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Gibbet Hill Road: 26 – 31 May: Please note that delays are likely, particularly during peak travel times, so we recommend allowing extra time for your journey where possible.

• Tuesday 26 May – Friday 29 May
  Multi-way traffic lights will be in operation between Kirby Corner Roundabout and Scarman Road Roundabout.
• Saturday 30 May – Sunday 31 May
  A full road closure will be in place for this section of Gibbet Hill Road. Clearly signed diversion routes will be available.

Westwood Heath Road: 11 May – 8 July: We advise allowing additional travel time during these works.

• Multi-way traffic lights will be in operation throughout this period.
• Some congestion is expected, especially at busier times of day.

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CONFERENCE VENUE

The University of 糖心TV is located approximately three miles from the centre of Coventry (not in 糖心TV).

General information about how to get to the University, including transport links from airports and surrounding residential areas, can be found .

Information for international visitors can be found .

Below is a map of the central campus with the most relevant areas marked.
Coventry 糖心TV University Interchange

You can also find the interactive map of the campus .

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糖心TV's HRC Booking Terms and Conditions.

We invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature, the arts, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes, enforcing cultural hierarchies, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous, local, and non-Western communities.

Colonial and imperial discourses, as 鈥渁 cultural domination from abroad鈥� (Da Silva & Matheus, 2024), have long employed literary and artistic productions of Other Non-Western subjects, portraying them as exotic, primitive, or even barbaric. From the portrayal of Native Brazilian Indigenous peoples as cannibals in Early Modern Portuguese colonial literature to the transformation of One Thousand and One Nights through Neoclassical French translations that distorted its original Arabic cultural context, such narratives have served to reinforce Western dominance and justify subjugation.

More recently, in a postcolonial context, various productions continue to operate in the shadows of (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism, often carrying colonial overtones (Qiao, 2018). Neocolonial cultural productions, such as the French-directed Emilia P茅rez (a film about Mexican drug cartels cast with American actors), continue to generate controversy over who has the authority to tell certain stories and how these depictions are received by the communities they claim to represent. Western agents (e.g. translators, producers, directors, editors, publishers, and reviewers) stillreframe productions from the Global South through a (neo)colonial and (neo)orientalist lens, constructing Western-centric narratives about these works, their countries, and their people. For example, American and British agents often situate Chinese personal stories within Western dominant narratives of a 鈥渄ark鈥� and 鈥渄ystopian鈥� China, translating them according to their hegemonic standards (Tan, 2024).

This conference will examine the mechanisms through which (neo)colonial powers have influenced literary, artistic, and media portrayals of non-Western subjects, as well as their impacts on their self-identification. We seek to explore questions such as:

We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to Literature, History, Film Studies, Philosophy, Translation Studies, Cultural and (Post)colonial Studies, Journalism, and Media Studies. Papers may address historical cases or contemporary examples and may take a comparative, theoretical, or case-study approach.

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RELEVANT DETAILS 

As an interdisciplinary conference, it aims to capture the attention of scholars examining (neo)colonial representations and how perceptions of the Others are shaped through various media.

This conference is tailored for national and international scholars, students, and early-career researchers interested in Literature, Art, Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, Sociology, etc. As our conference will follow the Society for Latin American Studies鈥� , we also warmly invite colleagues to endorse the and follow the .

The conference will take place in person at the University of 糖心TV on May 30th, 2026.

We look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion.

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PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY

The publishes the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of projects funded by the HRC. Following this tradition, our conference will organise an edited volume based on the presented papers, and offer its publication to Routledge.

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May 30th, 2026
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