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GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien).

https://g-a-p-s.net/

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🌍📚 New Publication Alert: The Violence of Everyday Struggles by Çiçek Tanlı Autschbach

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February 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Reading Nature and Cultures

Edited by Julia Sander, Anke Vogel, and Wolfgang Jäger

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
February 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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🌍📚 New Publication Alert:
Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literature and Cultures

Anglophone Postcolonial Studies 3.

Edited by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Frank Schulze-Engler, Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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📢 Call for Papers for Asian Sound Cultures 3: "Art Meets Science, Performance Meets Technology"

📍Tohoku University, Japan

🗓️1–3 September 2026
⚠️Abstract deadline: 13 February 2026

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January 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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📢 Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the Research Group Empires: "Responding to Empire"

📍University of Freiburg, Germany

🗓️11–13 November 2026
⚠️Abstract deadline: 13 March 2026

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Annual Conference 2026 – DFG Research Training Group 2571 "Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders"
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January 14, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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📢 Call for Applications to Summer Academy: "North American Narratives of Crisis and Repair, Past and Present"

Application deadline: 15 February 2026

📍Bavarian American Academy, Tutzing, Germany

🗓️1–8 June 2026
January 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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📢Reminder: Call for Nominations: GAPS Graduate Award 2025

Remember, self-nominations are also possible💪🔍🤓

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Graduate Award Information – GAPS – Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies
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January 4, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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📢 Call for Submissions - Postcolonial Medical and Health Humanities: South Asian Literary Imaginaries and Epistemologies 📚

250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 1 April 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #southasianliterature #medicalhumanities #postcolonialstudies
December 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚

250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives

Edited by Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler

heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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📢 Call for Submissions - Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page 📚

500 word abstracts and 100 word bio to be submitted by 15 February 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies"

Submission deadline: 8 December 2025

📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany

🗓️13 March 2026
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025

📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France

🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨

"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"

14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany

⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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📢 Call for Applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

📅 Application deadline: 10 January 2026

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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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...
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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📢 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
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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📢 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...
Learn about Global South Literary Studies
Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
www.tandfonline.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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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
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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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/
Open Call – [re]frame
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August 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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📢 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...
EACLALS Conference 2026
Corep organizza master universitari e si occupa di alta formazione, innovazione e ricerca a Torino
corep.it
August 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods

📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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
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
June 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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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
Felipe Espinoza Garrido in front of his presentation Caitlin Vandertop in front of her presentation Annabell Fender in front of her presentation
May 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM