Two Sessions at the MLA Convention on Reparations for Empire (under the Just In Time option)
I am proposing two "Just In Time" sessions at the MLA Convention (January, Los Angeles) on reparations for empire. They are prompted by the passing of UN Resolution A/80/L.48 at the end of March. JIT session proposals can't be submitted until September, and I believe we hear in early November if the session is accepted and added to the convention program, or not. Also, you need to be a member of MLA to present.
See details below. If you are working on political justice in the context of imperialism / postcolonial (or adjacent) studies and would like to present, please email your proposal and short bio as indicated below. New deadline: Friday August 28th. The calls are posted on the MLA site (but no one checks it in the summer, so, posting here as well). See details below. Please get in touch with me if interested.
~Maureen Ruprecht, CUNY
--The first Call is this one:
The Longue Durée of Unjust Enrichment and the Question of RepairThe UN's March resolution called for slavery reparations. How write this “Emancipatory Narrative": confine reparations to extracted labor / laborer or repair the full colonial debt, including resource and cultural extraction? 300-word proposal + bio
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, August 16, 2026 -- I am extending the deadline to the following Friday, August 28th
Maureen E Ruprecht Fadem, CUNY (meruprecht@yahoo.com )
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36484.html
--The second, this one:
"UN Resolution A/80/L.48," an Emancipatory Narrative: What Strategy, Process, and Form to achieve Reparations?This UN Resolution, ratified March 25, 2026, calls for slavery reparations. How write this “Emancipatory Narrative": that is, how materially manifest the call to justice, what strategy, process, and what form? 300-word proposal + bio
Deadline for submissions: Friday, August 21, 2026 -- -- I am extending the deadline to the following Friday, August 28th
Maureen E Ruprecht Fadem, CUNY (meruprecht@yahoo.com ) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper36492.html
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