Call for Papers

This symposium is interested in the following questions:

• How creative works—poetry, prose, hybrid genres, digital storytelling, film, etc.—respond to modern crises in the face of political and social upheaval?


• How has precarity defined current social conditions and how does it impact the notion of precarious time?


• How do different modalities of resistance, translations and decolonial movements create paths towards alternative futurities?


• How do subjects within border spaces experience the rapidly shifting world in the socio-political economic and climatic realms?


• How can innovative approaches to teaching challenge institutional structures and integrate social justice, digital literacy, decolonial methodologies, and queer-inclusive perspectives?


• How has the post Covid world transformed human-non human relations?


• How do literature and the arts engage our transformations of ‘self,’ its connection to nature?


• How do border spaces represent unique ways of solidarities while traversing marginal spaces?


• How can linguistic diversity serve as a tool of resistance against normative structures?


• How can literary narratives allow us to rethink inequities of globalization and reconfigure ‘planetary transformations’ with alternative possibilities?


• How can we rethink the categories of connections and disconnections towards forming structures of well-being in the age of ‘hyper-connectivity’?