Participants in the conference will ruminate on questions of futurity —for example, how Lusophone cultural production has and proposes to understand the future, how we collectively imagine utopian/dystopian possibilities (JLS Vol 7 No 1 [2022]: Special Dossier: Narratives of the Apocalypse), how we enact decolonial practices (JLS Vol 8 No 1 [2023]: Special Issue: I Am Embedded in a History of Imposed Silences: Prácticas literárias e artisticas decoloniais luso-africanas) for rethinking the past, unthinking the contemporary moment, and thinking just over the horizon of possibilities.

The conference will include panel and paper proposals in the humanities, qualitative social sciences, and the arts (including language, linguistics, literature, film, popular music, media, history, anthropology) that explore futurity in the field of Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies. 

For more information and to register for the conference, visit the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) website.