The 123rd Annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference will be held in person, November 12–15, 2026, in Seattle, Washington. 
The special panel session, “Global Asias: Empire and Indigeneity,” is currently seeking presentation proposals that engage with the topic through literature, film, and/or culture.   This special session takes up Global Asias as a way to rethink how questions of empire and indigeneity emerge. As Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks suggest, Global Asias is not a fixed field but an approach that brings Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Asian diaspora studies into relation while moving beyond nation-based and area studies frameworks. Taking up that approach, the panel focuses on literary, filmic, and cultural texts that stage encounters among Asian, Asian American, and Indigenous communities within imperial formations. In relation to PAMLA’s 2026 theme, “Our Ruling Classes,” the panel considers how such texts engage, negotiate, and resist authority. The panel welcomes work across languages and disciplines, particularly in literature, film, and culture. Papers may engage these questions directly or indirectly through a range of archives and approaches, including projects that do not sit comfortably within established frameworks of area and ethnic studies.  Please submit your proposals via the following link: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20149.You can also access the CFP through https://pamla.ballastacademic.com and enter “Global Asias” in Keyword Search at the top right corner.If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the panel organizer, Yuki Obayashi, at obayashi@sfsu.edu.