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There are a selection of articles for this session to peruse:

Allan, M. 2012. ‘How Adab Became Literary: Formalism, Orientalism and the Institutions of World Literature‘. Journal of Arabic Literature, 43(2/3), 172–196. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41725599

Dabashi, H. 2023. ‘Where is World Literature’, in Bin Tyeer, S & Gallien, C (eds), Islam and New Directions in World Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, p. 260.

El-Desouky, AA. 2013. ‘Beyond Spatiality: Theorising the local and Untranslatability as Comparative Critical Method’, in Küpper, J (ed.), Approaches to World Literature, Akademie Verlag, Germany, p. 61.

Patel, A. 2015. ‘The Trajectory of Arab Islamic Humanism: The Dehumanization of a Tradition’, The American Historical Review, vol. 120, no. 4, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1343-1353.

Mwaffaq Al-Hajjar is an independent Syrian writer and researcher, based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. He holds an MA degree in Comparative Literature from Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Doha, Qatar. His research focuses on literariness, spatiality, and aesthetics in traditional and modern Arabic literature and Comparative Literature in Arabic, English, French, Malay and Persian languages. Mwaffaq writes in a number of literary and cultural magazines and had published two poetry collections titled ‘Poetic Entropy, 2019’ and ‘A City in Debt, A Hole in the Head, 2024’ in addition to participating in other literary anthologies. He was the winner of the Poetry Prize for Migrants in Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia in 2017, and he’s been participating as a writer and panelist in several literary festivals in Malaysia, Singapore, Qatar and Australia.

There are two articles for this session:

Madina Tlostanova. 2023. ‘Decoloniality. Between a travelling concept and a relational onto-epistemic political stance’. In: Groglopo, A. and Suárez-Krabbe, J. eds. Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic Region.  London: Routledge, Chapter 8, pp. 145-163.

Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek. 2023. ‘(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’. Contemporary Security Policy. Volume 45, – Issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468

Madina Tlostanova is a feminist thinker and fiction writer, professor of postcolonial feminisms at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on decoloniality, particularly in epistemic and aesthetic spheres, feminist social movements and theories of the Global South, the postsocialist human condition, fiction and art, critical future inquiries and critical interventions into complexity, crisis, and change. Tlostanova`s numerous articles, book chapters and monographs have been translated into many languages. Her most recent books include What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), A new Political Imagination, Making the Case (co-authored with Tony Fry, Routledge, 2020), Decoloniality of Knowledge, Being and Sensing (Centre of Contemporary Culture Tselinny, Kazakhstan, 2020, Kazakhian translation published in 2023), the co-edited volume Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues. Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (with Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Routledge, 2021) and the most recent experimental book of essays and speculative fiction Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-joint as a Generative Human Condition (Routledge, 2023). Currently she is working on a book on the stateless future.