GAPS conference 2025
Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Challenges for Postcolonial Studies
29 - 31 May 2025 at Bielefeld University
“Capitalism is back!” announced Nancy Fraser recently, suggesting that now, once more, scholars and commentators were again beginning to name capitalism as the connection and a key cause of the oft-cited “multiple crises” of our age. These crises include advancing climate catastrophe; rapidly growing inequality within many countries and globally; ongoing atrocious working conditions, especially in the global South; the profiting of the global North off the indebted South; mass displacement as a result of all these factors made deadly by increasingly fortified borders; widespread social disintegration and the growing influence of authoritarian and fascist politics – to name some of the effects of capitalism and its present structural crisis of overaccumulation and chronic stagnation.
These effects are global and planetary yet deeply uneven, reflecting in particular the history of European imperialism. How can and should postcolonial literary and cultural studies respond, anew, in the 21st century? Or is it prevented from formulating an effective analysis of capitalism by its own philosophical commitments?
(Excerpt from the Call for Papers)
Welcome to the annual GAPS conference 2025 which will take place in late May at Bielefeld University! (What is GAPS?)
The registration is already open and faculty members and students from Bielefeld University are offered a special discount so we are welcoming you to register as an attendee and join the lectures, panels and discussions!
Any questions regarding the conference can be send to gaps2025@uni-bielefeld.de.