We invite proposals for individual papers for the critical mixed race studies panel at the annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Washington, from November 12-15, 2026. 

Paper proposals are due by May 25, 2026.

Critical mixed race studies is an emerging field that examines constructions of race through a focus on the multiracial subject. This often interdisciplinary and transnational study highlights—to use the words of founding scholars Camilla Fojas, Laura Kina, and Wei Ming Dariotis—“the mutability of race” in order to address “local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization” ("What is CMRS?"). Beginning with this focus, this special session considers how literary, filmic, and/or cultural texts explore multiraciality in relation to the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” How do representations of multiraciality reflect, refract, and/or rend the hierarchies of power built around race, gender, sexuality, and class? How do representations of multiraciality intersect with and/or interrogate colonial hierarchies or anti-colonial resistance? How do representations of multiraciality imagine, locally and globally, collective action and community formation? This special session seeks papers that explore these and other questions through literary, filmic, and cultural texts across a range of historical periods, geographic areas, and genres. 

To submit an abstract, please visit https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19979

For more information on the conference, please visit https://www.pamla.org/pamla2026/

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Citation: "What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?" Critical Mixed Race Studies, 2024, https://criticalmixedracestudies.com/what-is-critical-mixed-race-studies/