PAMLA 2025 Asian Literatures and Cultures Session Call for Papers
The 122nd annual PAMLA (Pacific Ancient Modern Language) Conference will take place in San Francisco on November 20-23, 2025. Please find information about the conference here: https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/
The Asian Literatures and Cultures session welcomes proposals for papers on a wide variety of topics pertaining to “Asia” and “literature and culture,” broadly conceived. Papers may deal with a range of historical periods (premodern, modern, etc.) and regions (East, Southeast, South, West, Central, etc.). “Literature and culture” can include literature, but also media such as film, theater, and art.
We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” and those not related. Additionally, papers that analyze issues of power and ideology from multiple theoretical perspectives. Other topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
- Asian urbanities
- Translations and relations between various Asian nations or cultures
- Asian cyberpunk and science fiction
- Asian ecocriticism
- Geopolitics of storytelling
- Memory, trauma, nostalgia
- Place-making and identity (re)formation
- Spaces of encounter
- Urbanization, migration, and displacementUtopias and dystopias
- New readings of classical literature
Please Submit your Abstract Proposal here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19563
If you have any questions, please contact the Session Chair Géraldine Fiss at gfiss@ucsd.edu.