EVENT Nov 20
ABSTRACT May 15
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Fantasy & the Fantastic Session (Standing Session, In-Person) (PAMLA 2025 Conference)

San Francisco, CA
Organization: Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Event: PAMLA 2025 Conference
Categories: Postcolonial, American, Hispanic & Latino, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, French, British, Genre & Form, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Adventure & Travel Writing, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Narratology, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-11-20 to 2025-11-23 Abstract Due: 2025-05-15

Fantasy and the supernatural, broadly defined, shape many of the most popular contemporary narratives and universes—from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones, from World of Warcraft to The Witcher, from classical and medieval tales of monsters and dragons to the worlds of N.K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Tracy Deonn, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As a genre, fantasy engages with questions of rhetoric, identity, and power in multiple ways, across multiple media, subgenres, and cultural traditions; the enchantment of fantastic and supernatural narratives has cast a persistent and global spell. For this session, we welcome proposals related to the PAMLA 2025 conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," as well as proposals not related to the theme, which explore any aspect of the fantastic.

kristinlnoone@gmail.com

Kristin Noone