postcolonial

“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is  at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and  its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.

The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature. 

Contributions can take two forms:

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 was intended to forestall global wars and inaugurate global peace. Despite its efforts and those of other international and regional organizations, wars have persisted in the 21st century. For instance, in Africa, countries are engulfed in the vortex of armed conflicts from the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to the farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria and the Somali government/Al-Shabab Islamist militant group conflict. This violence is echoed in the post-election tensions between the military and insurgents (Allied Democratic Forces) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just like the post-Tigray War conflicts in Ethiopia.

Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?”

Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric Larsen (Aarhus University), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)

Seeking presentations on literatures, theories, and pedagogies conducive to fostering metalinguistic appreciation and awareness in an age of disappearing foreign language requirements. 300-word abstract and short CV.

The Brain and the Body: the Love Affair of the Cognitive and the Corporeal
in Literature
GWU English Graduate Student Association Symposium
March 2025

Keynote Address by Dr. Evelyn Tribble

The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.

Cultural Texts and Contexts in the English-Speaking World (IX)

2025 Theme: “History Claims Everybody”

Online Conference – March 28th, 2025

Hosted by the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea

Conference Scope

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

Panel 16

Remediating the West

Coordinators:
Elena Lamberti (Università di Bologna), elena.lamberti@unibo.it
Mattia Arioli (Università di Bologna), mattia.arioli2@unibo.it

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

One-Day International Conference

Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda

Conference Date

February 20, 2025

(Hybrid Mode) 

Ambivalent Solidarities: South Asian Women’s Intellectual, Affective and Activist Networks

Editors:

Hiya Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya, Vidyasagar University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

Migrant Sensoria–special issue of The Senses and Society

What are the sensory experiences of migration? How do migrants negotiate their movement not only between spaces and cultures, but between different configurations of sensory environments, habits, and values? How do traumatic contexts of migration register—or fail to register—in sensory experience, and in sensorially entangled memories? How do different sensory arrangements and pedagogies contribute to the erosion, maintenance, or resurgence of collective memories across individual and trans-generational time? How might sensory experiences and interventions contribute to migrant performance, stories, and media—and to articulating “migrant futures” (Bahng)?

Call for Papers

In the postmillennial era, South Asian graphic narratives have emerged as powerful mediums for exploring traditional notions of gender and sexuality. This panel examines the ways in which these contemporary visual storytelling forms address and subvert the cultural constructs surrounding gender and sexual identities in South Asia.

Panel description:

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