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Recovering Southeast Asian Identity through the Postcolonial Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
James Matthew Villanueva / Temple University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Northeast MLA, March 5-8 2026

This session explores how postcolonial Southeast Asian literature grapples with memory, trauma, archival recovery, and cultural identity. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging, agency, and identity. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures.

International Conference on Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 10:53am
Giacomo Leoni, University College Cork
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025


International Conference
Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media
University College Cork, Ireland
29–30 November 2025

The International Conference “Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media” will take place on 29–30 November 2025 at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. 

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be:

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Friday, June 20, 2025 - 12:01pm
Foundation for Developed India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

NRITYAJYOTI FESTIVAL: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2025

Organised by 

Foundation for Developed India

 

20th September, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Concept Note:

Working With Tainted Legacies (virtual NeMLA panel)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 10:10am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro last year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but one of many revelations in recent years to upend the legacy of a cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse. Similarly, disputed claims to Indigenous ancestry touted by artists including novelist Joseph Boyden and singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie have generated outrage and heartbreak among Indigenous groups and innumerable admirers, compounding generational traumas.

Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters

updated: 
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 5:56am
Karine Germoni
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The CfP for the hybrid panel "Indigenous and Creole Transcultural Encounters" (NeMLA 2026 convention) is now open (please see abstract and description below). 

 The convention will take place in Pittsburgh, PA on March 5-8, 2026.

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