Cultural History / Studies

This panel examines portrayals of lesser-known and unconventional witches and how their quiet unconventionality, even within the broader occult subculture, might inform scholarship, practice, and preservation.

Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, and Aesthetics

Experiencing War Memorials:  Place, Feeling, and Public Memory

February 23-25, 2023

06 | Sara Liao and Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao
Date: 22 June 2022 (Wed)
Time: 6:00 p.m. IST India / 8:30 p.m. GMT+8 Hong Kong

How do young women understand and experience intimacy in the age of social media? Are their experiences qualitatively different after the millennial turn and the rapid expansion of digital technologies? What impact do these digital experiences and understanding of intimacy have on how millennial subjects experience, understand, and negotiate social relations in globalizing Asia?  

Call for Contributions

Migrant Workers, Cultural (Re)Production, and the Culture Industry in South Asia

54^th Annual Northeast MLA 2023 Conference March 23-26, 2023

Niagara Falls, NY, hosted by U of Buffalo

We invite contributions for the upcoming conference 'Representing Automobility in Literature and Film', which will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt and is organised by my colleague Melanie Schneider and me. The deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2022.

Resilience is the ability of human mind and/or body to respond to adverse circumstances, tragedy, trauma, or any other intimidation to emotional and/or physical integrity and its impacts. It is an individual’s retort to any encroachment on one’s self, and establish self- legitimacy in a hostile environment. But is this power of resilience displayed with homogeneity or heterogeneity among and/or across culturally diverse and rich groups? As a context and culture specific response, resilience is demonstrated in negotiation with factors, such as spatial, socio-cultural and political.

The 2022 Midwest ACIS Regional Conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on October 6-8. This year’s conference will forego a traditional theme; instead participants will be encouraged to identify recurring themes and new directions that will undoubtedly emerge from the works presented at the conference. Thus, innovative papers that transgress traditional themes, narratives, and siloed disciplines are encouraged.

The 2022 McBride Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Cian McMahon of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.