postcolonial

This panel will explore the afterlives of women’s memories and experiences in South Asian archival practices their narratives of violence in South Asia.

“NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham, North Carolina!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

Greetings.

As the editor of the digital edition of the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Facts on File), I'm inviting scholars to contribute essays of approximately 1500-2000 words on one of the authors listed below. The digital edition has been contracted with Facts on File and is a peer-reviewed volume scheduled to be published in 2025. Much of the volume is completed, with a few outstanding biographies that need to be assigned.

Archives have become a site of contestation because of their status as “an imperial project of domination and affirmation” (Ištok 2016). It is specifically the case in the English-speaking world. The revelation in 2011 of the hiding and culling by British colonial authorities of “incriminating documents from former colonies in the months before each one became politically independent” (Diptée 2024) is a case in point. In this deliberate and pernicious meddling with archives, now known as “Operation Legacy”, the “mother country” aimed to tone down — if not silence — colonial violence and display a more humanist facet that was supposed to undergird the liberation of British territories from colonial shackles (Cobain 2016).

The origin myths of nations, regions, and cities provided an obvious appeal in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to those interested in the deep histories of the places where they lived and were born. While such stories were used to bolster local or national prestige, many origin myths also stretch across borders, inscribing deep connections between places: Britain claimed Trojan origins through Brutus’ foundation, but so too did the French, the Norse, and even the Dutch; and Noah’s offspring were believed to have been the originators of different peoples across Europe.

This ACLA 2025 virtual seminar convenes scholars working in philosophy and literature, broadly construed. It harnesses the frisson between global modernist literature and global philosophies of mind. Seemingly remote from reality, how might the philosophy of mind illuminate the modern global metropolis? Do idealist theories of reality—German, French, or Indian—have a place in accounts of modernity that are so often dominated by Marxian materialism? How might philosophy reconcile, or extricate us from, the impasse between singular and multiple theories of modernity? How does non-European philosophy complicate our extant understanding of this concept?

The explosion of revolutionary literature in South Asia is traced back to the formation of the All India Writers’ Association in 1936. Within a few years, the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed in 1943. Operating with a distinct socialist fervor partly inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, these umbrella organizations brought together hundreds of poets, writers, thespians, and musicians working in various languages across the length and breadth of undivided India to consolidate a consensus against colonialism and fascism. Although the 1947 partition soon separated them into India or East/West Pakistan, the polemics of their art could not be stopped from reverberating across borders.

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal 

Essays and Studies

Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change 

CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others.

Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.  

Genre and Video Games - Gothic and Horror

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Gothic and Horror Fiction” category of the collection. 

The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women, immigrants, and people of color were paid low wages and treated as expendable. However, amidst these challenges, the pandemic also catalyzed the expansion of alternative labor forms and care networks, beyond capitalist economies and social relations.

“Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”

Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2024

Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024

Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University), 

Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, 

Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo

Maryse Condé’s œuvre has tremendously impacted our understanding of the French Caribbean and Africa, but also of postcolonial France and the Americas as a whole. In a sense, she is truly « a writer for our times, » as the title of a recent tribute in Paris suggested.