The 118th Annual Conference of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada between Thursday, November 11 and Sunday, November 14, 2021 at the Sahara Las Vegas Hotel and Virtually (Online). The Asian Literature and Culture session welcomes proposals on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Asian literature and culture, with particular consideration granted to papers that engage with the conference theme of “City of God, City of Destruction.” Other topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
- Asian urbanities
- cyberpunk
- ecocriticism
- geopolitics of storytelling
- memory, trauma, nostalgia
- place-making and identity (re)formation
- spaces of encounter
- urbanization, migration, and displacement
- utopias and dystopias
- new readings of classical literature
Submissions may be made at the following URL by April 15: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18212
For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.pamla.org/pamla2021/
Ying Bao