For those of you working on African literatures, we welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:

The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South

Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College

Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University

Contact the Seminar…[Read more]

African Literature….Says Who? The Last Fifty Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Kenyan born and internationally acclaimed, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is the author of more major works of fiction, nonfiction, and drama than any African writer. His groundbreaking first novel Weep Not, Child recently celebrated fifty years, and he has since published over thir…[Read more]

The Sephardic Forum seeks proposals that explore the work of a Sephardic novelist, writing in any language, and the risks he or she has taken to further creative or sociopolitical goals.

Please email 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2015
to Jane Mushabac (jmushabac@citytech.cuny.edu)

Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]

Regarding the Good Life topic I proposed in my previous post, please note that you may e-mail me your abstracts at laura_savu@yahoo.com by Aug. 15. Thank you!

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990

 Post-Doctoral Fellowships

The European Research Council (ERC) project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990” under the direction of Dr. Louise Bethlehem (English & The Progr…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

La Mueva Jenerasion:

Contemporary Sephardic Production

The Sephardic Studies Discussion Group of the MLA announces a call for papers for the 2015 MLA Convention in Vancouver, BC. This panel seeks proposals of 200 words that explore the use of Judeo-Spanish in literary and cinematic expression post-1992. How and why is the language used…[Read more]