world literatures and indigenous studies

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.

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

The conference is co-organized by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Samarkand State University "Sharof Rashidov" and Bukhara State University.
The main goal of the international forum is to give a new impetus to the development of science and education through a new reading of the scientific heritage of ancient philosophical treatises from the perspective of modern discussions and dialogue between the East and the West.
Main thematic areas:
1. Historical context and cultural influences - Eastern and Western perceptions
2. Contemporary problems and future prospects. East-West interdisciplinary approaches.
3. Classification of sciences - synergy of scientific knowledge

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

September 25 – 28, 2025
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

Symposium Date: September 25, 2025

Symposium Location: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Deadline for Abstracts: August 1, 2025

Notification of Decisions by: August 15, 2025

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia)

May 30th, 2026 (Saturday).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between July 7th, 2025, and October 15th, 2025.

Please include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.

Approved abstracts will be informed by December 2025.

“To be or not to be”—Hamlet’s timeless question of existence—resonates with a gendered undertone that continues to echo through literature and culture. This panel asks a related question: what does it mean to be (or not to be) a man, and how do literary texts help illuminate that question across genres, periods, and geographies?

Call for Book Proposals

Peter Lang Book Series

Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"

Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 July 2025

CFP:

          It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.​         

Call for Book Chapters

African Literature and the Resilience of Love: Indigenous Intimacies as Resistance in Historical and Global Contexts

Submission Email: africanliteratureandlovebook@gmail.com

Editor: Azzeddine Tajjiou

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

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The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

• Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
• Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
• Publication Date: December, 2026
• Languages accepted: English
• Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

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