GAPS

📢 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.

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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...

✨new summer who dis✨

no seriously; going to bring in new voices and new reads into our postcolonial environmental humanities working group.

interested? write to me
or send it to your dearest nerdy friend and ask them to join us

(g-a-p-s.net/reading-grou...)

(thanks to @gapsnet.bsky.social)

For more info, check the website: postcolonial-narrations.net/current_conf...

📢 Call for Papers: Postcolonial Narrations Conference 2025

"Inner Circles: Kinship, Inclusion, and Inaccessibility", is co-hosted by LMU Munich and University of Oxford.

📅 23 – 24 September 2025
📍 St. Hilda’s, University of Oxford (UK)

📝 Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025

Applications can be submitted at any time.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the GAPS president or any board member or visit our website:
g-a-p-s.net/project-fund/

📢 Call for Applications: GAPS Project Fund! 🎓

GAPS offers up to €2,000 annually to support academic events in the field of postcolonial studies!
Whether it's workshops, conferences, summer schools, or similar events – this funding is open to all non-tenured GAPS members.

#GAPS #GAPSfunding

You can find the full job ad on our website: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/

🎓Job Alert! Lecturer

📍 Institute of British and American Studies, University of Konstanz (GER)

50%, TV-L 13, 8 SWS, focus on English didactics!

📅Deadline: 15 April 2025
Apply now!

#jobalert #englishstudies #teachingopportunities #careerinacademia #universityjobs #universityofkonstanz

Find the full job ad here: uol.de/job/wissensc...

🎓 Job Alert: PhD Position in Postcolonial Studies 📚

📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER)

65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP

📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025

#PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs