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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Lights of the North

22 October–1 November

The 2025 Scottish International Storytelling Festival explores Scotland’s northern identity – sharing tales, songs and myths from the world’s northern arc, which bridges Finland to Iceland and connects Germany to Norway, with Scotland in between.

Tickets on sale now.

https://www.sisf.org.uk

for the panel "Representation, , and in Korean/American , Film, and TV", which will be held at the 2026 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference in Pittsburgh on March 5-8, 2026.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/representation-identity-and-gender-in-koreanamerican-literature-film-and-tv-nemla-panel-nemla/ @litstudies

'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'

'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'

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the evolution of chinese names in singapore: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/whats-in-a-name-local-author-traces-the-evolution-of-singaporean-chinese-names

unlike *most* of my millennial peers, i have my passport chinese name NOT in mandarin / pinyin but in my dialect (teochew / chiu chow) name. i used to be ashamed of this (this was perceived to be deeply backward, in a time of mandarin hegemony and death to other chinese languages), but now i am very proud of it.