The Faculty of Languages, MSA University is pleased to launch the Third International Conference “Liminality: Voices Across the Globe” in October 2026.
The present-day is marked with blurred boundaries and diverse pathways, with interconnected yet detached territories. Humanity casts doubt on perception of clasping hands and calling voices from liminal spatiotemporal scenes across the globe. The inevitable transitional phases amid the ‘no longer’ and the ‘not yet’ marks human and nonhuman experience. Nevertheless, liminality invites to expand virtual and physical interconnectedness, recreating what has been considered ‘defined and established’ spaces. Liminality is an ever-lasting dynamic force that continues to construct and deconstruct ‘subjective reality’. Liminal spaces have been more powerful than human or non-human anticipation.
This conference aims to address unlimited inferences of liminality such as ecological thresholds, gender, race, ethics, and digitalization in-betweenness. The conference offers an engaging platform for academicians, theorists, and artists to share their ideas and interpretations of emerging concepts in fields of humanities across different cultures and contexts. Papers and workshops from various disciplines are welcomed to pronounce the questions related to this concept.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Hybridity and Third Spaces
- Liminal Spaces
- Acculturation and Identity Negotiation
- Intergenerational Transmission
- Disability Linguistics
- Virtual Communities
- Online Gender Activism
- Conflict Discourse
- Narratives of Risk, Uncertainty, and Temporal Liminality
- Transitional Practices and Storytelling
- Diasporas and Translanguaging Practices
- Second-language Identity Construction
- Hybrid Teaching Environments
- Multicultural Settings and Teacher Identity Formation
- Representation of Exile, Trauma, and/or Rebirth
- Metaphors of Thresholds, Crossings, Borders
- Voice as Identity Performance
- Temporal Liminality
- The Poetics of Migration and Displacement
- Ecological Thresholds
- Digital Liminality
- Memory and Liminality
- Medical Humanities
- Untranslatability and the “Void”
- Translating Marginalized Voices
- Liminality: Machine vs. Human
- The Translator as Liminal Agent
The conference features presentations and workshops.
Selected papers will be published free of charge in TANWĪR: A Journal of Arts and Humanities.
Deadline for sending abstracts: 30th April 2026
Acceptance notification: 1st June 2026
Abstracts are subject to a peer-review process
Registration fees for presenters:
1500 LE for Egyptians
750 LE for Postgraduate Students
$ 150 for non-Egyptians
Registration fees for attendees:
500 LE for Egyptians (Including a Certificate of Attendance)
200 LE for MSA Students (Including a Certificate of Attendance)
$100 for non-Egyptians (Including a Certificate of Attendance)
Registration fees cover coffee breaks and refreshments for the two days.
