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Anyone who would like to organize a seminar for our 2025 Annual Meeting (held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025) must first post a call for papers here. Calls for papers will be accepted through September 9, 2024.

Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

Organizer: Anchit Sathi

Public humanities represent a branch of the humanities that emphasises public engagement, striving to render specialised knowledge accessible to a broader audience. Recent scholarly interest in this... more

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min C Rodan

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film" This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine... more

Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Anglophone Literatures

Organizer: Nida Sajid

This seminar offers an invitation to the scholars and academicians over the nascent thematic, theoretical and historical interventions in the 'interstitial' space of memory studies and South Asian... more

Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizer: Shirl Yang

We invite papers that explore complicity as a critical methodology for literary and cultural studies. In an age of globalization, hyper-commodification, continued expropriation of labor and resources... more

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron

Children have long been associated with futurity -- be it as future promise, as caveats from the future or as our responsibility to the future. Illustrative examples of "children as the future" are... more

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew

This seminar convenes scholars working in philosophy and literature, broadly construed. It harnesses the frisson between global modernist literature and global philosophies of mind. Seemingly remote... more

“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizer: Timothy Wyman-McCarthy

Genres, John Frow explains, “generate and shape knowledge of the world; and…generically shaped knowledges are bound up with the exercise of power” (2014: 2). Taking its cue from recent work by David... more

Work

Organizer: Alya Ansari

“Work” is a keyword of contemporary fiction and theory alike. Over the past several decades, as the deepening contradictions of neoliberal capitalism have dovetailed with acute financial crises, the... more

Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizer: Jean Amato

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words and a bio of up to 250 words to jean_amato@fitnyc.edu by October 14, 2024. We welcome papers that reflect on the diverse, layered, and fluid representations... more

Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura

Interactive storytelling has become a cornerstone of modern narrative forms, reshaping the processes by which stories are crafted and experienced. Drawing upon the discussions and insights from last... more

Beyond Playground Conditions: Literary Visions of Liberal Thought

Organizer: Ken Seigneurie

The symbiosis between literature and the development of liberal thought (Anderson, Gagnier, Harol and Simpson, Hunt, Mangrum) impels us to ask: What light can literature shed on the contemporary... more