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About the conference听

This conference brings together papers on bodies that have been censored, silenced, erased, and politically contested across languages, cultures, media, and historical periods.听From state censorship to other forms of erasure, gendered, racialized, and queer bodies have long been banned, concealed, disciplined, and rendered silent by the institutions that govern cultural production: the church, the party, the publishing house, the archive, and the algorithm.听

We understand 鈥渃ensored bodies鈥� in several overlapping senses: the body censored through explicit prohibition and suppression; the body silenced by dominant discourses without the need for a formal ban; and the body in the archive, where questions of preservation, absence, and loss determine which lives are recorded and which are forgotten. Across these registers, the conference asks how writers, filmmakers, journalists, artists, women, queer, trans, and other marginalized cultural producers have worked against silencing, and how the humanities might recover, read, and re-politicize what has been censored.听

We welcome proposals from graduate students and early-career researchers across the humanities and social sciences, including literary and cultural studies in any linguistic tradition, political science, history, gender and sexuality studies, media studies, digital humanities, translation studies, and related fields.听

Keynote speakers听

Ariadna Molinari Tato听

Literary translator and educator, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)听

Keynote听 路听听Friday, 16听October 2026听

Ariadna Molinari Tato is a literary translator and educator based in Mexico City. She studied English Literature and holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she has taught literary translation since 2008. She has translated more than one hundred books for Penguin Random House, Planeta, Oc茅ano, and several independent presses, with authors ranging from Joyce Carol Oates and Hilary Mantel to Shirley Jackson and George R.R. Martin. Her award-winning work spans Aphra Behn and the landmark feminist anthology听This Bridge Called My Back. She coordinates academic activities for the Mexican Association of Literary Translators (Ametli).听

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Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner听

Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin听

Keynote听 路听听Saturday, 17听October 2026听

Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, where his research takes interdisciplinary approaches to East Central European and Russian culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Educated at the University of Kiel and Princeton University, he previously held a professorship at The Ohio State University. His work engages periodical studies, digital humanities, queer studies, media studies, and migration across literature, film, print culture, and social media. He is the author of the monograph听Subscribing to听Sovietdom: The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal, co-editor of the James Beard Award-winning volume听Resilient Kitchens, and a founding co-editor of the journal听Slavic Queer Studies.听

Possible topics听

Proposals may address, but are not limited to:听

• Censorship and the body in film and visual culture听

• Banned books, banned bodies: literature and the state听

• Self-censorship and survival: writing under constraint听

• The queer body and the politics of (in)visibility听

• Reproductive bodies, reproductive rights, and cultural representation听

• Digital听censorship听and听algorithmic听silencing听

• Counter-archives:听recovering听censored听voices听

• Bodies, borders, and the politics of migration听

• Feminist and intellectual labour against institutional erasure听

• Translation, circulation, and the silencing of texts across languages听

• Ecocriticism, ecological violence, toxicity, and bodily vulnerability听

Submission guidelines听

Please submit an abstract of 250 words, along with a short biographical note of 50 to 150 words, through our online submission form by September听1,听2026:听

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Notifications of acceptance will be sent by听September听15,听2026.听Presentations will be 15 minutes.听

Letters of acceptance will be provided to all accepted presenters to support travel funding applications. Limited financial assistance is also available on a听needs听basis. Please indicate in your submission if you require support.听

Contact听

Organizing committee:听rania.metni [at] mail.mcgill.ca听or听rania.metni [at] mcgill.ca听听

Conference email:听llc.grad.conference [at] mcgill.ca

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT THROUGH THE ONLINE FORM. FOR ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE WRITE TO RANIA.METNI [at] MCGILL.CA

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Accommodation Guide

To help you plan your stay for the upcoming conference, we have compiled a list of accommodations and recommendations. We suggest booking early, as Montreal's downtown area fills up quickly.

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An option is to book through the 91丝瓜视频 Official Hotel Program

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The 91丝瓜视频 Hotel program provides a wide selection of hotels offering preferred rates for the 91丝瓜视频 community including Faculty, students, staff, alumni, and visitors.

View the selection of hotels: /accommodations/mohp/downtown

Use the hotel code provided in the listings to enjoy guestrooms at reduced prices.

We can provide you with a letter of acceptance to our conference if needed.

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Airbnb & Short-Term Rentals

To keep your daily commute seamless, we recommend to focus your search on these specific parameters:

• Recommended Neighborhoods:
  • The Plateau-Mont-Royal: A quick walk or short Metro ride away.
  • Downtown: Close to the academic venues.
  • Quartier des Spectacles: walkable and central.
• Transit: When searching on Airbnb, look for places near the Green Metro Line (Ligne Verte).
  • BIXI Bikes: Montreal has an incredible bike-share network. Stations are on almost every corner, making it easy to grab a bike for a quick ride.