We invite papers for the panel “Meeting the (Re)Generated Other” at NeMLA 2026 annual convention. This panel is in-person only.

What will we want from the constructed companions and servants we build? And what will they want/take from us? SF writers, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and game designers imagine futures featuring sentient artificial beings—domestics, soldiers, sexual partners, protectors—interacting with the humans that make them. These texts operate as thought experiments about how we natural-born humans might coexist and interact with the posthumans we will shortly create.

This panel invites proposals using the tools of postcolonial theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, subaltern theory, techno-Orientalism, or other frame to analyze the implications of human-cyborg relations in SF texts published in the 21st century.

The deadline for proposals is September 30th, 2025. Please submit your abstract and bio at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21595