Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema

The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]

Please help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

Please tell us about your experience teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey (use link above). Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

Special Session
Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).

Hello everyone,

Please spread the word and consider submitting an abstract to the following panel idea for MLA 2017:

Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies

Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globally through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries.…[Read more]

Critical Arab American Studies Series
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for its newly launched series in Arab American Studies. Expanding the Press’s historical concentration in Arab American Writing and Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, the new series will f…[Read more]

The International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford Uni…[Read more]

In this review, Conor McCarthy reviews four recent books discussing the pros and cons of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.  As he concludes, “these four books contain a wealth of ideas and information and a range of opinion that will enlighten anyone with even a passing interest in the matters of academic freedom and the politics of…[Read more]

Call for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins

JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]

Sixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more]

This past December, a conference was held in Ramallah, entitled: “Walter Benjamin in Palestine: On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought”. David Lloyd reports here on that conference, which was organized to honor the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions and as an alternative to a Benjamin conference being held in the same…[Read more]

This panel seeks papers that engage with questions, concepts, and histories of the “vernacular” or “vernacularization” beyond Europhone languages and contexts.

Submissions that address one or more of the following questions are encouraged.  How might we explore (and move beyond) the insufficiencies of Europhone terms —such as the “vernacula…[Read more]

CFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”

MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)

This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]

CFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”
MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
 

This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the contemporary…[Read more]

CFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”

MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)

This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Below is a CFP for a collaborative session organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Life Writing forum at the MLA.

Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by…[Read more]