🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨
"Postcolonial Bodies"
6–8 May 2027, University of Koblenz, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 31 December 2026
![commodifica<on of the body through enslavement, sexual exploita<on, and other forms and contexts of
(labour) exploita<on
• body performance and/in (e.g. social) media and on stage/screen
• body prac<ces (e.g., sports, fashion / dress codes / clothing), discipline and resistance
• bodies, im/mobility, migra<on, travel, borders, prac<ces of in/exclusion
• violence and discrimina<on
• vulnerability, medicine and health discourses (e.g., fear of disease and contagion, discourses of hygiene,
appropria<on of Indigenous medical knowledges, unequal access to medical care)
• the dead body
• colonised bodies on display (e.g., human zoos, human remains in museums)
• posthumanism, transhumanism (human bodies, alien bodies, more-than-human bodies, ar<ficial bodies,
etc.)
• concepts and genres such as the Gothic, the Sen<mental, (Body) Horror and the like, in which the body
plays a central role (likewise figures and images of the undead, the zombie or the invasion of the body)
• the (material) body of postcolonial texts, archives, and corpora (which texts and documents are collected
and made accessible? how and why?)
• developing and promo<ng teaching prac<ces in schools and academia that foster a cri<cal postcolonial
awareness of body discourses and prac<ces
You are welcome to submit abstracts (250–300 words) for individual papers (20 minutes), including a short bio
note, to gaps2027@uni-koblenz.de] by 31 December 2026. Panel proposals are also welcome; they should include
a brief descrip<on of the panel and a 250–300 word abstract and bio note for each paper. All presenters must be
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