IRNPPC Events
On June 30th the IRNPPC will host a summer reading group on postcolonial print cultures at the University of Chicago’s John W. Boyer Center in Paris. This event has been organised with the support of the IIRP, The Nicholson Center for British Studies, and the IRL HumanitiesPlus (UChicago-CNRS International Research Lab.
The next IRNPPC conference will take place at the University of Chicago on November 5th and 6th, 2026. This conference will be a follow-up to our workshop in Paris that took place in September 2025, focusing on textual/visual interaction in postcolonial print and mixed media.
WORKSHOP
Global Fascisms
June 30, 2026 | University College London
This one-day workshop organised by the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the School of Advanced Study (University of London) will bring together a range of voices in terms of regional focus (Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe), institutional location, and career stage to present new work that reconsiders the complex legacies of fascism, the Second World War and genocide in global context.
The workshop is part of a wider move to de-provincialise and historicise the current rise of far-right and fascist politics. Despite transnational trends in fascism studies and related fields, the public and academic understanding of fascism and its legacies is still Eurocentric. Much work on the ‘alt-right’ is also ahistorical. We will look at the ways in which a paradoxically transnational ideology played out in regions that are often overlooked in the study of fascism. We will also consider the resources available from the study of historical anti-fascist movements for teachers, activists and researchers dealing with far-right political mobilization in the current day.
For questions about the workshop, please contact the organisers:
Pragya Dhital (School of Advanced Studies, University of London): pragya.dhital@sas.ac.uk and Zoltán Kékesi (Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, UCL): z.kekesi@ucl.ac.uk
CONFERENCE
Congress of African Studies: Rencontre des études africaines en France
June 29 to July 2, 2026 | Condorcet Aubervilliers Campus
The congress brings together specialists working on Africa across different disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, literature and philosophy, environmental sciences, and economic sciences. These meetings are an invitation to go beyond disciplinary and institutional boundaries and offer researchers the opportunity to exchange ideas on common research themes by comparing methodologies, historical periods, and geographical areas of the continent. Find the full program here.
Of particular interest to our IRNPPC community might be the panel “Archives de chercheurs africanistes” organized by Claire Riffard and Alice Chaudemanche, happening June 30th 2026, 8.30AM-1.00PM.
Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press. Co-edited by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall. Wits University Press, 2024.
Chaudhuri, Supriya. “Transmodernity, Local Knowledges and Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s Khwabnama.” In Asian Review of World Histories 14:1 (2026)
Chaudhuri, Supriya. “Out of Place: Migration, knowledge and what remains.” In Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms. Edited by Subha Mukherji, Natalya Din-Kariuki and Rowan Williams. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2025.
Marzagora, Sara. “Comparative Literature and the Genocide in Palestine.” Comparative Critical Studies 23, no. 1 (2026): 5–26.
Onabanjo, Tomi. “Moving Words, Shifting Visions: An Interview with Leslie James.” JHI Blog: The Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, June 3, 2026.
Supported by the India Foundation for the Arts, this project led by Pankti Desai focuses on Panther, a Gujarati little magazine published between 1974 and 1981 and associated with the Dalit Panther movement Gujarat, which functioned as a key site of anti-caste dissent, radical literary expression, and counter-public discourse. As part of this work, a digital archive of Panthermagazine has been created, comprising 57 digitized and catalogued issues, accessible to researchers upon request, alongside audio interviews with poets and editors documenting first-hand histories. Researchers interested in consulting the collection for scholarly purposes may do so through India Foundation for the Arts for research purposes.
IRNPPC website: You can consult our digitized archives here. This is a work in progress, and we welcome suggestions you may have for us to include in this section
Gentle reminder: Please send all IRNPPC news that you would like to promote (concerning publications, jobs, conferences, archives, etc) to Shrutakirti Dutta, our intern and web administrator, at shrudutta@gmail.com and to Laetitia Zecchini at laetitia.zecchini@cnrs.fr.