world literatures and indigenous studies

We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals are due April 17, 2025. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

The African Literature Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s convention which will be held in person in Milwaukee, WI.

Literature and film are filled with characters whose choices shape worlds, inspire audiences, and sometimes make no sense at all. This session takes a playful yet insightful approach to the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion by examining how cultural memory preserves, distorts, or over-glorifies certain fictional figures. Through witty critiques and audience participation, we’ll interrogate why some characters remain revered despite glaring flaws while others are unfairly forgotten or misunderstood. What does our collective memory choose to retain, and what are we rewriting with each new adaptation, retelling, or reinterpretation?

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)

67nd Annual Conference, hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York on October 24-26, 2025. According to the AACS conference description: the theme of the conference is “Charting New Paradigms: China and the Chinese Diaspora in a Changing World Order” in multiple aspects of culture, diplomacy, economy, education, health, history, literature, politics, and society.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

Call for Papers: Modernist Cosmopolitanism

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA 2025 Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student

Modernism has long been associated with transnational exchanges, migratory identities, and an engagement with global cultures. The modernist period witnessed an unprecedented interplay between local traditions and global influences, as writers, artists, and intellectuals navigated new cultural landscapes shaped by colonialism, war, exile, and technological advancement.

In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.

Call for Papers

An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture

August 4-6, 2025

Jeju National University

South Korea

Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US

The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective

30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium 

Deadline: April 4, 2025

Symposium Date: May 11, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025

Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025

Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)

Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in

Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)

CONCEPT NOTE:

The Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Peter Lang, seeks to organise a conference entitled “Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” from 9 to 10 September 2025.