world literatures and indigenous studies

In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?

How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?

Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ... this * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.

Contributors are invited to consider:

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Abstracts deadline:15 June 2025.

Publication date:    Summer 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              English, or Finnish

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Global Literatures

This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in global literatures. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing? 

This virtual global symposium invites presentations that explore all aspects of pregnancy loss: abortion—elective, forced, spontaneous, and therapeutic—as well as stillbirth, highlighting its complexity and diversity.Pregnancy loss is a complex and contentious issue that is garnering increasing public and political scrutiny. Access to abortion—whether available or restricted—entails numerous personal, medical, legal, and ethical considerations related to reproductive justice, women’s autonomy, health, human rights, feminism, and motherhood.

Prospective Essay Volume

Call for Book Chapters

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.

We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.

IATIS Yearbook 2025

Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)

Title:

Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:

Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia

1. Rationale:

 International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies 

ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html

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Submission System 

Scope

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** May Issue***

Submission System 

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This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Original, unpublished research papers are invited for an edited volume titled Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South, scheduled to be published in 2025.