CFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):

**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
Abstracts of 300 words by 15 March 2018; Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).

**Afro-Asian Imaginaries and New/Old Imperialisms II**
Continuing from the 2018 convention, talks on the political, economic, social, and aesthetic exchanges across the Indian Ocean in historical/contemporary times.
300-word abstracts by 15 March 2018; Duncan Yoon (dmyoon@nyu.edu) and Sean Kennedy (kennedy.sean@gmail.com).

**Alignment after Alignment: Speculative Futurities and Utopia(s) Post-1989**
CLCS Global South with LLC Russian and Eurasian
Papers on post-Cold War transnational collective/political imaginaries, attending to race/ethnicity and (dis)location in the era of (so-called) global totality.
250-word abstract and bio by 9 March 2018; Magali Armillas-Tiseyra (mua27@psu.edu) and Leah Feldman (feldmanl@uchicago.edu).