference
📅 27–28 February 2027
📍 St Anne’s College, University of Oxford & Online
travel.lcir.co.uk
A poem walks into a conference…
Two days later, it has been created, performed, analysed, interpreted, reinterpreted and discussed from approximately 47 different angles.
Sounds about right. 😉
A look back at our International Conference on Poetry Studies.
⚡️ Who has the power — and who gets to decide?
Our Gender and Power International Conference brings together scholars and researchers to explore how gender, power, identity and inequality shape our societies, cultures and everyday lives. 🌍📚
genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
✨ International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: “Models and Alternatives” at Birkbeck and online brought together brilliant speakers from the UK and around the world for 2 days of lively discussions, unexpected connections and some wonderfully strange ideas 🏛️📚
🎬 Who gets to be “us” — and who gets cast as the Other?
Join us for Identity and Otherness in Film:
From race, gender and class to migration, belonging and the supernatural — we’re asking how cinema shapes the way we see ourselves and others. 🎥
🌐 film.lcir.co.uk
The support we receive from our academic community means the world to us. You keep us going, inspire us, and encourage us to keep creating for you. ❤️🔥
Day 1 of the International Conference on Postcolonial Studies 🌍📚 — in beautiful Malta 🇲🇹
Great papers, lively discussions, plenty of questions — and, naturally, a few debates that could have lasted all day!
A fantastic start to two days of sharing ideas. Day 2, let’s go! ☀️✨
It's curious how everyone has been a child, yet childhood still manages to surprise us.
Join us in exploring children's lives, cultures, rights, identities, play, education, wellbeing and much more.
📝 Submit your proposal by 1 November 2026.
childhood-studies.lcir.co.uk
What do a philosopher, a clinician, a literary scholar, an anthropologist and a historian have in common?
They're all asking the same question: what does it mean to be human?
Join us at the International Conference on Medical Humanities
🌐 medhumconf.lcir.co.uk
Some conferences explore the familiar. This one searched for what lurks just beneath it.
On 24–25 July, scholars gathered in Mallorca and online to explore ghosts, haunted histories, horror, AI, borders, memory and the unsettling power of familiar.
uncanny.lcir.co.uk
🌍 Where does movement take us?
From walking and pilgrimage to trains, cars, aviation and migration, movement is never simply about getting from one place to another. It shapes how we experience space, time, identity, culture and connection.
🚶♀️ 🚆 🚗 ✈️
travel.lcir.co.uk
🧠 What do we remember? What do we forget? And what happens when memory hurts?
The International Conference on Memory and Trauma invites scholars from across disciplines to explore one of the most urgent and compelling areas of contemporary research.
memory.lcir.co.uk/memory-tra…
This weekend at Discourses on Motherhood ❤️
We are especially honoured to open the conference with a keynote by Andrea O’Reilly, one of the most influential voices in motherhood studies and the founder of matricentric feminism.
genderstudies.lcir.co.uk
Yesterday, Birkbeck became a map of memories.
Day 1 of The Place of Memory conference took us across ruins, museums, war zones, childhood landscapes camps and archives — a reminder that places are never just places. They carry stories, losses and unfinished conversations.
From Afro-diasporic sonic insurgencies to Māori kapa haka, from Iranian women rewriting moral codes to queer Kenyan radical erotics, Black feminist print cultures & Palestinian graffiti—this conference was less a programme & more a map of how humans keep finding ways to push back
Wish you were here.
Or there.
Or somewhere in between.
Displacement is never only about movement — it is about memory, borders, belonging and the stories we tell when “home” becomes uncertain.
Where do stories go when we are forced to move?
CFP: 15/06
narrativesofdisplacement.lci…
