postcolonial

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Green Wall: Narrating Ethnicity, Belonging, and Environmental Nativism in South Asian Cultural Production

Guest Editors

Dr. Mansi Bose, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

&

Dr. Pratyusha Pramanik, Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India

Rationale

Call for Papers Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror International Interdisciplinary Conference 29 th – 30th June and 1st July, 2026  https://speculativenarratives.com/ NEW Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10th May 2026Venue: Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Organisers: Popular Culture Group  We invite scholars, researchers, and artists to submit abstracts for the upcoming academic conference, Speculative Narratives Beyond Consensus Reality: Navigating the Senses from Wonder to Horror.

Gender (In)Equity (SDG #5) and the Global South

In our current postdigital condition, digital technology is so deeply embedded in everyday life that the distinction between technical and natural is becoming increasingly blurred and images have become mere byproducts of our embodied co-existence with digital media. At the same time, we see that visual forms are continuously rendered obsolete by the rapidly evolving algorithmic processes. In new media, we are no longer even looking at “the image” any more, but rather always only at a version of an image that can be infinitely modified. Cameras are regularly used to connect the eye and the machine in a way that serves no aesthetic goal, creating purely “operational images” (Harun Farocki).

Guest Editors

Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan

Christina Banalopoulou, University of Milan

This edited volume emerges from a seminar panel that I proposed for the 2026 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) earlier this year. 

Volume Rationale: 

The edited volume seeks to understand the interdisciplinary field of Death Studies through the lens of decolonisation. 

Death Studies is a field of study that not only draws from a host of disciplines like anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology but also cuts across fields such as bereavement studies, trauma studies, and health humanities. 

This panel explores how Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures engage structures of power, hierarchy, and authority across diverse historical and cultural contexts. 

From the nineteenth century to the present, Francophone and Hispanophone fantastic literatures have unsettled the boundaries between the real and the impossible. Emerging from interconnected histories shaped by imperial expansion, colonial violence, dictatorship, revolution, and migration, the fantastic operates not only as narrative hesitation, but as a subtle language of power. As theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov and David Roas have shown, ontological uncertainty is never merely aesthetic. It signals deeper crises of authority, perception, and legitimacy. 

44th Annual West Indian Literature Conference

Freedom, Creative Spirit, & the Poetic Imagination

Where: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus

When: October 7-11, 2026

Abstracts: Proposals are to be submitted by June 1, 2026

How can you free people? . . . When every move you make is to get them to accept conditions of unfreedom, when you use power to twist and corrupt what it is to be human, when you ask people to accept shame as triumph and indignity as progress? —Earl Lovelace, Salt (1996)

Conference Information

CONCEPT NOTE

How do South Asian literary traditions narrate, contest, and reimagine the relationship between human societies and their material environments beyond Western-centric ecocritical paradigms? What happens when rivers, mountains, soils, deserts, and elemental forces are read not merely as passive settings, but as vibrant, agentive forces entangled with colonial legacies, caste stratifications, and place-based epistemologies?

Reading and discussing stories that include representations of sexual assault involves a paradox. There is a need to represent, expose, and challenge the ideologies and systems that enable such assault. At the same time, interacting with such representations can be an imposition on those who experience sexual violence, misogyny, and cisheterosexism. Because sexual assault trauma is often felt in the body in recurring reverberations throughout a person’s life, textual representations of it may trigger a trauma response. Rape culture ensures that sexual assault remains obscured by shame and victim-blaming, making it profoundly difficult to resolve sexual assault trauma.

Nocturnal Dissent: State Oppression, Control and Urban Resistance in Indian Literature and Cinema

(Call for Book Chapters)

Editors:

Subashish Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India

&

Saikat Pradhan, Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal, India

To be published under a Book Series by a reputed international publishing house (Our first choices are Routledge and Bloomsbury)

About the book:

International Conference on

Environmental Precarity and Planetary Aesthetics: Voices, Epistemologies, and Geopolitics of the Global South

25 & 26 February 2027

Organised by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India

Concept note

2027 SALA Annual Conference: Water as Matter, Matters of Water: South Asian Political, Historical, and Literary Flows

Venue: Online on Zoom
Dates: Mar. 13-14, 2027
Deadline for proposals: Dec. 10, 2026