Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]

Digitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more]

CfP: Sessions Organized by the MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching2024 Modern Language Association Annual ConventionJanuary 4-7, Philadelphia
The MLA Forum on Second-Language Learning and Teaching invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2024 MLA…[Read more]

Digitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more]

CFP: We invite papers examining Lessing’s critique of neocolonialism in works such as <i>African Laughter</i>, especially in conversation with postcolonial African writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo,and Mbue. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, jo…[Read more]

CFP: We invite papers exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, song makers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works, and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, josnarege@comcast.net

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Teaching Beyond University

In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Ungrading as Liberatory Practice 

As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

• The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…

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The CFP below is for a pedagogy workshop to be conducted at the National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting in Baltimore, October 26–29, 2023.

“This workshop highlights pedagogical practices that seek to transform Feminist and Queer Studies classrooms into radical and liberatory spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Even as we emp…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

For the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.

1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]

Dear group members,

I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1

The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]

See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores tra…[Read more]