postcolonial

Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. 

We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

Since its tangential emergence in Said’s Orientalism in 1978, the term Occidentalism accrued multiple significations. Most notably, the term is argued to stage a counter- or reverse-discourse of Orientalism, operating on analogous dichotomic and oppositional paradigms. Most notable, in this context, is Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit’s Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies, which labels Occidentalism as “dehumanizing picture of the West painted by its enemies” (5). This panel queries if we can conceive East-West relations differently, apart from the Orientalist logic that inheres in studies of Occidentalism.

Food, in any society, is defined as much by what is consumed as by what is excluded. The concept of edibility is shaped not only by nourishment or taste but also by cultural, religious, political, and social boundaries. This edited volume investigates non-food—items or substances that are technically ingestible but culturally rejected, stigmatized, or taboo—in postcolonial South Asian literature. From famine-induced substitutes to ritually impure matter, we seek to explore how literary representations of non-food reflect evolving dynamics of power, identity, and cultural values in a region deeply shaped by colonialism and its afterlives.

Concept Note

"Mapping Indian Literatures in Translation: Contemporary and Beyond"

Date: 19-20 September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025

Overview - 

November 6-7, 2025

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, as part of the FORTHEM Alliance, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for the upcoming Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference, dedicated to exploring cultural heritage within, across, and beyond the European Union’s borders. This year’s theme investigates the dynamics of intercultural, interethnic, and social interactions—especially in regions where boundaries (geographical, political, linguistic, or symbolic) are fluid and contested.

We are inviting abstracts of papers on “Culinary Crossovers: Authenticity and Ambiguity in Reimagining Food Heritage in South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for the Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Q1). In this special issue, we aim to probe into culinary histories and practices as appended to cultural/collective memory, where the idealised and marketable concept of “authenticity” emerges as a “palimpsest” conditioned by competing ideologies of nostalgia and privilege afforded by the ability to relocate.

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

Call for Chapters

Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

an edited collection with The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Book Series 

from The WAC Clearinghouse

Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025

Contact:  decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com

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A JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITIES

IN ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Issue 3 – 2025

Call for Papers

Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.

Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to: