Postcolonial and Decolonial studies permanent section MMLA 2025
Milwaukee, wI
Organization: Midwest Modern Language Association
MMLA 2025 Milwaukee, WI
Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies permanent section
Deadline for submission: March 31st
The Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives."
We are looking for papers that respond to the conference's theme from the perspective of postcolonial and/or decolonial studies.
From the conference’s website,
As the country generally and the academy specifically head into an uncertain future, hope can be found in the Humanities. This assertion may seem especially quixotic considering both capitalist and cultural pressure in the United States to privilege the “usefulness” of any object, phenomena, or even person that is measurable in some kind of way, often monetarily. The effects of this utilitarianism on higher education have been manifold, such as reducing college degrees to passports to the working world and the vocations therein.
The panel welcomes approaches that highlight the human element of the humanities. This includes seeking to understand the space humans occupy in this ever-changing world as we see the push for technologies that may supplant human labor. We are also open to papers that look into the intersection of the humanities, culture, and the economy.
Please do not feel limited by the above questions and topics, the section welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to all topics that intersect the conference’s theme and postcolonial or decolonial studies. For consideration, please send a 200 to 300 word abstract to?Jose Intriago Suarez at? jose.intriagosuarez@marquette.edu?no later than?March 31st for full consideration.
This year’s conference will be hosted by Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI on November 14 through the 16, 2025. For more information see the conference’s website: https://www.midwest-mla.org/convention
jose.intriagosuarez@marquette.edu
Jose Antonio Intriago Suarez
