How do postcolonial literatures imagine hospitality in a world shaped by colonial histories, forced migration, displacement, and contested belonging? This panel invites papers that examine the ethics and politics of hospitality through postcolonial, diasporic, and transnational literary and cultural texts. Moving beyond hospitality as a simple act of welcome, the panel seeks to explore its tensions, contradictions, and possibilities: Who is welcomed, excluded, or rendered perpetually a stranger? How do migration, exile, memory, language, and cultural difference reshape notions of home, community, and kinship?

We welcome papers engaging with literatures from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Latin America, Indigenous contexts, and other Global South or diasporic traditions. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, including work on refugee narratives, translation, multilingualism, border studies, memory studies, gender, environmental displacement, and decolonial or postcolonial theory.

Please submit a 250-word abstract along with a brief bio-note (75–100 words). We particularly encourage proposals that offer innovative perspectives on how literature and cultural texts challenge conventional understandings of hospitality, belonging, and ethical responsibility in an increasingly interconnected yet divided world.