📢 Call for Participation "Un/Common Place(s)" 📍International Conference: Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany 🗓️10–12 February 2027 ⚠️Proposal deadline: 15 June 2026

📢 Call for Papers to the Postcolonial Narrations ECR conference! Postcolonial Unearthings: Bodies of Memory and Narrative Resurrections: 📍LMU Munich, Germany 🗓️16-17 September 2026 ⚠️Abstracts by 1 June 2026 postcolonial-narrations.net/current_conf...

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives, by Michelle Stork link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

1 Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück (GER) at the School of Language and Literary Studies, start ASAP 📢 📅 Application deadline: 27 May 2026 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/universit...

We are still looking for possible ombudspersons for GAPS. Candidates of all career levels are welcome! You would work in a team to help GAPS become a safer space. 📢 Call for (Self-)Nominations: Ombuds Group STILL OPEN! Alternatively you can nominate someone else for the role.

The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions, edited by Silvia Anastasijevic, Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler (Bloomsbury) has won the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Edited Collection Prize, for works published in 2024.

📢 Call for Contributions for Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents "Seeds of Empire, Roots of Change: Botany and the Atlantic World" 📍Saint Louis University Campus, Madrid 🗓️11–12 March 2027 ⚠️Submission deadline: 1 June 2026

📢 Call for (Self-)Nominations: Ombuds Group Deadline: 15 April If you are interested in becoming an ombudsperson for GAPS (or in nominating someone else), information is available on the gaps website! g-a-p-s.net/news/

📢 Call for Contributions and Online Symposium for "Ecologies of Kinship" 📍Online symposium: Zoom link in next newsletter 🗓️8–9 October 2026 ⚠️Proposal deadline: 15 May 2026

🎓 GAPS 2026 “Postcolonial Transfers: Translation, Transition, Transformation” Osnabrück University, Germany, 14-16 May 2026 Organizers: Lucy Gasser and Laura Zander Registration now open! Early Bird Registration closes 29 March 2026. All registration closes 15 April 2026. gaps2026.g-a-p-s.net

📢 Call for Papers for "Postcolonial Internet Studies" 📍Haus der Universität, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany 🗓️8–9 October 2026 ⚠️Submission deadline: 15 June 2026

📢 Call for Papers for "Laughter Around the World: Thinking the Political Through Humour" 📍University of Bonn, Germany 🗓️2-3 December 2026 ⚠️Submission deadline: 31 March 2026

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: New Publication Alert: Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures Edited by Judith Neder and Eva-Maria Windberger link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Reminder: our open call is still open 📣 We’re looking for critical essays & book reviews on empire and power in literary and cultural studies. If you’ve been drafting, revising, or hesitating — send it in. 📩 Details & submission info: reframe-academia.com/open-call/

Our first essay is live. ✨ We begin with a queer reading of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue that exposes Japanese imperial power as heteronormative and unstable. reframe-academia.com/taiwan-trave... [re]frame is officially taking shape 📚 — more essays to come.

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: The Violence of Everyday Struggles by Çiçek Tanlı Autschbach anthempress.com/books/the-vi...

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Reading Nature and Cultures Edited by Julia Sander, Anke Vogel, and Wolfgang Jäger www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

🌍📚 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...

📢 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 forms.gle/xaUQQ4eTpmAd...

📢 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 uni-freiburg.de/empires/annu...

📢 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

📢Reminder: Call for Nominations: GAPS Graduate Award 2025 Remember, self-nominations are also possible💪🔍🤓 g-a-p-s.net/2253-2/

📢 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

📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚 250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026 #literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction

🌍📚 New Publication Alert: Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives Edited by Anton Kirchhofer and Karsten Levihn-Kutzler heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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 www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

🚨 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

📢 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)

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

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

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

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

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"

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

🤖 📚 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

📢 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

🚨 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

🎓 📣 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

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...

🎓 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.