postcolonial

Concept Note

Concept Note

Deep Time in Irish Literature, Culture, Media, and the Arts

In considering the ecocritical urgency of Irish texts, past and present—including characters such as the geographer-protagonist of Caoilinn Hughes’s 2024 novel The Alternatives—we invite papers that consider deep time and its uses in Irish literature, culture, media, and the arts. Topics across genres and time periods may include the human and nonhuman, periodization and cosmic/ancestral time, Irish legend and folklore in deep time, traditions of prehistory, seeds, agriculture, stones, gems, the bog and bog bodies, fossils, climate change, and the anthropocene.

Call for Book Chapters

(PETER LANG)

Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience

Performing the Earth: Tribal Green Stage and Environmental Resilience aims to explore the intersection of indigenous cultural expression, performance art, and environmental sustainability. Drawing on the profound ecological wisdom of indigenous peoples, this book focuses to present a dynamic collection of original articles, and creative works that examine how the performing arts can serve as powerful tools for environmental advocacy and resilience.

The history of the Black Atlantic is rife with narratives of leaving and returns that can prove destabilizing factors, regarding identity and culture. Yet, it is in these stories, that a more complete image of the complexities of the lives of the people who traverse(d) the Black Atlantic becomes clearer. The literature of the men and women whose texts engage the 500-year history of the Black Atlantic narrative work to form a more nuanced image of Black life in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. In doing so, many of these works demonstrate the influence of African culture on members of the Diaspora through the inclusion of African spirituality in the texts.

The concept of subalternity, rooted in Antonio Gramsci’s theoretical framework and later expanded in postcolonial studies by thinkers like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, has been central to understanding the dynamics of power, representation, and marginalization. Subalternity refers to those groups and individuals excluded from hegemonic structures of power, whose voices are systematically silenced by dominant discourses. In contemporary literature, the subaltern is no more a passive subject of marginalization but an active agent of resistance, contestation, and self-articulation. Contemporary literature has become a critical space for the articulation of subaltern experiences, foregrounding the voices of those who have historically been denied agency.

Theatre Topics Special Issue Call for Papers: Whose Story? Resisting and Reimagining Master Narratives 

Theatre tells stories; and theatre historically have been telling certain stories more than others. Examining several larger factors such as classicization, canonization, colonialism, racism and sexism, this special issue of Theatre Topics invites inquiries into ways in which theatre classics and canons may have formed historically, and the ways in which we are grappling with epistemic violence of erasure in our contemporary relationship with master narratives across the world. 

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that explore the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. John Carlos Rowe, the USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature, the University of Southern California

Dr. Lan Duong, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, the University of Southern California

Dr. Long Bui, Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California, Irvine

Dr. Pheng Cheah, Professor of Rhetoric, the University of California, Berkeley

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Monarch of All I Survey:” Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies

International Conference 

Date: Nov. 20-21, 2025
Venue: ENS de Lyon, France

Keynote speakers:

-       Julia Kühn (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

-       Nicholas Spengler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

“I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute,

From the center all round to the sea,

Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form

Appel à contributions

Nouvelles Études Francophones (automne-hiver 2025)

 Dossier : Dialogues et regards croisés dans l'espace atlantique (Beatriz Mangada & Vassiliki Lalagianni)

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) is a collaborative and peer-reviewed digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens. 

Routledge Book Series – Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World

Series Editors: Lewis Gordon, Rozena Maart, Epifania Amoo-Adare and Sayan Dey