Forced Displacement and Expressions of Emancipation

deadline for submissions: 
March 20, 2026
full name / name of organization: 
Mohammad Akbar Hosain/ Illinois State University
contact email: 

 This panel invites 250-word abstracts on creative and aesthetic expressions of emancipation emerging from refugee, diasporic, and forcibly dispossessed contexts across the Global South, examining resistance, agency, and world‑making within displacement and humanitarian regimes.