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THURSDAY May 29th

11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

  • ACLA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: "Without Censorship: On Academic Freedom"

    Organizer: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University
    Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025
    Time: 11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference

2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

  • ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

    Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia
    Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025
    Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM CDT
  • Pre-conference Workshop: "Publishing Your First Article" (Comparative Literature/Comparative Literature Studies)

    Organizers: Michael Allan, University of Oregon; Nergis Erturk
    Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025
    Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference

6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

  • Pre-conference Workshop: "Virtuality, AI, and Comparative Literature"

    Organizer: Alexa Joubin, George Washington University
    Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025
    Time: 6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference

FRIDAY May 30th

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

  • (The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

    Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

    Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

    Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

    Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Worlds and Worldlessness

    Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

    Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

    Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

    Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Broken Middles

    Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

    Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

    Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

    Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

    Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

    Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonisation and the Literary Field

    Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

    Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

    Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

    Organizers: Michiel Bot, Tilburg University; Dina Zbeidy, Leiden University of Applied Sciences
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

    Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

    Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

    Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

    Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

    Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Genealogies of World Comparatism

    Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ghost Figures in World Literature

    Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

    Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Legal Imagination

    Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

    Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

    Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

    Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

    Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

    Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

    Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

    Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Large Language Models and Literature

    Organizers: Nina Begus, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Aaron Hanlon, Colby College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

    Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

    Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa Luu
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

    Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

    Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

    Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceanic Humanities

    Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Photographic Practices of Repair

    Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

    Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

    Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

    Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Rebooting World SF

    Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

    Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

    Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Person in Law & Culture

    Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

    Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Translating the Caribbean

    Organizers: Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville; Laura Ekberg, Turun yliopisto (University of Turku)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

    Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • TV-Philosophy

    Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

    Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Varieties of the Impersonal

    Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • What is in Plain Sight?

    Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNY
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

    Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Work

    Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

    Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

  • "Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

    Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • “The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

    Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • (Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

    Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

    Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

    Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

    Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Worlds and Worldlessness

    Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Body, Language

    Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Breath Poetics

    Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

    Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

    Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Indenture

    Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

    Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

    Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

    Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Cultures of Energy Transition

    Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

    Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

    Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

    Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

    Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

    Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Hegel and World Literature

    Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

    Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

    Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

    Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

    Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

    Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

    Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

    Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

    Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

    Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Odd Temporalities

    Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

    Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

    Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

    Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Politics and Desire in the Archive

    Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Formalism in Context

    Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

    Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

    Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

    Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

    Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

    Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

    Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

    Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

    Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Autotheory

    Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

    Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

    Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

    Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

    Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

    Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

    Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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  • (Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

    Organizers: Shane Carreon, University of the Philippines; Ayelén Rosario Tissera, Instituto de Estudios Superior Clara Janet Armstrong
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

    Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • ADPCL Panel: "2024 Survey of PhD Programs in Comparative Literature in the U.S.: Takeaways and Next Steps"

    Organizers: Yopie Prins; Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas; Michael Allan, University of Oregon
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Alternatives to Narrative

    Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

    Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

    Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Attending To: Regard and Care

    Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto; Akosua T. Adasi, New York University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Black Genres of Political Theology

    Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Emory University; Kevin Pyon, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

    Organizers: Carolina Magaldi; Larissa Daroda, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

    Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska Omaha
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

    Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

    Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Literature's Cold War

    Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

    Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Cultures of Monoculture

    Organizers: Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Ben Beitler, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

    Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

    Organizer: Tatiana Konrad, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

    Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Documentary Fever

    Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

    Organizers: Adam Hill, McGill University; Denise Henschel, University of Warwick
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

    Organizer: KATHERIN YU, Stanford University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez; Daniel Brandlechner; Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

    Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University; Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College & Conservatory
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

    Organizers: Amanda Malone, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

    Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon; Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

    Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Brown University; Kinaya Hassane, New York University (NYU)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

    Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University; Jordana Greenblatt, York University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

    Organizers: Mo Pareles, University of British Columbia; Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Literature and International Development

    Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

    Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

    Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

    Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

    Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, University of Toronto; Ani Maitra, Colgate University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

    Organizers: Hena Sarkar, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Modernism, Religion, and Empire

    Organizers: Apala Das, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University); Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

    Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

    Organizer: Elizabeth Rose, University of Pennsylvania
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

    Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

    Organizer: Zach Wagner, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Public *Environmental* Humanities

    Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, University of California Santa Barbara; Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

    Organizer: Diego Bustos, Earlham College
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

    Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona); Neus Rotger Cerdà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

    Organizers: stef torralba, Grinnell College; Phuong Vuong, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

    Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

    Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Sensation and/as Method

    Organizers: Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore; Hayun Cho, University of Notre Dame
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Speculating Speculative Fiction

    Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern California
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Surplus Labour and World-Literature

    Organizer: Joshua Hambleton-Jewell, University College Dublin
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

    Organizers: Alex Valin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • The Poetics of Collecting

    Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College London
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Time, Memory, and the Western

    Organizers: Jordan Savage, University of Essex; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne; Richard Parker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

    Organizers: Alexandra Brown, Skidmore College; David Vivian, Soka University of America
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation Futures

    Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Undetermined Promising Futures

    Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

    Organizers: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU); Aleksandr Prigozhin, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

    Organizers: Irene Artigas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM); Susana González-Aktories, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • World Literature and Disappearance

    Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young University
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

    Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University Shanghai
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

    Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT

4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

  • Presidential Address: Karen Emmerich

    Organizers: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Karyn Ball, University of Alberta
    Day: Friday, May 30, 2025
    Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference

5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT

SATURDAY May 31st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

  • (The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

    Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

    Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

    Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

    Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

    Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

    Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

    Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Broken Middles

    Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

    Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

    Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

    Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

    Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

    Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonisation and the Literary Field

    Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

    Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

    Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

    Organizers: Michiel Bot, Tilburg University; Dina Zbeidy, Leiden University of Applied Sciences
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

    Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

    Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

    Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

    Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

    Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Genealogies of World Comparatism

    Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ghost Figures in World Literature

    Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

    Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Legal Imagination

    Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

    Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

    Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

    Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

    Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

    Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

    Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

    Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Large Language Models and Literature

    Organizers: Nina Begus, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Aaron Hanlon, Colby College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

    Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

    Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa Luu
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

    Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

    Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

    Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceanic Humanities

    Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Photographic Practices of Repair

    Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

    Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

    Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

    Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Rebooting World SF

    Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

    Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

    Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Person in Law & Culture

    Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

    Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Translating the Caribbean

    Organizers: Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville; Laura Ekberg, Turun yliopisto (University of Turku)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

    Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • TV-Philosophy

    Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

    Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Varieties of the Impersonal

    Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • What is in Plain Sight?

    Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNY
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

    Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Work

    Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

    Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

  • "Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

    Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • “The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

    Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • (Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

    Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • (The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

    Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

    Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

    Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

    Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Worlds and Worldlessness

    Organizers: Roland Vegso, University of Georgia; Rok Bencin, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Body, Language

    Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Breath Poetics

    Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

    Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

    Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Indenture

    Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

    Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

    Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

    Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Cultures of Energy Transition

    Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

    Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

    Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

    Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

    Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Ghost Figures in World Literature

    Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

    Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Hegel and World Literature

    Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

    Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

    Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

    Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

    Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

    Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

    Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

    Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

    Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

    Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Odd Temporalities

    Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

    Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

    Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

    Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Politics and Desire in the Archive

    Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Formalism in Context

    Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

    Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

    Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

    Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

    Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

    Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

    Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Persistence of Existentialism

    Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

    Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Autotheory

    Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

    Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

    Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

    Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

    Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

    Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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  • (Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

    Organizers: Shane Carreon, University of the Philippines; Ayelén Rosario Tissera, Instituto de Estudios Superior Clara Janet Armstrong
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

    Organizers: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta; Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston; Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

    Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Alternatives to Narrative

    Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

    Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

    Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Attending To: Regard and Care

    Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto; Akosua T. Adasi, New York University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Black Genres of Political Theology

    Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Emory University; Kevin Pyon, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

    Organizers: Carolina Magaldi; Larissa Daroda, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

    Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska Omaha
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Broken Middles

    Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

    Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

    Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Literature's Cold War

    Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

    Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Cultures of Monoculture

    Organizers: Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Ben Beitler, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

    Organizer: Tatiana Konrad, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

    Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Documentary Fever

    Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

    Organizers: Adam Hill, McGill University; Denise Henschel, University of Warwick
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

    Organizer: KATHERIN YU, Stanford University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez; Daniel Brandlechner; Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

    Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Christopher Newport University; Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College & Conservatory
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

    Organizers: Amanda Malone, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

    Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, University of Oregon; Adrienne Resha, University of Virginia
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

    Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Brown University; Kinaya Hassane, New York University (NYU)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

    Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University; Jordana Greenblatt, York University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

    Organizers: Mo Pareles, University of British Columbia; Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Literature and International Development

    Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

    Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

    Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

    Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, University of Toronto; Ani Maitra, Colgate University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

    Organizers: Hena Sarkar, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Modernism, Religion, and Empire

    Organizers: Apala Das, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University); Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

    Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

    Organizer: Elizabeth Rose, University of Pennsylvania
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

    Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

    Organizer: Zach Wagner, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Public *Environmental* Humanities

    Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, University of California Santa Barbara; Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

    Organizer: Diego Bustos, Earlham College
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

    Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona); Neus Rotger Cerdà, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

    Organizers: stef torralba, Grinnell College; Phuong Vuong, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

    Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

    Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Sensation and/as Method

    Organizers: Yanbing Er, National University of Singapore; Hayun Cho, University of Notre Dame
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Speculating Speculative Fiction

    Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern California
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

    Organizers: Alex Valin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jasleen Singh, University of Toronto
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • The Poetics of Collecting

    Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College London
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Time, Memory, and the Western

    Organizers: Jordan Savage, University of Essex; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne; Richard Parker, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

    Organizers: Alexandra Brown, Skidmore College; David Vivian, Soka University of America
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation Futures

    Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Undetermined Promising Futures

    Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

    Organizers: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU); Aleksandr Prigozhin, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

    Organizers: Irene Artigas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM); Susana González-Aktories, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM)
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • World Literature and Disappearance

    Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young University
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

    Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University Shanghai
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
  • Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

    Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT

  • Keynote Lecture: Aslı Iğsiz, "Rethinking Displacement and the Humanities in the Civilizationist Present"

    Organizer: Asli Igsiz
    Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025
    Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference

SUNDAY June 1st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

  • Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

    Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

    Organizers: Delia Ungureanu, Universitatea din Bucure?ti (University of Bucharest); Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

    Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University; Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

    Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

    Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Universität Passau (University of Passau); Shoumik Bhattacharya, Metropolitan State University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

    Organizers: Florian Zappe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich); James Dowthwaite, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (University of Mainz)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

    Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South Carolina
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Broken Middles

    Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

    Organizer: Titas Bose, University of Chicago
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

    Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Xiaolong Hou, Moravian University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

    Organizers: Marie Huber, Stanford University; Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

    Organizers: Shirl Yang, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

    Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia, The University of New Mexico
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonisation and the Literary Field

    Organizers: Michelle Kelly, King's College London; Jarad Zimbler, King's College London
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

    Organizers: Esther Edelmann, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Thomas Bragdon, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

    Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

    Organizer: Alexander Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

    Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, McGill University; Moinak Banerjee, McGill University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

    Organizers: Ileana Baird, Zayed University; Chrysavgi Papagianni, University of Patras
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

    Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

    Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Genealogies of World Comparatism

    Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana Stan
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Ghost Figures in World Literature

    Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

    Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of Toronto
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Legal Imagination

    Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

    Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

    Organizer: Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

    Organizers: Zachary Hicks, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Alice Lovejoy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

    Organizer: Asijit Datta, SRM University-AP (India)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

    Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

    Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of Georgia
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

    Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Saint Anselm College; Ruma Sinha, Rider University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

    Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

    Organizers: Philip Mills, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Goethe University Frankfurt); Joel De Lara, Georgetown University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

    Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

    Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

    Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, University of Chicago; Joseph Staten, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceanic Humanities

    Organizers: Sarah Senk, California State University Maritime Academy; Colin Dewey, California State University Maritime Academy
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Photographic Practices of Repair

    Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

    Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

    Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Rafid C, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

    Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Rebooting World SF

    Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

    Organizers: Jecheol Park, Seoul National University; Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

    Organizer: Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Person in Law & Culture

    Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Schneck, Osnabrück University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

    Organizers: Noah Terrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; SUBARNA MONDAL, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

    Organizers: Lucas Klein, Arizona State University; Chris Song, University of Toronto
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • TV-Philosophy

    Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Elif Sendur, Rutgers University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

    Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Providence College; Julia Calderón, Indiana University Bloomington
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Varieties of the Impersonal

    Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate Center
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Work

    Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
  • Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

    Organizers: Marc Botha, Durham University; Heather Yeung, University of Dundee
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

  • "Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

    Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • “The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

    Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University; Asha Varadharajan, Queen's University Ontario
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • (Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

    Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany Buscio
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • (The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

    Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

    Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

    Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi, Columbia University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

    Organizer: Laura Ritland, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

    Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, SOAS University of London; Linda Chu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

    Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

    Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Ohio State University; Kelly Ferguson, Miami University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Body, Language

    Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Breath Poetics

    Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

    Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

    Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

    Organizers: Michael Reyes, Vassar College; Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Carolyn Ownbey, Golden Gate University; Cait Jones, Carleton University; Armin Fardis, San Francisco State University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Indenture

    Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

    Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

    Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston; Sucheta Kanjilal, The University of Tampa
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

    Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Cultures of Energy Transition

    Organizers: Martin Premoli, Pepperdine University; Izzy Lockhart, New York University (NYU)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

    Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of Houston
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

    Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

    Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University; Peter Baker, University of Stirling
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

    Organizers: Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky; Jini Kim Watson, The University of Melbourne
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

    Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University; Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Ghost Figures in World Literature

    Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Tel Aviv University; Maysoon Shibi, Freie Universität Berlin; Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study - Casa de Velázquez; Diego Baena, Trinity College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

    Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Hegel and World Literature

    Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College Dublin
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

    Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Ilios Willemars, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

    Organizers: Rini Tarafder, University of Denver; Amrapali Chatterjee, Western University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

    Organizers: Jean Amato, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology; Kyunghee Pyun, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

    Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

    Organizers: Daniel Runnels, University of Central Missouri; José Luis Suárez Morales, Texas Christian University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

    Organizers: Isabelle Hesse, The University of Sydney; Meg Brayshaw, The University of Sydney
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

    Organizers: Sarah Vidal Horta, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC); Iker Arranz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

    Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Southern Connecticut State University; Sohyun Lee, Texas Christian University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

    Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

    Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

    Organizers: Nidesh Lawtoo, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University); Mathijs Peters, Universiteit Leiden (Leiden University)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Odd Temporalities

    Organizers: Juan Meneses, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Matthew Scully, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

    Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Fulbright University Vietnam; Adam Yaghi, New York University Shanghai
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

    Organizers: Steven Maye, Capilano University; Maria Dikcis, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

    Organizers: Nida Sajid, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Muhammad Numan, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Politics and Desire in the Archive

    Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine); Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Formalism in Context

    Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of Cambridge
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

    Organizers: George Handley, Brigham Young University; Animesh Roy, St. Xavier's College, Simdega, India
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

    Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Bordeaux Montaigne University); Eli Park Sorensen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

    Organizers: Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

    Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam); Tessel Veneboer, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

    Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

    Organizers: Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside); Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

    Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

    Organizers: Carlos Gontijo Rosa, Federal University of Acre (UFAC); Esther Marinho Santana, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • The Persistence of Existentialism

    Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson College
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

    Organizer: Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Translation and Autotheory

    Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of Iowa
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

    Organizer: Valeria Meiller, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA); Irene Bulla, Independent Scholar
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

    Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of Alberta
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

    Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Emma Lieber
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

    Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
  • Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

    Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sofía Forchieri, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
    Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

  • ACLA Board Meeting

    Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025
    Time: 3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT
    Location: Virtual Conference
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