Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

Call for Papers

 Vol. IX, Issue 2 (June 2024) 

Special Session: Moderln Language Association Conference, New Orleans. January 9-12, 2025.

Eleventh International Iris Murdoch Conference

University of Chichester, 30 August -1 September 2024: First Call for Papers

The Eleventh International Conference on Iris Murdoch studies will take place at the University of Chichester in 2024. The conference will showcase ongoing, and published, Murdoch scholarship with a particular focus on Aspirations and Inspirations.

Focusing on the interplay between “Desire and Collectivity,” the third symposium of The Association of Postcolonial Thought gestures to the many political, personal, and affective drives that structure our orientation to the past and to the possibilities of the present. It likewise speculates about the collectivities such desires engender and the futures they call into being. While the 2022 APT rubric, “Anticolonialism as Theory,” reconsidered the past through the foundations of postcolonial thought, and the 2023 APT topic, “Crisis,” contemplated the calamities of our present, the 2024 theme asks us to envision the possibilities of what could be.

CFP: Small Screen Food: American Identity Through a Culinary Televisual Lens

Salman Rushdie characterized the serial television show “as the novelistic medium of the 21st century,” signifying its emerging importance and elevating its status to a realm traditionally occupied by novels. This shift, propelled by technological advancements and new patterns in media consumption like streaming and binge-watching, highlights televisions’ artistic and cultural importance. Rushdie’s view acknowledges television series as valuable cultural artifacts of considerable artistic depth and cultural weight.

Forthcoming Book Series: Global Historical Fictions

Defining historical fictions as encompassing of many media forms, this book series invites contributions that consider the multiple ways in which we shape history for diverse purposes, and that investigate popular history in a variety of contexts, and modes.

EXTENSION OF DEADLINE On account of a technical fault on the British Shakespeare Association website that people were asked to use to submit proposals for papers at this conference, which prevented some people from making their submissions, the organizers of this conference are extending the deadline for submissions to 29 February 2024. Everything else stated below still stands.

British Shakespeare Associatoin 2024 Conference

'Shakespeare's Writing Lives' commemorating the 20th anniversary of the BSA's journal, Shakespeare, 26-28 June 2024, De Montfort University, Leicester.

(Un)Pretty: Interrogations of Beauty in Literature

Call for Proposals

York University English Graduate Students Association Conference

May 10th, 2024

In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry writes:

Academic workshop at the University of Tübingen, Germany

10-12 June 2024 (in person)

In an increasingly globalized world, where a combination of digital technologies and multiple possibilities for migration, as well as the unfortunate realities of regional conflicts and climate change, people are brought together not just across geographical but also socio-cultural barriers. Race, class, gender, and creed, among other factors, come into collusion and synchrony in the most stunning ways to produce more and more questions about the value and meaning of a human life. In this context, the question of authentic voice and its representation looms paramount and the writing of literature its biggest ally.

The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Interdisciplinary Studies Committee will host a full-day conference, Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning,on Friday, October 18, 2024. This conference invites individual presentations, panel presentations, short talks, and workshop proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following topics as they relate to interdisciplinary exploration of the latest educational strategies, innovations, and practices. 

Women Writing War: Visibility and Representation in South Asian Literary Fiction Abstracts solicited for an MLA 2025 session to explore women's role in writing violence in S Asia. How has the question of visibility and representation affected women's voice and agency? 250-word abstracts, 100-word bios.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Aparajita De, University of the District of Columbia (de.aparajita@gmail.com )

The scientific journal Studia Polensia, published by the Department of Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Pula/Pola, Croatia, is seeking articles for the 2024 issue. The journal publishes theoretical, research and methodological articles in Italian, English and Croatian languages in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary research. The journal follows Open Access politics for all of its content. By submitting an article to the journal, the author implicitly accepts its publication under the license Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Authors retain their copyright of the work.

CfP: Decolonizing African Cinema in the Age of Media Streaming: Conference in Honor of Onookome Okome

Date: May 22–24, 2024

Venue: University of Abuja, Nigeria

Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2024

Feedback: April 15, 2024

Registration: May 1 – 21, 2024

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sheila Petty, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance,University of Regina, Regina, Canada

First Lead Paper Presenters: Dr. Peter Sylvanus Emaeyak, Department of Music, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017), James Phelan suggests a transformative approach to narrative theory, shifting the focus from seeing narrative as a mere structural entity to understanding it as a rhetorical act. In this act, the narrator strategically utilizes storytelling tools to achieve specific goals for specific audiences.