CFPs
The Doris Lessing Society, an allied organization of the MLA, invites proposals for the two 2026 MLA sessions; for details of the Calls, see below:
Calls for Papers for the 2026 MLA Convention : https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Session23951.html
Doris Lessing and Technology: Adoption and Adaptations
This panel examines Doris Lessing’s technological imaginaries in dialogue with wider literary responses to scientific modernity, bioengineering, mediated consciousness, and digital transformation, extending discussion to contemporary pedagogical practices and AI-driven tools. 250-word abstract+CV to sarikan@firat.edu.tr
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Seda Arikan, Firat Universitesi (bulutsedaarikan@gmail.com )
Writing in the Interregnum: Comparative Approaches to Doris Lessing’s Emancipatory Narratives
Seeking papers examining Lessing alongside Gordimer, Carter, Djebar, Morrison, Roy, amidst war and epistemic crisis. How do their narratives function as emancipatory practices negotiating political disillusionment, psychological rupture, and visionary reimaginings? 250-word abstract+CV to sarikan@firat.edu.tr
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Seda Arikan, Firat Universitesi (bulutsedaarikan@gmail.com )
Please also see the home page for past calls for papers.
Doris Lessing Society 
I looking for a story written by doris lessing
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Synopsis: a person lands on a planet/place where the people are starving. He stays while everybody dies of starvation
He then helps a few of the people who become spirit/ w/o bodies.
September 6, 2020 at 4:23 pm
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8?
January 9, 2022 at 6:06 am
Dear Pamela,
Perhaps you are thinking of the short novel, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8? It is the fourth in Doris Lessing’s Canopus in Argos series of five novels.
Best wishes,
Josna
January 9, 2022 at 9:50 am