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The International Flann O’Brien Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long (University of Waikato) as the society’s new President. Dr Long is the author of the award-winning Assembling Flann O'Brien, the editor of the award-winning Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien, and a gener…

A message from our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards Like many academic organisations, the OLH team has become increasingly alarmed at Elon Musk’s behaviour following his acquisition of Twitter almost two years ago. Since Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s staff in early 2023, we have noticed a shar…

Update: the journal is no longer considering new submissions for this collection at this time.   To allow for more submissions and considering everybody's hectic summer schedule the special issue editors extended the deadline to 31st of October.  We hoped this way potential authors felt encouraged …

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed our first UK Platinum super-supporter to our library board, the University of Leeds. Founded in 1904, The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The university is among the Russell Group o…

The STAR site is now live on Janeway.

We are thrilled to announce that Glossa, one of our published journals, has reached an incredible milestone: the publication of its 1000th article! This achievement reflects the hard work, dedication, and commitment of the entire Glossa community — editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. Glossa j…

Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley  7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote speakers Dr. Maebh Long (University of Waikato)Editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien and author of Assembling Flann O’Brien Professor Dana Sawyer (Maine College of Art & Desi…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, Birmingham City University. With its history dating back to the 1880s, Birmingham City University is situated within the heart of England’s second city. It gained university status in 1992, the same year work commenced on a new bu…

Prior to its first issue, which will appear in early 2025, Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) is now open for submissions.  

The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.   Despite a fl…

The first issue with the new publisher, Open Library of Humanities, is out! [Click here to browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $8.61 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following …

The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway. Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers…