This Friday and Saturday, the University of Sussex hosted the Thinking Feeling conference on affect, feeling and emotion, attempting to theorise the myriad ways in which this is mapped out.

The second day of the 21st-Century British Fiction Conference at Birkbeck saw an opening keynote from Bob Eaglestone in which he provocatively challenged the unformed nature of the field.

[View the story "Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck" on Storify] Day 1 of Twenty-First-Century Literature Conference at Birkbeck was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on May 12, 2012.

A quick note to say: come join us for the launch of Excursions volume 3 from 4pm-7pm on the 16th May in the Fulton Social Space at the University of Sussex! Excursions Journal Vol 3: Launch Party was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on May 05, 2012.

I thought it was time for a brief "state of the issue" post for the, no doubt voluminous, hordes awaiting the launch of Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon. One review and six articles are now typeset and going into proofreading. A further review and note are in initial copyediting. Three commissioned reviews are expected in the very near future and these will go into copyediting and typesetting as soon as possible.

Following the success of last year's Pynchon in Public Day, this May 8th will play host to further celebrations of perhaps the world's greatest living author: Thomas Pynchon. I know that there are plans afoot in Munich and New York, but wanted to announce that a Brighton contingent will be meeting at 10am on Tuesday 8th of May at the Nia Cafe.

Today, the SoAS was host to the Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar, marking the release of a special issue of Textual Practice on Martin Amis' Money . The panel consisted of Nicky Marsh, Chris Hartley, Matthew Crowley, Bianca Leggett and Joe Brooker. There was also a conversation with the novelist Alex Preston, but I unfortunately had to leave before this point. This is a brief post to document the seminar.

2nd Jul 2012 Checkland, Falmer Campus, University of Brighton, UK A one-day symposium hosted by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton Cost: FREE (Space Strictly Limited) Deadline for proposals: 15th May 2012 Visit the webpage: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/research-conferences/teaching-post-millennial-literature Keynotes: Dr David James (University of Nottingham) and Prof Peter Boxall

As part of a transparent development process, I wanted to announce that I'm starting, thanks to some funding and support from a colleague at Sussex, a Digital Humanities project that focuses upon object annotation and cross-medium comparison. The project is called epiLog and will be available during development on my github. The Concept I constantly make annotations on books, films, photographs and many other objects.

Here's the video of my talk to the UKSG Conference in Glasgow in June 2012. In the contemporary publish-or-perish culture, very few academics query the mechanisms through which their work is distributed. At the same time, academic libraries and publishers are playing a dangerous power game in which each threatens the existence of the other in their own bid to stay afloat.

In which I look nervous and shifty. Please note: this post's featured image is licensed and not shared under a CC license. The future of academic publishing Q&A was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on April 09, 2012.