NeMLA 2026 Roundtable: World Literature and Cultural Globalization
Due Date: 09-10-2025
At the core, this virtual panel aims to investigate how writers, translators, scholars, and filmmakers from the Global South, diasporic communities, or conflict zones negotiate transnational identities, postcolonial legacies, (post)pandemic realities, cultural hybridity, and global circuits of meaning and production through diverse literary forms to depict marginalized voices and foster transnational dialogue. How do they employ language, form, and genre to critique globalization’s homogenizing effects? And how can creative practice itself be a space for cultural resistance or cosmopolitan imagination?
This session invites proposals from scholars, educators, critics, and creative professionals—including writers, poets, and filmmakers—who envision literature and film as part of a global dialogue across various fields such as world literature, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, film studies, cultural studies, and translation studies, among others.
We encourage submissions from underrepresented regions or in less commonly taught languages to explore the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of world literature in the age of cultural globalization.
Please submit a 250–300-word abstract/proposal, a brief academic and/or creative bio, and any A/V requests by 10 September 2025, through the NeMLA abstract submission portal.