Pakistan English Conference 2025
Conference Overview:
The Pakistan English Conference 2025 aims to provide an academic platform to critically explore evolving landscapes in English Studies in Pakistan. Scholars, educators, researchers, and students from across the country and abroad will convene to address pressing issues, share innovations, and imagine forward-looking curricular, pedagogical, and scholarly futures.
Call for Abstracts:
The discipline of English Studies in Pakistan has undergone significant transformations over the last few decades. From postcolonial critiques to indigenous pedagogies, and from literary innovations to interdisciplinary mergers with linguistics, cultural studies, and critical theory, the field remains dynamic and complex. However, there is a pressing need to bring together scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students to engage in a structured dialogue around current issues, challenges, and opportunities in English Studies. The Pakistan English Conference 2025 aims to create a vibrant platform for such intellectual engagement. It seeks to initiate meaningful conversations across literary and linguistic scholarship, pedagogy, policy, and praxis, within a context-sensitive and forward-looking framework. The Pakistan English Conference 2025 will serve as a landmark academic event for reviving national conversations around English Studies. The conference will not only showcase scholarly research but also pave the way for collaborative teaching and curricular reforms across institutions. With the Institute of English Language and Literature serving as the host, this initiative will reaffirm its leadership role in shaping the academic future of English in Pakistan.
Conference Themes:
Abstracts of not more than 300 words along-with 5 keywords and a brief bio-note are invited. The abstracts can be rooted in (but not limited to) the following domains:
- Linguistic Landscapes and Language Policy
- Intersections of Literature, Linguistics, and Critical Thinking
- Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches in English Studies
- Literary Theory and Critical Methodologies
- Digital Humanities and English Studies
- Gender and Identity in Literature and Language
- English Language Teaching in Multilingual Contexts
- Curriculum and Pedagogy: Local Realities and Global Trends
- Translation, Transcreation, and Transcultural Narratives
- English in the Public Sphere: Media, Culture, and Society
- Creative Writing and Narrative Practices in English
- Transforming pedagogy, testing and feedback in digital age
- Climate Change and Global Citizenship
- Neoliberal Transformation in Higher Education in Pakistan
- Inclusion and Diversity
- Teacher Preparedness
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts must be sent to pec@gcu.edu.pk not later than 6 September, 2025. Kindly keep the following line as your email subject: abstract PEC – name – Literature/Linguistics