postcolonial

“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic” - Audre Lorde (1984)

“Living as I have argued we do in the wake of slavery, in spaces where we were never meant to survive, or have been punished for surviving and for daring to claim or make spaces of something like freedom, we yet reimagine and transform spaces for and practices of an ethics of care (as in repair, maintenance, attention), an ethics of seeing, and of being in the wake as consciousness; as a way of remembering and observance that started with the door of no return, continued in the hold of the ship and on the shore.” - Christina Sharpe (2016)

When: April 3 & 4, 2020

Where: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Keynote speakers: Dr. Sherryl Vint & Dr. Rei Terada

Proposal: 250 words

Contact: Heidi Wallace and Sarah Wilhoit; arizonanewdirections@gmail.com

The Uncanny in Language, Literature and CultureInternational Conference15 August 2020 – London, UKorganised byLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

The twentieth-century literature and culture tended to explore and to celebrate subjectivity. But this tendency did not mean the turn to the self, but beyond the self, or as Charles Taylor puts it, “to a fragmentation of experience which calls our ordinary notions of identity into question”. 

Graduate Conference: OCAD University, Toronto ON

Economies of Dispossession, March 13-14, 2020

Conference Date: April 4, 2020

Liu Institute for Global Studies

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Chandan Reddy

Associate Professor, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

University of Washington

Race is not only about identity or skin colour. Capitalism has been racialized from its origins, and has produced a modern world system that derives economic value from the commodification of racial identities through slavery, imperialism, and genocide. Furthermore, racial capitalism has been accompanied by biopolitical technologies that regulate sexuality and enforce heteronormativity making it also a gendered process. 

Call For Essay Proposals

Posthuman Fantasies and Anxious Desires in Black Mirror

Edited by Jacob Blevins and Zahi Zalloua

English in a World of Strangers: Rethinking World Anglophone Studies 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien / GAPS)

Vergil’s Aeneid is, of course, a longtime standard of the liberal arts curriculum. However, it has seen revived interest outside the academy. Since 2017, Vergil’s epic has featured in articles in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. All three articles argue that the Aeneid speaks as much to modernity as it does to antiquity. Mendelsohn’s New Yorker piece put it best, writing,

                                                       The Department of English

                                                            University of Delhi 

                                                               organizes an

                                                       International Conference

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                             Gandhi in the Private and the Public Sphere: Image, Text, and Performance

                                                             March 4-5, 2020

“Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Eighteenth Century” 

This is a call for abstracts for a panel submission to the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Postcolonial Anglophone Studies (GAPS). Please submit a 300 word abstract for your proposed conference paper, along with your name, email address, and institutional affiliation. Your abstract should summarize your conference paper’s subject, argument, methodology, and contribution to the field. Please read the panel description and the prompts below, and submit your abstracts to alokamatya2@gmail.com no later than Dec 25, 2019. Selected abstracts will be included in the panel submission before Dec 31, 2019. 

Proposed chapter abstracts are invited for a volume entitled Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom: Ideas and Activities from Teachers and Linguists. This collection is a follow-up to the 2019 Routledge volume Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom: Strategies and Models from Teachers and Linguists (https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Language-Variation-in-the-Classroom-S...). 

Kritika Kultura invites interested scholars to submit manuscripts to a Forum Kritika on Spanish Literature on the Philippines, guest edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova of University of Antwerp (Belgium). Selected papers will be published in the August 2021 issue of Kritika Kultura (ISSN: 1656-152x), an international peer-reviewed journal indexed in, among others, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate), EBSCO, and Scopus.

                                                           Call for chapters for edited book

deadline for abstract submissions: February 27, 2020

deadline for full manuscript submissions: March 30, 2020

(Minimum word limit: 4000 words, MLA 8th Style of Writing)

Religion in South Asian Fictions to be edited by Sk Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar and Nasima Islam

Concept Note: