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GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien).
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📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies"
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
📢 Call for Proposals for "Entangled Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Australian Studies"
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
Submission deadline: 8 December 2025
📍Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPST), University of Cologne, Germany
🗓️13 March 2026
📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📢 Call for Seminar Papers: "The Poetics of Affect – Literary Perspectives"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Santiago de Compostela, Spain
🗓️31 August – 4 September 2026
📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
📢 Call for Papers "Boko Haram in Nigerian Literature and Cinema"
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
Abstract deadline: 16 November 2025
📍Campus Condorcet-Aubervilliers, France
🗓️29 June–02 July 2026
🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
🚨2026 GAPS Conference announced🚨
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
"Postcolonial Transfers – Translation, Transition, Transformation"
14–16 May 2026, University of Osnabrück, Germany
⏰ Application Deadline: 6 January 2026
📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
📢 Call for Book Chapters - Future Spectralities: Raising Ghosts, Conjuring Black Futurity 📚
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
350-500 word abstracts and bio to be submitted by 11 January 2026
#literarystudies #blackfuturity #englishliterature #literarytheory #culturalstudies
Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
September 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Coffee hour's back! Let’s take a moment check in with each other ☀️
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
Grab a coffee/tea and bring your lunch to chat with other ECR members of GAPS for a bit 🤓☕️
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 8 October 2025, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in the next GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
📚 CfP
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Making Sense of America – Conversations on Matters & Methods
📅 2-3 July 2026
📍 University of Innsbruck (Austria)
🎓 Job Alert: PhD Position in Postcolonial Studies 📚
📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER)
65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP
📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025
#PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs
📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER)
65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP
📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025
#PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs
March 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🎓 Job Alert: PhD Position in Postcolonial Studies 📚
📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER)
65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP
📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025
#PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs
📍 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg (GER)
65%, TV-L 13, starting 1 August 2025 or ASAP
📅 Deadline: 27 Apr 2025
#PostcolonialStudies #DoctoralCandidate #JobAlert #UniversityOfOldenburg #PhDPosition #AcademicJobs
🌍📚 New Publication
Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability
Edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, and Om Prakash Dwivedi
#Ecocriticism #PlanetaryPrecarity #PostcolonialStudies
Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability
Edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, and Om Prakash Dwivedi
#Ecocriticism #PlanetaryPrecarity #PostcolonialStudies
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🌍📚 New Publication
Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability
Edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, and Om Prakash Dwivedi
#Ecocriticism #PlanetaryPrecarity #PostcolonialStudies
Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability
Edited by Janet M. Wilson, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, and Om Prakash Dwivedi
#Ecocriticism #PlanetaryPrecarity #PostcolonialStudies
We're excited to showcase the latest special issue of Gender Forum—"Queering Postcolonial Worlds"! 🏳️🌈
Edited by Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox
📚✨ Read it now via the link in bio!
#QueerStudies #PostcolonialTheory
Edited by Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox
📚✨ Read it now via the link in bio!
#QueerStudies #PostcolonialTheory
March 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We're excited to showcase the latest special issue of Gender Forum—"Queering Postcolonial Worlds"! 🏳️🌈
Edited by Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox
📚✨ Read it now via the link in bio!
#QueerStudies #PostcolonialTheory
Edited by Rita Maricocchi, Dorit Neumann, Oluwadunni O. Talabi, and Corina Wieser-Cox
📚✨ Read it now via the link in bio!
#QueerStudies #PostcolonialTheory
🎈🥳Join Pavan Kumar Malreddy to celebrate the book launch of his publication “Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” including a symposium with prominent speakers organised by the research initiative ConTrust.
Participation via Zoom possible!
Participation via Zoom possible!
November 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
🎈🥳Join Pavan Kumar Malreddy to celebrate the book launch of his publication “Insurgent Cultures. World Literatures and Violence from the Global South” including a symposium with prominent speakers organised by the research initiative ConTrust.
Participation via Zoom possible!
Participation via Zoom possible!
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Let’s enjoy a moment of quiet together in the middle of the winter term 🍂
Get cozy, bring your favourite beverage and join us for some casual ECR camaraderie 🤓☕️
🗓️Friday, 15 November, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in no. 11/2024 GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative 📨
Let’s enjoy a moment of quiet together in the middle of the winter term 🍂
Get cozy, bring your favourite beverage and join us for some casual ECR camaraderie 🤓☕️
🗓️Friday, 15 November, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in no. 11/2024 GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative 📨
November 8, 2024 at 3:44 PM
➡️ECR Coffee Hour⬅️
Let’s enjoy a moment of quiet together in the middle of the winter term 🍂
Get cozy, bring your favourite beverage and join us for some casual ECR camaraderie 🤓☕️
🗓️Friday, 15 November, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in no. 11/2024 GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative 📨
Let’s enjoy a moment of quiet together in the middle of the winter term 🍂
Get cozy, bring your favourite beverage and join us for some casual ECR camaraderie 🤓☕️
🗓️Friday, 15 November, 1-2 p.m. CET
Zoom details in no. 11/2024 GAPS newsletter or e-mail our ECR representative 📨
📢 Call for Papers "Men on the Margins - Postcolonial and Decolonial Masculinities in Anglophone Literatures"
Abstract deadline: 01 December 2024
📍Freie Universität Berlin, GER
🗓️20-21 June 2025
Abstract deadline: 01 December 2024
📍Freie Universität Berlin, GER
🗓️20-21 June 2025
November 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM
📢 Call for Papers "Men on the Margins - Postcolonial and Decolonial Masculinities in Anglophone Literatures"
Abstract deadline: 01 December 2024
📍Freie Universität Berlin, GER
🗓️20-21 June 2025
Abstract deadline: 01 December 2024
📍Freie Universität Berlin, GER
🗓️20-21 June 2025
The Call for Papers for the conference “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” is out now! 📢
📅13-14 June 2025
Deadline for Abstracts: 20th December 2024
📅13-14 June 2025
Deadline for Abstracts: 20th December 2024
November 8, 2024 at 2:53 PM
The Call for Papers for the conference “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” is out now! 📢
📅13-14 June 2025
Deadline for Abstracts: 20th December 2024
📅13-14 June 2025
Deadline for Abstracts: 20th December 2024
📢Symposium "Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders" organised by Caroline Kögler
26 - 27 November 2024
26 - 27 November 2024
October 28, 2024 at 9:32 AM
📢Symposium "Literature, Prizeworthiness, and Kinship Across Borders" organised by Caroline Kögler
26 - 27 November 2024
26 - 27 November 2024
📢Job Alert
University of Bielefeld (GER) is looking for a
➡️Professor for American Literary and Cultural Studies (W2 TT W3/W3)⬅️
🔍focus on Inter-American Studies
🗓️application deadline: 04 November 2024
University of Bielefeld (GER) is looking for a
➡️Professor for American Literary and Cultural Studies (W2 TT W3/W3)⬅️
🔍focus on Inter-American Studies
🗓️application deadline: 04 November 2024
October 2, 2024 at 7:53 AM
📢Job Alert
University of Bielefeld (GER) is looking for a
➡️Professor for American Literary and Cultural Studies (W2 TT W3/W3)⬅️
🔍focus on Inter-American Studies
🗓️application deadline: 04 November 2024
University of Bielefeld (GER) is looking for a
➡️Professor for American Literary and Cultural Studies (W2 TT W3/W3)⬅️
🔍focus on Inter-American Studies
🗓️application deadline: 04 November 2024
📢Job Alert
University of Bremen (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies⬅️
- Postdoc position
- TV-L 13/14
- permanent contract ❗️
- 12 LVS teaching load
#academicjobs #postdoc #literaryandculturalstudies
University of Bremen (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies⬅️
- Postdoc position
- TV-L 13/14
- permanent contract ❗️
- 12 LVS teaching load
#academicjobs #postdoc #literaryandculturalstudies
October 2, 2024 at 7:34 AM
📢Job Alert
University of Bremen (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies⬅️
- Postdoc position
- TV-L 13/14
- permanent contract ❗️
- 12 LVS teaching load
#academicjobs #postdoc #literaryandculturalstudies
University of Bremen (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies⬅️
- Postdoc position
- TV-L 13/14
- permanent contract ❗️
- 12 LVS teaching load
#academicjobs #postdoc #literaryandculturalstudies
📌 University of Potsdam (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Gender and Queer Studies⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
➡️Lecturer in Gender and Queer Studies⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
September 3, 2024 at 8:28 AM
📌 University of Potsdam (GER) is looking for a
➡️Lecturer in Gender and Queer Studies⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
➡️Lecturer in Gender and Queer Studies⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
📌 University of Potsdam (GER) is looking for a
➡️ Lecturer in Anglophone African and Asian Literary and Cultural Studies ⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
➡️ Lecturer in Anglophone African and Asian Literary and Cultural Studies ⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
September 3, 2024 at 8:27 AM
📌 University of Potsdam (GER) is looking for a
➡️ Lecturer in Anglophone African and Asian Literary and Cultural Studies ⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
➡️ Lecturer in Anglophone African and Asian Literary and Cultural Studies ⬅️
75%, TV-L 13
start: 01 April 2025
application deadline: 24 September 2024
Find the ad under our news section: g-a-p-s.net/news/jobs/
“Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature” 📚
Join Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell for her book launch
on 11 JULY 2024, 6-8 PM CEST
in person & via Zoom
Join Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell for her book launch
on 11 JULY 2024, 6-8 PM CEST
in person & via Zoom
July 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
“Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature” 📚
Join Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell for her book launch
on 11 JULY 2024, 6-8 PM CEST
in person & via Zoom
Join Dr. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell for her book launch
on 11 JULY 2024, 6-8 PM CEST
in person & via Zoom
Want to take a break from the usual end of the week slog? Enjoy an iced coffee/tea and chat with fellow ECR members of @gapsnet.bsky.social to clear your head. 🤓☕️
➡️Fourth Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 28 Jun, 1-2 p.m. CEST
Zoom details in #6/2024 GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
➡️Fourth Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 28 Jun, 1-2 p.m. CEST
Zoom details in #6/2024 GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
June 26, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Want to take a break from the usual end of the week slog? Enjoy an iced coffee/tea and chat with fellow ECR members of @gapsnet.bsky.social to clear your head. 🤓☕️
➡️Fourth Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 28 Jun, 1-2 p.m. CEST
Zoom details in #6/2024 GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
➡️Fourth Coffee Hour⬅️
Friday, 28 Jun, 1-2 p.m. CEST
Zoom details in #6/2024 GAPS newsletter
or e-mail our ECR representative
➡️Job Alert ⬅️
University of Potsday, Germany, is searching for an Akademische*r Mitarbeiter*in (Research Associate)
75% contract = 30 hrs/week
Start date: 01 Nov 2024
📅Apply now! Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
University of Potsday, Germany, is searching for an Akademische*r Mitarbeiter*in (Research Associate)
75% contract = 30 hrs/week
Start date: 01 Nov 2024
📅Apply now! Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
June 10, 2024 at 9:58 AM
➡️Job Alert ⬅️
University of Potsday, Germany, is searching for an Akademische*r Mitarbeiter*in (Research Associate)
75% contract = 30 hrs/week
Start date: 01 Nov 2024
📅Apply now! Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
University of Potsday, Germany, is searching for an Akademische*r Mitarbeiter*in (Research Associate)
75% contract = 30 hrs/week
Start date: 01 Nov 2024
📅Apply now! Deadline: 30 Jun 2024
Fellowship Programme “Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship”
University of Münster, Germany
Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months) OR Senior fellowship (6 months)
start date: 01 May 2025
application deadline: 19 Jul 2024
University of Münster, Germany
Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months) OR Senior fellowship (6 months)
start date: 01 May 2025
application deadline: 19 Jul 2024
June 10, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Fellowship Programme “Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship”
University of Münster, Germany
Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months) OR Senior fellowship (6 months)
start date: 01 May 2025
application deadline: 19 Jul 2024
University of Münster, Germany
Postdoctoral fellowship (24 months) OR Senior fellowship (6 months)
start date: 01 May 2025
application deadline: 19 Jul 2024
Conference Announcement!
➡️“‘The archives are full of voices’: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World”
30 – 31 Jan 2025
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
📅Deadline for submissions: 15 Jul 2024
➡️“‘The archives are full of voices’: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World”
30 – 31 Jan 2025
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
📅Deadline for submissions: 15 Jul 2024
June 10, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Conference Announcement!
➡️“‘The archives are full of voices’: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World”
30 – 31 Jan 2025
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
📅Deadline for submissions: 15 Jul 2024
➡️“‘The archives are full of voices’: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World”
30 – 31 Jan 2025
University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
📅Deadline for submissions: 15 Jul 2024
📢We are excited to announce the CfP for the GAPS conference 2025 “Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies”!
Organisers: Gigi Adair and Ellen Grünkemeier
🗓️Deadline for submissions: 15 Dec 2024
Find the link for the full cfp also on our website.
#postcolonialstudies #cfp
Organisers: Gigi Adair and Ellen Grünkemeier
🗓️Deadline for submissions: 15 Dec 2024
Find the link for the full cfp also on our website.
#postcolonialstudies #cfp
June 10, 2024 at 8:50 AM
📢We are excited to announce the CfP for the GAPS conference 2025 “Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies”!
Organisers: Gigi Adair and Ellen Grünkemeier
🗓️Deadline for submissions: 15 Dec 2024
Find the link for the full cfp also on our website.
#postcolonialstudies #cfp
Organisers: Gigi Adair and Ellen Grünkemeier
🗓️Deadline for submissions: 15 Dec 2024
Find the link for the full cfp also on our website.
#postcolonialstudies #cfp