Whether coming, going, arriving, or departing, willingly or unwillingly, we are in constant motion. This rings especially true in a globalized world, where the interchanges of peoples, commodities, and ideas across ever-fluid borders have generated an array of political, economic, and cultural phenomena. Constant movement is embedded in our politics, histories, philosophies, literatures, and artistic expressions, which are saturated with narratives preoccupied with moving across and redefining territorial, cultural, social, linguistic, and intellectual boundaries. At the same time, perhaps constant movement is as integrated in human experience as living itself, for, we may ask, what is human life but a conscious, transitory flash along the vast expanse of the universe?

The goal of this conference was to explore, from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives as well as critical standpoints, the many aspects of being and living ‘in transit’. 

              We welcomed proposals which explored the "In Transit" theme, as well as any of the following related themes:

We never arrive

                    Never are where we are

Not the past

                     the present is untouchable

                                            ~~Octavio Paz, “Return”

transience, travel, movement, migration, nomadism, unhomeliness, displacement, exile, expulsion, expatriation, deportation, transculturation, hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, (un)becoming (modern, postmodern, cyborg, etc.), bilingualism, heteroglossia, pidgin, translation, transformation, conversion, metamorphosis, disjunction, evolution, renewal, rites of passage, eschatology, transcendence, alterity, liminality, diversity, difference, undecidability, deviation, detour, transition, revolution, change

We look forward to your transit across the halls of our conference.

                 Call for Papers