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📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025

📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain

🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026

📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025

📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France

🗓️29 June–02 July 2026

🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨

"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"

14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany

⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026

📢 Call for Applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026

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🚨 Job Alert at University of Bonn! 🚨

3 Postdoctoral Position at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years
Start date: 1 April 2026

⏰ Application Deadline: 15 November 2025

www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚

350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies

Learn about Global South Literary Studies Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

📢 Call for Special Issues - Global South Literary Studies📚

New Taylor&Francis/Routledge journal is calling for special issues!

Topics may include
• Decolonial studies
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Queer theory approaches
• Environmental humanities/ecocriticism

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...

Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️

Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️

➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET

Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative

New ECR-led academic space [re]frame is now online. Check out their website for more details, including the inaugural call for submissions! reframe-academia.com/open-call/

📢 Call for Papers "Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies"
Abstract deadline: 15 September 2025

📍University of Turin, Italy

🗓️25-29 May 2026

More info: corep.it/eaclals-conf...

📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods

📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Thank you to @libraryaac.bsky.social for highlighting our annual conference! We truly appreciate your support. Looking forward to staying connected and sharing more in the future!

Uhuru Portia Phalafala holding her book "Mine Mine Mine", in the process of reading from it. The background shows an enlarged picture of her book cover

Yesterday's @gapsnet.bsky.social #PostcolonialStudies conference ended with a most moving, artfully delivered #poetry reading by #SouthAfricanPoet & scholar Uhuru Portia Phalafala from her epic poem "Mine Mine Mine" on the intergenerational trauma of miners & their families

#BlackStudies

Felipe Espinoza Garrido in front of his presentation

Caitlin Vandertop in front of her presentation

Annabell Fender in front of her presentation

It's the final day of @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference and the day started on a high note with 3 great papers on plantation capitalism by @espinoza.bsky.social on the #Plantationocene & Caitlin Vandertop on the Oceanic novel & Annabell Fender on the Italian honeybee as worker/prisoner in #Australia

Cherise Fung on video conference with her presentation Reading Silence

Tola Ositelu in front of her presentation showing the 3 memoirs she analysed

Dorit Neumann in front of her presentation

The 3 speakers during the Q and A session

Another great panel at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"

#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies

Alexander Rüter in front of his presentation

Nora Pleßke in front of her presentation

Harald Pittel in front of his presentation

In the panel " #CulturalStudies Approaches to Neoliberal Capitalism" @gapsnet.bsky.social Alexander Rüter spoke abt startup mentality & Neal Stephenson's "Termination Shock", Nora Pleßke read Beukes' "Zoo City" w Orwell and Harald Pittel talked about #IndianCinema #Bollywood & cinema halls in crisis

Corina Wieser-Cox in front of their presentation slides

Michael Boog in front of his presentation slides

Wang Yuen Ho in front of his presentation slides

One of the panels at @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference approaches "Capitalist Realism & Beyond": @cwiesercox.bsky.social speaks on healing monstrous #motherhood in Castro's "Haunting of Alejandra", Michael Boog on irrealism in Unnikrishnan's "Temporary People" & Wang Yuen Ho on Wong's "Unfree Speech"

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Ellen Grünkemeier in front of the video screen of keynote speaker Nivedita Majumdar

Yesterday was day 1 of this year's @gapsnet.bsky.social #conference on "Neoliberal Global Capitalism", hosted by Gigi Adair & Ellen Grünkemeier of Bielefeld University. It started with a thought-provoking keynote by Nivedita Majumdar, questioning the relation of #PostcolonialStudies & #Marxism

Conference: “BrAIve New Worlds?! Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" Exploring Literature in the Age of AI

For more info and to register for the event, please visit: zentrum-kulturwissenschaften.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...

🤖 📚 BrAIve New Worlds?! Literature in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Concepts, Genres, and Model Interpretations (Conference)

📅 19-21 June 2025
📍 University of Graz (Austria)

🎤 Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA): Communicating with Aliens: Large Language Models as Writer/Reader/Critic

Early-career scholars are strongly encouraged to apply!

For more info visit: archivdigital.info (link also in bio).

📢 Call for Special Issues - Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 📚

The world’s oldest journal on modern philology is now accepting proposals for thematic clusters/special issues to be published in 2026 & 2027 in English Literature!

🗓️ Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2025

The full job ad can be found on our website (link in profile).

🚨 Job Alert at University of Potsdam! 🚨

1 PhD Position in Gender & Queer Studies

Contract: 3-year, 50% part-time, TV-L 13
Start date: as soon as possible

Department of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam (GER)

⏰ Application Deadline: 17th June 2025

More info and the full job ad can be found on our website: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/

🎓 📣 Job Alert!

1 wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (75%, TV-L 13)

📍 University of Bielefeld (GER)

📚 Lehrprojekt “Bielefeld Postkolonial”

Start: as soon as possible
End: 31 March 2027 (fixed-term contract)

🔔 Application deadline: 29 May 2025

Schwarze deutsche Literatur Schwarze Literatur als Teil der deutschen Kultur – Geschichte, Ästhetiken und gesellschaftliche Einflüsse seit den 1980er Jahren.

Mein Sammelband ist nun erschienen 🩵💜

Ich hoffe, der Band wird viel gelesen und Gespräche über Schwarze deutsche Literatur finden zukünftig auch noch mehr an den Unis statt.

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More information on our "Violence Demands Translation" series can be found here: g-a-p-s.net/gaps-impulse...

🎓 Online Guest Lecture: “Decolonization Is Not Enough: On the Geopolitics of Settler Colonialism”

📅 16 May 2025, 5-7 PM (CEST)

Speaker: Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico

The Zoom link will be distributed in due time. This is a members-only event.

📢 JOB KLAXON 📢 Come work with me: I am advertising a PhD position in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (50%, for 3 years initially, starting date: September 2025) - please share widely! www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...