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Merve Tabur
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Turkish/Arabic/Anglophone SF ☆ climate change ☆ urban futures ☆ petro-cultures ☆ #envhum
Lecturer in Comparative Literature @ Utrecht University
Researcher @ CoFutures
Editor-in-chief @ Fafnir

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · Nov 20
I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list.

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In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens.

Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...
August 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨

☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz.

Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi

Happy reading!
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Many thanks to the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) for supporting our symposium with a grant and for including it in their 2025-2026 Academic Programme!
swanalit.bsky.social Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network @swanalit.bsky.social · Jul 1
We’re happy to share that our upcoming symposium, “Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa”, has received funding from OSL! 🎉✨ Join us in Utrecht on 10 April 2026 to rethink care, vulnerability, and solidarity beyond crisis.

www.oslit.nl/osl-academic...
OSL Academic Programme 2025-2026 - Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
The first overview of the OSL academic program for 2025-2026 is now available! For most of the activities taking place in Semester 1, registration will open on September 4th, 2025 (more details will b...
www.oslit.nl
July 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Join the orca uprising and come to Utrecht!!
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May 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list.

go.bsky.app/To2zEEL
November 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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@mugeozoglu.bsky.social and I've been envisioning this network for a long time & we're thrilled to announce its launch!

We are now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026).

Visit our website to check the CfP.
swanalit.bsky.social Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network @swanalit.bsky.social · May 14
We're happy to announce the launch of the Southwest Asian & North African Literatures Network @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social!

Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
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The Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network (SWANA Lit Network) is a newly launched platform that aims to bring together researchers and creatives with a shared interest in the literatur...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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@mugeozoglu.bsky.social and I've been envisioning this network for a long time & we're thrilled to announce its launch!

We are now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026).

Visit our website to check the CfP.
swanalit.bsky.social Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network @swanalit.bsky.social · May 14
We're happy to announce the launch of the Southwest Asian & North African Literatures Network @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social!

Visit our website to learn about the network & the CfP for our first symposium on Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (2026)!
swanalit.sites.uu.nl/about/
About
The Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network (SWANA Lit Network) is a newly launched platform that aims to bring together researchers and creatives with a shared interest in the literatur...
swanalit.sites.uu.nl
May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸

My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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For a system rooted in freedom, justice & equality—free from exploitation and nepotism. Where we are rewarded fairly for our labor, without facing precarity or threats to our well-being. For solidarity and fulfilment instead of competition and profit. Happy Labor and Solidarity Day!
May 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸

My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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New publication!

press.syr.edu/supressbooks...

There will be a book launch at the Orient-Institut in Istanbul on May 8:

oiist.org/en/event/the...
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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On May 18th, join Maya Salameh for her 3rd workshop, "On the Memory of Water" ❤️

We'll explore the profound connections between water, memory, and resistance from the perspectives of poets Ariana Benson, Banah el Ghadbanah, Camonghne Felix, and Nizar Qabbani.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/on-...
white letters on blue background of the sea Workshops for Gaza On the Memory of Water May 18 10-12pm PST/1-3pm EST Maya Salameh
April 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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One for sf and utopian peoples too. ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2025/04/03/c...
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
A hybrid conference convened by the University of Warwick and Manchester in partnership with the European Network for Short Fiction Research. We are excited to announce this call for papers on Ecol…
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April 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
Making a Claim on Language: A Conversation with Adania Shibli - The Paris Review
“In Palestine, the obscurities one encounters are often the only things that can be experienced. How is one to transform that from a destructive force into an intimate way of being in the world, unkno...
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March 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Bilimkurgu Kulübünden çok güzel bir çalışma. Okuru bol olsun!
Bilimkurgu Kulübü, Yörüngede Dans’ı Sunar - Bilimkurgu Kulübü
Kadın yazarlardan bilimkurguya güçlü bir dokunuş! Bilimkurgu Kulübü‘nün dördüncü öykü kitabı Yö
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March 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Ayşegül Yalvaç ile konuk olduğumuz ve iklim kurgu, ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişki gibi konular üzerine konuştuğumuz Omelas programının kaydına şuradan erişebilirsiniz:
apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/248807

Spotify kullananlar için:
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March 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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📣 CfP: Fafnir invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025!

Research into any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome.

Deadline: 30 June 2025

Submissions should be made through the online portal:
fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...

#sciencefiction #SFF
March 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Sevgili Jülide Kayaş ve İsmail Yamanol'un hazırlayıp sunduğu Omelas bilimkurgu podcast'ine Ayşegül Yalvaç ile birlikte konuk olduk. Ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişkiyi konuştuk. Bugün yayında!🌳
February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here:

fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/1...

Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!
Vol. 11 No. 1–2/2024 (2024)
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January 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Congratulations to Katharine Halls and @ahmednaji.bsky.social !!
January 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣

If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.
Available Books for Review - Fafnir
AVAILABLE BOOKS FOR REVIEW FAFNIR: NORDIC JOURNAL OF SF&F RESEARCH *NOTE: Click here for our reviewer guidelines as well as our style sheet. If you’d like to review a book, just e-mail me (Jari Käkel...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The question of imagination is all the more relevant in the face of the organized attack and funding-cuts our humanities departments are facing. We're being told imagination matters as long as it yields profit. But imagining the future is a right and a responsibility. Imagination must be defended!
ruha9.bsky.social Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Dec 18
“I finished this book sobered by its hard truths yet emboldened to critically and collaboratively question the role of education in society—with a sense of curiosity & play.” Thank you Greater Good for featuring IMAGINATION in your Fav Books for Educators!📚
Full list here: bit.ly/favebooksforedu2024
December 19, 2024 at 9:07 AM
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Hi everyone! Here is a little introduction to our journal.

Fafnir is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published online twice a year. We publish texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
December 17, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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You can send us your article any time, but if you'd like it to be considered for our next issue (1/2025), the deadline is December 31!
#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 1/2025. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research. The submissions must be original works written in English, Finnish, or a Scandinavian language. Manuscripts for research articles should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length. The journal uses the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual (MLA 8). The manuscripts for research articles will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review. Please note that as Fafnir is designed to be of interest to readers with varying backgrounds, essays and other texts should be as accessibly written as possible. Also, if English is not your first language, please have your article proofread by an English-language editor. Please ensure your submission conforms to our journal’s submission guidelines, which are available at: http://journal.finfar.org/for-authors/submission-guidelines/ In addition to research articles, Fafnir welcomes text proposals for essays, interviews, overviews, conference reports, as well as book and thesis reviews on any subject suitable for the journal. Please send your electronic submission (saved as DOC/DOCX or RTF) to the following address: submissions@finfar.org. More information about the journal is available at our webpage: journal.finfar.org. Offers to review recent academic books can be sent to reviews@finfar.org. Submission deadline: 31 December 2024.
December 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM