postcolonial

“SRK 2.0: The Comeback”

Editors: Rudrani Gangopadhyay, Niyati Bhat, Souraj Dutta

Brenna Duperron and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette are continuing to build the 'Indigenous turn' with some exciting panels for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-16, 2026), which include:

• “The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel);
• and “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel).

Abstract submissions due September 15, 2025 to the ICMS Confex site:

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi

The CEMORY project team at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations) invites Participants to join the "Forgotten Voices. Holocaust Memories Through the Perspective of Minorities" International Conference. The "Forgotten voices. Holocaust Memories Through the Perspective of Minorities" International Conference is organised under the auspices of the “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV). "Forgotten Voices" Conference, vol.

This panel will trace the connections between production, reproduction, and world-making in twentieth and twenty-first century literary, cinematic, legal, and medical texts. Scholars of biopolitics, nationalism, and reproduction such as Tanika Sarkar, Banu Subramaniam, and Kalindi Vora have noted that reproduction is fundamentally a postcolonial problem in that it sheds light on the anxieties entrenched in imperial and postcolonial nationalisms. That said, when seen from the perspectives of capital, labor, and affect, we know that reproduction happens in quiet and banal fashions—reproduction of feelings, of habits, of desires, of work, of cultures, and of ideas.

W.B. YEATS: DUBLINER30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin  

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

Black literatures of African and African American authors set in the twentieth century share cross-cultural realities. These continental literatures have explored topics such as segregation, colonialism, post-colonial disillusionment, civil and political underrepresentation, migration, economic recession, capitalism, racism, double consciousness, and others. This panel seeks essays that explore, using a comparative lens, a new perspective of the connections between these two continental Black authors, cultures, and topics.

Submit an abstract between 200-300 words and a 100-word bio through the CFP link. View Session

Call for Papers: Forms of Suffering: Literary Tragedy in an Age of Political Violence

This panel seeks to explore the evolving nature of literary tragedy in response to the escalating political violence witnessed across the Globe. We invite submissions that examine how contemporary literature deals with these crises and, in turn, how the tragic genre itself is undergoing transformation.

We are looking for papers that delve into various aspects of this intersection, including but not limited to:

• The representation of political violence and its human cost in contemporary tragic narratives.

Convocatoria POLIFONIA, Revista de estudios hispánicos Volumen XV, Año 2025Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine (el mundo hispanohablante)

El consejo editorial de Polifonía se complace en hacer pública su nueva convocatoria para su decimoquinto volumen, “Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine,” que se publicará de forma electrónica e impresa en el 2025.

Este volumen consta de dos partes: la primera aborda la resistencia en la literatura y el cine en el mundo hispanohablante (ver abajo), mientras la segunda es de tema misceláneo - es decir, abierto. 

Call for Chapters

Edited Volume on Can I Believe?: Postcolonial Religiosity in the Post-Truth Era

Edited by Fardun Ali Middya & Md Ujan Ahmad

Recovering late-colonial Malay(si)a: 

Histories and Legacies of Resettlement 

Dates: March 17–18, 2026 

Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HX, UK 

Overview 

6th International e-Conference

on

Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change

Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

In collaboration with

School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India

&

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

Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix). 

The gothic is a genre of marginalization, foregrounding locales and figures that are ghostly, monstrous, or abandoned. It is no surprise, then, that authors across the Global South, from Akwaeke Emezi to Nick Joaquín to Mariana Enríquez, embrace the gothic when constructing narratives that resist colonialism and its myriad legacies. For this special issue of The Global South, the guest editor is inviting submissions from scholars whose research engages with gothic creators throughout this nebulous region. The gothic is likewise a broad term, and, given the innumerable repercussions of colonization, we welcome contributions from across gothic subgenres—ecological, gendered, neoliberal, or queer, to name a few.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London