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📢 Call for Papers for "The Cringing Continent" 📍Flinders University, Australia 🗓️9–12 February 2027 ⚠️Abstract deadline: 17 August 2026

This conference will aim to use the frame of the cultural cringe to curate a range of conversations critical to our disciplinary formation. While contributions from any area of Australian Studies are welcome, we particularly encourage those on:
- The cringe as a manifestation of coloniality
- Cringe comedy and Australian humour
- Ozploitation and Australian genre content
- Australian Modernism’s anxiety of influence
- Meanjin’s influence on Australian cultural life
- Australia as a small player in Europe / as a big player in the Indo-Pacific
- Cross-cultural perspectives on the cringe
- Nationalism, neo-liberalism and cringe
- Universities, social license and the cultural cringe
- The politics of cringe
- Anti-intellectualism as cringe
- Cringe as national pride
- The joy of cringe
- Festivals as institutionalised cringe.
The conference will be hosted at the Flinders Bedford Park campus, where the eucalypts sway and Gulf St Vincent glistens in the distance, connected to the Adelaide CBD by direct and frequent public transport. The InASA conference is hosted by Assemblage Centre for Creative Practice Research, Flinders University’s research centre for artistic enquiry and art creation. The Centre aims to support research that empowers Australians to live better lives; lives enriched by art and culture and marked by creative care of each other and our environment. Its core membership is drawn from the Creative and Performing Arts discipline cluster, the nucleus of creativity and creative thinking at Flinders. Submissions
Abstracts of between 200 and 300 words, plus a short bio of 100 words, should be submitted via email to assemblage at flinders.edu.au by Monday 17 August 2026. Alongside traditional written abstracts, we welcome proposals in alternative forms to support your access preference, e.g. voice notes or videos of up to 90 seconds.

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1 PhD Position (50%, 3 years) at the University of Koblenz (GER) at the Institute für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 📢 📅 Application deadline: 15 September 2026 www.uni-koblenz.de/de/karriere/...

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📢 Call for Contributions - Anglophone Literatures and Postcolonial Medical Humanities 📚 300 word abstracts to be submitted by 9 September 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #medicalhumanities #postcolonialstudies

Scholars working on projects at the interface of postcolonial studies, medical or health humanities and Anglophone literature are cordially invited to send a proposal for the special issue/edited volume to Christina Slopek-Hauff.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
• dis/ability, health and illness in colonial, postcolonial, neocolonial or decolonial contexts (Barker 2011; Falola and Hamel 2021)
• bodies and minds beside the norm (de Muijnck et al. 2025)
• notions of health in global contexts (forced mobility, precarious lives, ecocide, ...) and the construction of global grids in health discourses (Mills 2014; Titchkosky and Aubrecht 2015)
• diversification of ‘human’, ‘subject’, ‘citizen’, ‘patient’, ‘mind’ and ‘body’ in contexts of health and non-health (Fernando 2017)
• impact of colonial legacies and neocolonial structures on health and wellbeing (Krentz 2022)
• postcolonial trauma and its literary representation (Craps 2012)
• health discourses (Metzl 2010) and diverse forms of embodiment (Siebers 2008)
• postcolonial bibliotherapy
Please send a brief abstract (300 words) as well as a short bio note (up to 250 words) to christina.slopekhauff at tu-dortmund.de. The deadline for abstracts is September 9, 2026.

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📢 Call for Papers for "Narrating Eventness: Economy, Ecology, and the Critical Power of Imagining" 📍Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 🗓️11–13 May 2027 ⚠️Abstract deadline: 15 September 2026

The conference “Narrating Eventness: Economy, Ecology, and the Critical Power of Imagining” will investigate how critical events emerge, are imagined and represented in order to understand the nature, scope, and scale of environmental and economic changes. By bringing together the literarily- and historically-minded, this conference aims to interrogate what links and what distinguishes narrations of economic and ecological events in and between these two disciplines.

We invite papers pursuing the following questions: How is the “eventness” of environmental or economic disruption constituted from historical and literary perspectives? In which ways are the consequences of events imagined in modern times, and what is the relationship between the social practice of narration and its material, economic, and political context? How do different narrative concepts (e.g., crisis, catastrophe, accident, incident) shape the possibilities we imagine? What role do populism, fake news, deep fakes and artificial intelligence play in reverberations of historical events? In the light of environmental catastrophes and economic disorder, do we have to rethink human story-telling capacities and include more-than-human
actors? How do human and more-than-human narrations interact, contradict, combine? And might there be room for a definition of “disruptive eventness” as non-change, as a form of perverse stability when the world seems to shout for radical reform? What impact do Indigenous knowledges have as well as other concepts which decenter Western epistemological concepts of crisis?

Please send a proposed title, an abstract of 500 words, and a short CV to Nina Huwer (nina.huwer at uni-jena.de) by 15.9.2026.

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10 PhD Positions at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) (GER) on the DFG Research Training Group “Practicing Place - Sociocultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations"" 📢 📅 Application deadline: 30 September 2026 stellen.ku.de/jobposting/e...

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 Call for Contributions and Online Symposium for "MATATU at Forty – Doing African Literary and Cultural Studies" 📍Online symposium 🗓️26 November 2026 ⚠️Abstract deadline: 30 September 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 Call for Papers "LIFE at its Limits: Medicine, Literature, Philosophy" 📍Conference at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 🗓️10–12 December 2026 ⚠️Proposal deadline: 4 September 2026 www.btk.elte.hu/en/life-at-i...

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LIFE at its Limits: Medicine, Literature, Philosophy

International conference organized by the ELTE Department of English Studies.

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📢 Call for Participation "Un/Common Place(s)" 📍International Conference: Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany 🗓️10–12 February 2027 ⚠️Proposal deadline: 15 June 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢 Call for Papers to the Postcolonial Narrations ECR conference! Postcolonial Unearthings: Bodies of Memory and Narrative Resurrections: 📍LMU Munich, Germany 🗓️16-17 September 2026 ⚠️Abstracts by 1 June 2026 postcolonial-narrations.net/current_conf...

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Current Conference – Postcolonial Narrations

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives, by Michelle Stork link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

1 Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück (GER) at the School of Language and Literary Studies, start ASAP 📢 📅 Application deadline: 27 May 2026 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

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56 FB 7 JP mit TT (W2) Assistant Professor (m/f/d) in American Literary and Cultural Studies: Uni Osnabrück

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We are still looking for possible ombudspersons for GAPS. Candidates of all career levels are welcome! You would work in a team to help GAPS become a safer space. 📢 Call for (Self-)Nominations: Ombuds Group STILL OPEN! Alternatively you can nominate someone else for the role.

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions, edited by Silvia Anastasijevic, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler (Bloomsbury) has won the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Edited Collection Prize, for works published in 2024.

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

📢 Call for Contributions for Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents "Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World" 📍Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid 🗓️11–12 March 2027 ⚠️Submission deadline: 1 June 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

📢 Call for (Self-)Nominations: Ombuds Group Deadline: 15 April If you are interested in becoming an ombudsperson for GAPS (or in nominating someone else), information is available on the gaps website! g-a-p-s.net/news/

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news – GAPS – Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📢 Call for Contributions and Online Symposium for "Ecologies of Kinship" 📍Online symposium: Zoom link in next newsletter 🗓️8–9 October 2026 ⚠️Proposal deadline: 15 May 2026

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🎓 GAPS 2026 “Postcolonial Transfers: Translation, Transition, Transformation” Osnabrück University, Germany, 14-16 May 2026 Organizers: Lucy Gasser and Laura Zander Registration now open! Early Bird Registration closes 29 March 2026. All registration closes 15 April 2026. gaps2026.g-a-p-s.net

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GAPS conference 2026 – Website of the GAPS conference 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

📢 Call for Papers for "Postcolonial Internet Studies" 📍Haus der Universität, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany 🗓️8–9 October 2026 ⚠️Submission deadline: 15 June 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📢 Call for Papers for "Laughter Around the World: Thinking the Political Through Humour" 📍University of Bonn, Germany 🗓️2-3 December 2026 ⚠️Submission deadline: 31 March 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: New Publication Alert: Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures Edited by Judith Neder and Eva-Maria Windberger link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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[re]frame @reframe-academia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Reminder: our open call is still open 📣 We’re looking for critical essays & book reviews on empire and power in literary and cultural studies. If you’ve been drafting, revising, or hesitating — send it in. 📩 Details & submission info: reframe-academia.com/open-call/

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Open Call – [re]frame

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[re]frame @reframe-academia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Our first essay is live. ✨ We begin with a queer reading of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue that exposes Japanese imperial power as heteronormative and unstable. reframe-academia.com/taiwan-trave... [re]frame is officially taking shape 📚 — more essays to come.

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Queering the Colony: Tracing and Resisting Japanese Imperial History in Taiwan Travelogue – [re]frame

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: The Violence of Everyday Struggles by Çiçek Tanlı Autschbach anthempress.com/books/the-vi...

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Reading Nature and Cultures Edited by Julia Sander, Anke Vogel, and Wolfgang Jäger www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literature and Cultures Anglophone Postcolonial Studies 3. Edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Frank Schulze-Engler, Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

📢 Call for Papers for Asian Sound Cultures 3: "Art Meets Science, Performance Meets Technology" 📍Tohoku University, Japan 🗓️1–3 September 2026 ⚠️Abstract deadline: 13 February 2026 forms.gle/xaUQQ4eTpmAd...

Annual Conference 2026 – DFG Research Training Group 2571 "Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders"

📢 Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the Research Group Empires: "Responding to Empire" 📍University of Freiburg, Germany 🗓️11–13 November 2026 ⚠️Abstract deadline: 13 March 2026 uni-freiburg.de/empires/annu...

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

📢 Call for Applications to Summer Academy: "North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present" Application deadline: 15 February 2026 📍Bavarian American Academy, Tutzing, Germany 🗓️1–8 June 2026

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📢Reminder: Call for Nominations: GAPS Graduate Award 2025 Remember, self-nominations are also possible💪🔍🤓 g-a-p-s.net/2253-2/

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Graduate Award Information – GAPS – Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

📢 Call for Submissions - Postcolonial Medical and Health Humanities: South Asian Literary Imaginaries and Epistemologies 📚 250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 1 April 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #southasianliterature #medicalhumanities #postcolonialstudies

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚 250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives Edited by Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📢 Call for Submissions - Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page 📚 500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies" Submission deadline: 8 December 2025 📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany 🗓️13 March 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives" Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025 📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema" Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025 📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France 🗓️29 June–02 July 2026

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨 "Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation" 14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany ⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📢 Call for Applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies 📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨 Job Alert at University of Bonn! 🚨 3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies 100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years Start date: 1 April 2026 ⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚 350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026 #literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

📢 Call for Special Issues - Global South Literary Studies📚 New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues! Topics may include • Decolonial studies • Indigenous epistemologies • Queer theory approaches • Environmental humanities/ecocriticism www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...

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Learn about Global South Literary Studies

Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️ Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️ ➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️ Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New ECR-led academic space [re]frame is now online. Check out their website for more details, including the inaugural call for submissions! reframe-academia.com/open-call/

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Open Call – [re]frame

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📢 Call for Papers "Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies" Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025 📍University of Turin, Italy 🗓️25-29 May 2026 More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...

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EACLALS Conference 2026

Corep organizza master universitari e si occupa di alta formazione, innovazione e ricerca a Torino

GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📚 CfP Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods 📅 2-3 July 2026 📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)