If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land dispossession and invisibility within the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies, send a 250-word abstract to this panel. All kinds of activist artworks are welcome: films, motion pictures, docuseries, plastic, textile, performance, music, paintings, literature, etc. Papers can be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Timeframe: 19th-21st century. Submit your abstract through the MLA CFP section at: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26535.html

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Chair: Nicole Bonino, University of Virginia (nb3hf@virginia.edu) Dr. Nicole Bonino is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian, Academic General Faculty, in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. She works under the umbrella of global mobility investigating the socio-cultural legacy of enforced migration provoked by slave trade, land dispossession, and environmental disasters. Specifically, her research analyzes the artistic production of activists fighting for visibility within the theoretical framework of decolonial aesthetics.