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Seminars

Please select a seminar for which you would like to propose a paper. Current ACLA guidelines specify that each ACLA member may submit only ONE PAPER for consideration. Abstracts must be received by Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST.

Creative Nonfiction

Organizer: Dibakar Pal

Creative Nonfictions are invited from interested persons. Any topic between heaven and earth may be considered by the writers.

Cultivating Life in the Contemporary Caribbean

Organizer: Charlotte Rogers

In his Nobel Prize lecture, Gabriel García Márquez declared: “To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Neither floods nor plagues, famines nor cataclysms, nor even the eternal... more

Trans-Pacific (Mis)Encounters: New Forms of Cultural Exchange Between Latin America and Asia.

Organizer: Sebastián Patrón Saade

Globalization has created new forms of exchange for material and cultural goods, capital, and people on a worldwide scale as well as allowed for the emergence of direct relations between previously... more

Dichotomy of (Un)Belongingness and Fantasy: ‘Home’ and ‘Nation’ of the Post-Colonial Diaspora Narratives

Organizer: Sarat Kumar Jena

The fictional narratives of the margins authored by the ethnic members of the non-West diaspora vis-a`-vis members of the neo-nationalism established as a sub-genre in the post-colonial literary... more