For PAMLA 2026 123rd Annual Conference (Seattle, WA) – Nov. 12-15, 2026

Indigenous Literatures and Cultures session invites you to present work on Indigenous literary and cultural productions. We encourage papers that emerge from Indigenous contexts broadly conceived, including from First Nations, Alaska Native, American Indian, Pacific Islander/Pasifika, and other tribally specific genealogies; hemispheric, comparative, and global Indigenous connections; and other interdisciplinary formations of Indigenous Studies. We also welcome work that engages the wide range of genre, media, and textuality across which Indigenous literary and cultural production has always taken place. We are especially interested in proposals related to Indigenous nation-building, sovereignty, politics, and other topics that resonate with this year’s conference special theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”

Some (overlapping) topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

* Indigenous literary and cultural productions, especially by Coast Salish, Seattle-based, and/or Pacific Northwest Indigenous authors, artists, and culture keepers.

* Indigenous nation-building, nationhood, peoplehood, and sovereignty.

* The relationship between power and Indigenous knowledge systems, land and water relations, and norms of kinship and responsibility.

* Queer, Two-Spirit, and other LGBTQ+ histories of activism, community-building, and resistance.

* Indigenous feminisms and literatures.

* Indigenous critiques of colonial ruling classes, power structures, and other regimes of coloniality.

* Questions and limits of story, narrative, genre and aesthetic form.

Please submit an abstract via: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP, https://pamla.ballastacadem...