Looking for citations. It is my sense that most of the people who are in the African literature MLA forum are working on African literature from the 1950s through the 2010s. If you conduct research on literature written earlier, pre-1950s, especially African literature from the 1800s or earlier, please let me know. I am a faculty member publishing…[Read more]

Enthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.

For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]

Dear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:

I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García.  The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history.  We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]

This session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]

July 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)

From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]

July 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)

From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]

Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[Read more]

The Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]