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Society for Francophone Postcolonial StudiesIn association with Liverpool University PressFrancophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st CenturyFriday 18–Saturday 19 November 2016Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London,Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU&#160;The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century in the francophone world have been turbulent, marked by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake, uprisings and conflicts including the 2005 French riots, the Arab Spring of 2010, the 2013 French intervention in Mali, and the Charlie Hebdo and Paris terrorist attacks in 2015. This conference aims to consider how such events have been negotiated by authors and producers of francophone postcolonial cultural responses. Through discussion of very recent cultural production from the postcolonial francophone world, we hope to begin to identify what sets the cultural products of the twenty-first century apart from those that came before. Whose are the new francophone voices to have emerged, and why? What are the specific challenges facing producers of francophone postcolonial culture in the twenty-first century? And what are the implications for the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies as a discipline?We welcome proposals for papers and panels on topics including:Defining moments of the 21st-century in France and the francophone worldThe role of history in defining 21st-century francophone postcolonial studiesContemporary challenges for francophone postcolonial studiesNew francophone postcolonial voices of the 21st centuryReadership and audiences in the 21st centuryForm and experimentation in 21st -century francophone textsThe publication and circulation of postcolonial francophone texts in the 21st centuryDigital literatures and cultures in the postcolonial francophone worldNew and future directions for francophone postcolonial studiesTeaching Francophone Postcolonial Studies in the 21st centuryFrancophone Postcolonial Studies and the AcademyPlease send abstracts of 200-250 words plus 50-100 words of biography in a Word document to the Conference Secretary, Dr Catherine Gilbert (sfpsconference2016@gmail.com). Papers can be in English or French.The deadline for receipt of abstracts is: 1 June 2016