Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice!
The 1st #GAPS keynote, by Leila Neti, was a lively & fascinating insight into attempts at aestheticisation and/or critique of war & colonial violence in traditions traced back to 19th c #EnglishLiterature - from Trump's "banger memes" to recent #IndianFilm #RRR
Digital Humanities and Global Inequalities: Digital Return, Digital Orientalism, and the Potential of Collaborative Multimodal Online Research Outputs
📍 Tübingen / Online
📅 8–9 October 2026
Workshop on digital humanities, colonial legacies, multimodal research outputs, epistemic justice, and collaborative digital practices across global contexts.
Deadline: 20/05/2026
https://data.mantrams.eu/s/ozanGLFanay2pTr
#DigitalHumanities #PostcolonialStudies #GlobalSouth #MultimodalResearch
Musical Commemorations/Contestations
Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.
Deadline: 01/05/2026
#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies
Sounding Dutch Coloniality
Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, and silence in Dutch colonial and postcolonial contexts. Contributions may address identity, memory, media, technology, and decolonial approaches across disciplines and formats.
📍 Amsterdam
📅 29–31 October 2026
Papers, panels, workshops, and performances welcome.
Deadline: 22/05/2026
https://improdeco.sites.uu.nl/2026/03/17/conference-sounding-dutch-coloniality/
#CFP #Musicology #Ethnomusicology #SoundStudies #PostcolonialStudies

Call for Papers: Sounding Dutch Coloniality – 29-31 October 2026 This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers, musicians, and artists to address the role of music, sound, and silence in the history and present of Dutch colonialism and coloniality. Music is interwoven with many different aspects of colonial history: it has been used as a means of establishing as well as resisting colonial power, it is deeply involved in constructions…
In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?
#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature
EAZ, EAZ journal, Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift
Ok Mignolo and de Sousa Santos foregrounding the term "epistemic violence" in their work without once referring to Spivak is grimly ironic