Call for Papers: "Margins, Metaphor, and Medium: Subaltern Voices in East Asia" - 2026 McGill EAS Graduate Symposium
We are delighted to invite submissions for the upcoming graduate symposium, “Margins, Metaphor, and Medium: Subaltern Voices in East Asia,” hosted by the McGill Graduate Students’ Society for East Asian Studies (MGSSEAS), which will take place on April 24, 2026, at McGill University.
This year’s theme seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on how East Asian societies, cultures, histories, and intellectual traditions—often situated at the margins of global academic discourse—are articulated, represented, and transmitted across diverse historical, linguistic, and media contexts. It encourages participants to reconsider margins as dynamic sites of creativity and negotiation, and to explore how “margins,” “metaphor,” and “medium” together offer new frameworks for reimagining East Asian voices within and beyond dominant global academic discourses. We welcome submissions from graduate students across all disciplines and institutions.
We thought graduate students from your department might be interested in submitting, so we would greatly appreciate it if you could help share the attached Call for Papers with your department and graduate students.
The deadline for abstract submissions is January 5, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 30, 2026.
More information and submission guidelines can be found in the attached Call for Papers document. Please do not hesitate to write to eas.symposium@gmail.com for any questions.
We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming participants to an engaging and intellectually stimulating event.
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