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11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT
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ACLA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: "Without Censorship: On Academic Freedom"
Organizer: Karen Emmerich, Princeton UniversityDay: Thursday, May 29, 2025Time: 11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT
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Opening Ceremony
Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025Time: 2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT
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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 ColumbiaDay: Thursday, May 29, 2025Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ErturkDay: Thursday, May 29, 2025Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT
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Pre-conference Workshop: "Virtuality, AI, and Comparative Literature"
Organizer: Alexa Joubin, George Washington UniversityDay: Thursday, May 29, 2025Time: 6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
FRIDAY May 30th
10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement
Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BloomingtonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 JerusalemDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics
Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South CarolinaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Broken Middles
Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of CambridgeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches
Organizer: Titas Bose, University of ChicagoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MexicoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LondonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.
Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 SciencesDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PatrasDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons
Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ParkDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Genealogies of World Comparatism
Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana StanDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics
Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of TorontoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Legal Imagination
Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind
Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CitiesDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving
Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature
Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of GeorgiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Literary Studies Beyond the Academy
Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam
Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa LuuDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ChicagoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AcademyDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Photographic Practices of Repair
Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness
Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts AmherstDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Rebooting World SF
Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts BostonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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-MadisonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TorontoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BloomingtonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Varieties of the Impersonal
Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate CenterDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
What is in Plain Sight?
Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNYDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith
Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Work
Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South CarolinaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 DundeeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT
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"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South
Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 OntarioDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology
Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany BuscioDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam
Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought
Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Body, Language
Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Breath Poetics
Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Children As the Future: Rights & Representations
Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Indenture
Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of ConnecticutDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation
Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British ColumbiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TampaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation
Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts
Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of HoustonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 StirlingDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MunichDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary
Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Hegel and World Literature
Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College DublinDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TechnologyDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature
Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of GeorgiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Labor in Global Speculative Fiction
Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context
Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ShanghaiDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, LahoreDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Postcolonial Formalism in Context
Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of CambridgeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, IndiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TexasDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Translation and Autotheory
Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of IowaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AntonioDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ScholarDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes
Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of AlbertaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LieberDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?
Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith
Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 NijmegenDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 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 ArmstrongDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ColumbiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 OregonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Alternatives to Narrative
Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Anti-Fascist Worldmaking
Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities
Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska OmahaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities
Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Caribbean Modernisms
Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. LouisDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Literature's Cold War
Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema
Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MelbourneDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Documentary Fever
Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 WarwickDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 & ConservatoryDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 VirginiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ColumbiaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Literature and International Development
Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 SydneyDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature
Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LondonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding
Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PennsylvaniaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PaltzDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BarbaraDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AustinDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen
Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine AcademyDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 DameDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Speculating Speculative Fiction
Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern CaliforniaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Surplus Labour and World-Literature
Organizer: Joshua Hambleton-Jewell, University College DublinDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TorontoDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
The Poetics of Collecting
Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College LondonDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AmericaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Translation Futures
Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Undetermined Promising Futures
Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
World Literature and Disappearance
Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery
Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University ShanghaiDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 NijmegenDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT
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ICLA Business Meeting
Organizer: Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT
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Presidential Address: Karen Emmerich
Organizers: Karen Emmerich, Princeton University; Karyn Ball, University of AlbertaDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT
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Awards Ceremony
Organizer: Karen Emmerich, Princeton UniversityDay: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
SATURDAY May 31st
10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement
Organizer: Zaynab Ali, Seneca CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BloomingtonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 JerusalemDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics
Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South CarolinaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Broken Middles
Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of CambridgeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches
Organizer: Titas Bose, University of ChicagoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MexicoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LondonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.
Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 SciencesDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PatrasDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons
Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ParkDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Genealogies of World Comparatism
Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana StanDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics
Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of TorontoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Legal Imagination
Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind
Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CitiesDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving
Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature
Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of GeorgiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Literary Studies Beyond the Academy
Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam
Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Albright College; Lisa LuuDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ChicagoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AcademyDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Photographic Practices of Repair
Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness
Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts AmherstDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Rebooting World SF
Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts BostonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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-MadisonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TorontoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BloomingtonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Varieties of the Impersonal
Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate CenterDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
What is in Plain Sight?
Organizers: Miryam Segal; Yitzhak Lewis, Queens College, CUNYDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith
Organizer: Niia Bishop, Allen UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Work
Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South CarolinaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 DundeeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
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"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South
Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 OntarioDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology
Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany BuscioDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam
Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought
Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Body, Language
Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Breath Poetics
Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Children As the Future: Rights & Representations
Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Indenture
Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of ConnecticutDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation
Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British ColumbiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TampaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation
Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts
Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of HoustonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 StirlingDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MunichDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary
Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Hegel and World Literature
Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College DublinDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving
Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TechnologyDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Labor in Global Speculative Fiction
Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context
Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ShanghaiDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, LahoreDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Postcolonial Formalism in Context
Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of CambridgeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, IndiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TexasDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
The Persistence of Existentialism
Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Translation and Autotheory
Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of IowaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AntonioDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ScholarDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes
Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of AlbertaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LieberDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?
Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 NijmegenDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArmstrongDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ColumbiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam
Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Alternatives to Narrative
Organizer: Nina Farizova, Kalamazoo CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Anti-Fascist Worldmaking
Organizers: Jessy Bell, Northwestern University; Patrick Noonan, Northwestern UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities
Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh, University of Nebraska OmahaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Broken Middles
Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of CambridgeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities
Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Caribbean Modernisms
Organizer: J. Dillon Brown, Washington University in St. LouisDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Literature's Cold War
Organizer: Cate Reilly, Duke UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema
Organizer: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MelbourneDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Documentary Fever
Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 WarwickDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 & ConservatoryDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 VirginiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ColumbiaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Literature and International Development
Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Howard University; Lauren Horst, Columbia UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 SydneyDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature
Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LondonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding
Organizer: Hsinmei Lin, Edmonds CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PennsylvaniaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PaltzDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BarbaraDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AustinDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen
Organizer: Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine AcademyDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 DameDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Speculating Speculative Fiction
Organizer: John Souza, University of Southern CaliforniaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TorontoDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
The Poetics of Collecting
Organizers: Guangchen Chen, Emory University; Emma Bielecki, King's College LondonDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AmericaDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Translation Futures
Organizers: Anandi Rao, SOAS University of London; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
Undetermined Promising Futures
Organizer: Michael Turcios, Northwestern UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
World Literature and Disappearance
Organizers: Joseph Wager, Stanford University; Peter Leman, Brigham Young UniversityDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT) -
World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery
Organizer: Arif Camoglu, New York University ShanghaiDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 NijmegenDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
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Keynote Lecture: Aslı Iğsiz, "Rethinking Displacement and the Humanities in the Civilizationist Present"
Organizer: Asli IgsizDay: Saturday, May 31, 2025Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference
SUNDAY June 1st
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Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction
Organizers: Ioana Pribiag, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Oana Panaite, Indiana University BloomingtonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 JerusalemDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics
Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk, University of South CarolinaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Broken Middles
Organizers: George Mather; Kieran Brown, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of CambridgeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches
Organizer: Titas Bose, University of ChicagoDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MexicoDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LondonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.
Organizer: Peter Ogunniran, Williams CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 PatrasDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons
Organizer: Moira Weigel, Harvard UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ParkDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Genealogies of World Comparatism
Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Washington University in St. Louis; Adriana StanDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics
Organizers: Carson Hammond, University of Toronto; Gabriel Briex, University of TorontoDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Legal Imagination
Organizer: Adam Schoene, McGill UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind
Organizer: Shaj Mathew, Trinity UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CitiesDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving
Organizer: Hudson Moura, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature
Organizer: Ali Ahsan, University of GeorgiaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Literary Studies Beyond the Academy
Organizers: Simone Murray, Monash University; Alexander Manshel, McGill UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature
Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ChicagoDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AcademyDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Photographic Practices of Repair
Organizers: Candela Marini, MSOE University; Juliana Fillies, Claremont McKenna CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness
Organizer: Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts AmherstDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Rebooting World SF
Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette University; Hugh O'Connell, University of Massachusetts BostonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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-MadisonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TorontoDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 BloomingtonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Varieties of the Impersonal
Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Stanford University; Joseph Henry, CUNY Graduate CenterDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT) -
Work
Organizers: Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South CarolinaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 DundeeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
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"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South
Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego); Ankita Deb, Stanford UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 OntarioDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology
Organizers: Hannah Link; Brittany BuscioDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam
Organizer: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought
Organizer: Adam Mohamed, Western UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Body, Language
Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Rutgers University; Serena Luckhoff, Brown UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Breath Poetics
Organizers: Mae Losasso, University of Warwick; Lucy Alford, Wake Forest UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Children As the Future: Rights & Representations
Organizer: Madelaine Hron, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities
Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese, Durham UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Indenture
Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Brown University; Najnin Islam, University of ConnecticutDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation
Organizers: Rusaba Alam; Torin McLachlan, University of British ColumbiaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TampaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation
Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Sikkim University; Saswati Saha, Sikkim UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts
Organizer: Auritro Majumder, University of HoustonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ArtsDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 StirlingDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MelbourneDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 MunichDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary
Organizer: Amanda Greer, McGill UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Hegel and World Literature
Organizers: Carson Welch, Duke University; Thomas Waller, University College DublinDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TechnologyDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Labor in Global Speculative Fiction
Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Washington State University; Emily Maguire, Northwestern UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 SydneyDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature
Organizer: Carlo Stranges, Showa Women’s UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context
Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University; Lara Harb, Princeton UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ShanghaiDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, LahoreDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Postcolonial Formalism in Context
Organizers: Arthur Rose, University of Exeter; Dominic O'Key, University of CambridgeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, IndiaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 KongDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 TexasDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
The Persistence of Existentialism
Organizer: Ben Roth, Emerson CollegeDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 UniversityDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Translation and Autotheory
Organizers: Jan Steyn, University of Iowa; Diana Thow, University of IowaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 AntonioDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 ScholarDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes
Organizer: Karyn Ball, University of AlbertaDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 LieberDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT) -
What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?
Organizer: Raquel Kennon, University of Wisconsin-MadisonDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: 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 NijmegenDay: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDTLocation: Virtual ConferenceStream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT
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ACLA Board Meeting
Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025Time: 3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDTLocation: Virtual Conference