The PAMLA 2025 Conference (its 122th one) will be held at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference runs from Thursday, November 20 until November 23, 2025.
As part of PAMLA's 2025 theme “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” our special session entitled "Diaspora, Transnationalism, Transculturalism, and the Layered Self" invites scholars from diverse disciplines to consider the palimpsest as a symbolic metaphor for diasporic, transnational, and/or transcultural subjects. In light of troubling nationalisms, what might it mean to be a diasporic, transnational, and/or transcultural subject? What might it also mean to study texts and subjects that defy borders and neat categorizations?