This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures? 

MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme! 

We welcome papers that address, but are not limited to, the following topics: 

• Analytical explorations of how literature, language, and performance articulate and reveal multiple layers of justice.
• Critical examinations of the ways stories, poems, songs, and performances confront, challenge, or respond to the abuse of power.
• Investigations into the use and adaptation of traditional literary forms, genres, or rhetorical strategies in contemporary contexts.
• Studies of representations of fairness, inequality, and equity across cultures, historical periods, or media.
• Research on how creative and performative expression envisions alternative futures or possibilities for justice.
• Analyses of the intersections of identity, culture, and justice within literary and linguistic frameworks.
• Scholarly inquiries into the role of storytelling, performance, or rhetoric in activism and social transformation.
• Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding justice through literature, language, and the arts.
• Abstracts: 250–300 words
• Include title, author(s), affiliation(s), and contact information 

• Abstracts: 250–300 words 

• Include title, author(s), affiliation(s), and contact information