Welcome to the ACLALS 2025 Triennial Conference Abstracts Portal
We are delighted to share with you the Book of Abstracts for the 20th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), hosted at the University of Nairobi from July 1st to 5th, 2025. This year’s conference convenes under the theme “Transcultural Englishes in a Multipolar World”, and brings together a vibrant network of scholars, writers, and artists whose work reimagines the place of English in a changing global landscape.
This collection of keynote addresses, panels, and individual abstracts showcases an impressive breadth of thought—from literary activism and decolonial theory to transcultural ecologies and African futurisms. As you explore the abstracts, we invite you to engage deeply with the conversations that animate this year’s gathering: about language, place, power, and the critical imagination in times of planetary crisis and epistemic reconfiguration.
We look forward to welcoming you to Nairobi for what promises to be a rich and transformative academic exchange.