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Looking ahead to “the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars” at IALJS 18 in Sydney, Australia

Willa McDonald, Matthew Ricketson and I could not be more thrilled to be together organizing IALJS-18 in 2024. It is more than 14 long years that we have battled to get on the IALJS annual conference roster. We understand that for many, we live and work on the other side of the world, and with…

Sue Joseph

Details, emotions, and the multidimensional world of Polish literary journalism

Before deep diving into the universe of Polish literary journalism, stop for a moment and ask yourself a question: What first comes to mind when you think about Polish literary journalism? How does it look? How does it sound? Or maybe, how does it feel? Today I would like to invite you to the magical and…

Zofia Przybysz

Marvelous Views and Heroic History: Welcome to Gdańsk

By Anna Merchel and Aleksandra Wierzbowska Welcome to the city of Gdańsk – the fourth largest metropolitan area in Poland with 262 km2 located on the Baltic coast in the northern part of the country. Gdańsk is a city with a history dating back more than a thousand years and breathtaking places worth every minute of…

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk is the Host of IALJS-17

The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk will host this year’s IALJS-17 in May. It is one of the 6 institutes that make up the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication stands out from the rest with its hands-on approach to research and…

Kaliksta Bucholc

IALJS at AEJMC Detroit Held in Person

Panelists convened to discuss nonfiction ethics and literary aesthetics After two consecutive years online, IALJS sessions at the annual AEJMC meeting took place in person. Detroit, Michigan was the site of this year’s conference, which featured two full sessions on August 3 dedicated to the theme of “Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary…

David O. Dowling

Hybrid, Funny, Dramatic and Back Together after Three Years

IALJS-16 was a conference like no other I feel I stand firmly on the safe side of truth when I state that the sixteenth conference of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) was like none of the previous ones. First, it was devilishly difficult to organize because the COVID, travel, economic and political…

Roberto Herrscher

2022 IALJS Annual Business Meeting Minutes

Minutes from meeting held at IALJS-16 in Santiago, Chile on 13 May 2022 President Rob Alexander called the 2022 annual business meeting of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies to order at 5:05 p.m. It was moved and seconded to approve the minutes from the 2021 IALJS annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, held remotely…

Lisa A. Phillips

Introducing Our 2022 Conference Host: Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Chile has a rich history of high education. Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica are among the most prestigious institutions in the continent. But there is a wide and high-quality offer, both in regional state universities and private ones, many of which are in the hands of Catholic denominations. Such is the case of our…

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Chile — A Country of Astonishing Diversity

It usually takes two maps to hold Chile inside a book page. It is very long: 2,700 miles or 4,300 kilometers from the southernmost tip of South American Patagonia to the tropical desert of Atacama (it’s the distance from New York to Los Angeles). To the east, it is washed by a rough and…

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Planning Your Travel to Chile

Government of Chile’s Step by Step Plan for COVID-19 Chile has ranked consistently as one of the top ten places to be during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to coronavirus control strategies linked to its highly-praised vaccination program. Over 92,4% of the Chilean population is vaccinated, which has allowed the country to relax its travel rules….

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IALJS to Host Hybrid Conference in Chile

The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-16) to be hosted by the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, May 12 to 14, 2022, will be a hybrid event. At this time, continuing uncertainty about COVID-19 as well as the variety of university-related travel and funding restrictions to which many of our members are…

Rob Alexander

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