Calls for Submission

Both science fiction and postcolonial theory are concerned with troubling normative understandings of movement, diaspora, and hybridity. Indeed, “The Stranger in the Strange Land” is an oppositional trope that is at the heart of both science fiction and historical colonial encounters. The other-worldliness and futurity of science fiction has offered numerous writers an effective (and […]

The University of Minnesota’s April 2016 Symposium on Fashion and the Body is assembling a panel on the subject of “Teaching Fashion and the Body in the University Classroom.” This session will focus on the ways in which instructors craft units, exercises, and assignments which enable students to critically reflect on the intersections between the

Video games are today depicted as an evident leisure activity. Yet, the legitimization of this hobby has undertaken a chaotic track. Playing video games has, in fact, transformed from a marginal and isolated activity to a global and mainstream pastime. A few countries have sparked national surveys about video gaming and its role in their

The South in the North conference will be held in Boston from March 10‐12, 2016. Some broad issues the conference hopes to explore under the rubric of “The South in the North” include: regional fantasies and national imaginary continental, Caribbean, hemispheric, transatlantic and global Norths and Souths southern and post-southern imaginaries SSSL’s meeting in Boston