The University of Leeds is hosting an international three-day conference on world literature and its connections to cosmopolitanism, memory studies, and many other aspects of capitalist modernity including refugee crises, neo-fascisms and environmental disaster. Possible paper topics include:
- Economic crisis
- World-ecology
- Combined and uneven development
- Postcolonialism and decolonial struggles
- Animal studies
- Biopolitics/ necropolitics
- Posthumanism
- Islamophobia
- Settler colonialism
- Indigenous studies
- Literary sociology (e.g., print culture, book market, UNESCO)
- Manifestos
- Petro-culture
Click here to view their full cfp, or here to visit their conference page.
The conference is scheduled to take place June 20th-22nd, 2018, but the deadline for abstract submissions is coming up very soon – January 15th!