Malcolm Noble

On 12th September 2023 I am arranging an online workshop on co-operative education with my colleagues Cilla Ross and Esther Gicheru, which will lead to a special number of Journal of Co-operative Studies . We intend to open the Zoom room at 2.30pm UK time for a formal start at 3pm, finishing at 9pm; this has been arranged to suit the different time zones as best as possible, but it may shift slightly as we finalize the programme. If you would like to join please complete the form at  http://bit.ly/CoopEdRegister . You will get the zoom link automatically in response and more information including papers to read closer to the time.  The original call is here  https://www.ukscs.coop/pages/co-operative-education  and you can learn more about the JCS there too.

With my colleagues Professor Esther Gicheru, Deputy Vice Chancellor Finance Planning & Administration, The Co-operative University of Kenya and Dr Cilla Ross, Honorary Professor Co-operative Education, University of Nottingham; Co-operative College UK; Journal of Co-operative Studies Advisory Board, I am arranging a workshop in September 2023 leading to a special number of the Journal of Co-operative Studies which considers co-operative education in its broadest sense – learning about co-operation, for co-operation, by co-operation, and through co-operation. The call is pasted below and can be viewed  here . Key dates 12 June 2023 Deadline for short abstracts (300 words) and other proposals 12 September 2023 Online workshop 31 Ocotber 2023 Deadline for submission to special issue Co-operative Education — Call for papers Late-stage capitalism appears to have reached a point of permanent crisis: environmental catastrophe, nuclear war, and technological dystopias loom, against a b...

QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY: TOOLS, METHODS, PRACTICES, APPROACHES  With my colleague Sarah Pyke, I am arranging a workshop in London in February 2023, and am pleased to share the CfP below. Call for papers for a symposium at Senate House, University of London, 4 February 2023* Participants are invited to an optional practice-based workshop on 5 February 2023, venue TBC Sexuality and textuality are tightly bound. From our earliest experiences of media –including print – LGBTQI+ individuals are employing queer interpretative methods and navigating the ways queer identities might be ‘read’ by others. And yet, while literature’s constitutive effect on queer subjectivities is relatively well-worked ground, how exactly print objects inform, acknowledge, embody and produce queer identities and communities is understudied in bibliographic terms. Queer/ing book history is a project that has been advanced both inside and outside the academy (The Queer Book course at London Rare Books School, devised...