The Colloquium Committee of York University’s English Graduate Students’ Association (EGSA) is now accepting abstract submissions for our annual conference. This year’s conference, “Just Representations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Justice in World Literature,” will take place May 4-5, 2018. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics relating to the idea of justice in/and world literature. Possible paper topics include (but are not limited to):
- Fictional representations of international criminal courts
- Issues of justice in world literature
- Environmental justice/ecocriticism
- Fascism and eco-fascism
- Right-wing populism
- Representing/representations of the Holocaust
- Israel/Palestine Studies
- Voices of survivors of cultural genocide
- Memory and poetics
- Post-Apartheid drama and literature in South Africa
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Canadian context
- The case for and problematics of reparations
- Indigenous resurgence, resistance, restitution
- Diasporic literature
- Refugee experiences
- Critical Race Studies
- Decolonial love
Please submit a 250-word abstract for a 15-20 minute presentation, along with a short biographical statement, to justrepresentations2018@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 4, 2018. Click here to see our complete cfp.
As a complement to the colloquium, the theme of the 2019 issue of EGSA’s academic journal, Pivot, will also be “Just Representations.” The journal invites submissions for publication from colloquium participants.