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YOUTH AND CULTURE IN NORTHEAST INDIA: INTERSECTIONS AND  PERSPECTIVES  

Introduction  

Youth represent a powerful social force shaping contemporary societies through their  engagement with identity, creativity, social transformation, and cultural negotiation. In India’s  Northeast—a region distinguished by rich ethnic diversity, complex histories, and evolving  socio-political realities—youth culture offers a critical lens to understand how societies adapt  to rapid change while preserving cultural continuity. Young people in the region occupy a  dynamic space where tradition, globalization, technological transformation, and regional  aspirations intersect.  

How do postcolonial literatures imagine hospitality in a world shaped by colonial histories, forced migration, displacement, and contested belonging? This panel invites papers that examine the ethics and politics of hospitality through postcolonial, diasporic, and transnational literary and cultural texts. Moving beyond hospitality as a simple act of welcome, the panel seeks to explore its tensions, contradictions, and possibilities: Who is welcomed, excluded, or rendered perpetually a stranger? How do migration, exile, memory, language, and cultural difference reshape notions of home, community, and kinship?

7th International Conference (Online Mode)

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Sustainability in Practice: Re-(Thinking) Literature, Society, and Culture

Date: 15th and 16th October, 2026 (Thursday & Friday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

In Collaboration with

Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

Formats: short fiction and creative non-fiction (2,500-3,000 words) and graphic fiction (including comics, textile art, collage art, and or visual narratives of 5-10 pages).

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 11:59 p.m. (BST).

About This Call

Tales We Were Told is a forthcoming open access edited collection of creative works on oral storytelling, remembrance, and inherited narratives. 

Conventional cinematic views of New York City are often characterized by aerials, panoramas, and long shots of the archetypal Manhattan skyline, montage of crowded sidewalks, and quick shots of the yellow cabs in congested traffic. Scholars have regularly linked such city views to their historical urban contexts: studies of city symphonies emphasize the concomitance of capitalist modernity, scholars of film noir associate the genre with Cold War anxieties magnified by urban disorientation, while studies of Blaxploitation link the films to the immediate precedents of urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s.

Labour is deeply intertwined with caste, gender and class in the socioeconomic fabric of India. However, caste and gender are the two factors that remain ignored in this discourse. In the Hindu social order, the caste system assigns vocations through arbitrary hierarchy, producing pernicious structures of marginalisation. Labour performed by Dalits is often stereotyped through casteist assumptions that naturalise certain kinds of work as “belonging” to these peripheral communities. These stereotypes that are perpetuated historically, culturally and socio-politically, are furthered through mechanisms of caste that operate in the material and affective realms. 

CFP for NeMLA 2027 Conference

Virtual Only Panel

Oral Community Knowledge as Antidote for Empire in Anglophone Literature

RISING ASIA JOURNAL is a peer reviewed journal published three times a year in January, May, and September. 

Reviewers are welcome to submit book reviews on any aspect of Asia, covering India's Northeast, Southeast Asia, and East Asia (China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan). 

For details on our book reviews and manuscript preparation guidelines, please go to SUBMIT ARTICLES in our website www.rajraf.org 

Send your reviews to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu and to the Editor Dr. Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

Call for Papers

 Vol. XII, Issue 1 (January 2027) 

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for the January 2027 issue on the theme of Popular Culture and the Rise of the Right.

Call for Papers

Encountering the Human(ities): Anxiety, Storytelling, Futurity

Department of English and Modern Languages

North South University

Dhaka, Bangladesh

30-31 October, 2026 (Friday-Saturday)

Hybrid Event

Call for Papers: Alizés 47 (2027)

Special issue edited by Talal Hochard (University of Reunion Island) and Zuzana Fonioková (Masaryk University)

Discursive Resistance in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Public Discourse

Abstract submission deadline (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words): September 1, 2026

Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026

Full draft papers submission: February 15, 2027

Final papers submission: June 30, 2027

Women and/of the Empire(s): On the 150th Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation as Empress of India (1876-2026)

29-30 October 2026

An international conference hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Faculdade de Letras), University of Porto, Portugal

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Ana Cristina Mendes (Professor of English Studies, University of Lisbon, President of the Association for Cultural Studies)
Martin Hewitt (President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Visiting Professor of English, University of Leeds, Editor of the Curran Index)

Panel Proposal for the NeMLA Convention, Newport, RI, March 6–9, 2027

Planetary crises—climate change, toxic pollution, biodiversity loss, and energy transition—are profoundly uneven in their distribution. Their material consequences are shaped by infrastructures of class, race, colonial histories, state power, and global capitalism. Increasingly, literary, artistic, and cultural texts across the world foreground these asymmetries, framing ecological crisis not only as environmental catastrophe but as a question of justice: Who breathes polluted air? Who profits from green transformation? Who consumes melting ice? Who bears the social and environmental costs of planetary change?

Call for Proposals for papers, possibly for the ACLA Seminar in Houston March 2027 and for a possible collection of published essays.

Women’s Writings against Oppression in the Middle East and South Asia