| Author | Institution | Country | Title of the paper |
| James Walker | University of Colorado, Boulder | USA | On Gendered Nationalisms: Flaiano’s Fascism and the Murder of African Womanhood |
| Janet Wilson | University of Northampton | UK | The Maori at War: Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story (2000) and Patricia Grace’s Tu (2004) |
| Briar Wood | London Metropolitan University | UK | Freedom and Responsibility: Representations of Home, Nationalism and Narrating Women’s Lives in Patricia Grace’s Cousins |
| Louise Yelin | Purchase College, SUNY | USA | Transnational Subjects, Diasporic Genealogies: Aminatta Forna, Ekow Eshun, and Yinka Shonibare between Britain and Africa |
| Mahnaz Yousefzadeh | New York University | USA | Iranians of San Lorenzo: From Cosmopolitan Neighbor to Labor Immigrant |
| Chantal Zabus | University Paris XIII | France | Out in Africa: Human Rights, Same-Sex Desire, and the Limits of Queering in African Texts and Contexts |
| Wolfgang Zach | University of Innsbruck | Austria | Jack Davis: His Fight against Racism and for Aboriginal Rights |
| Juan Miguel Zarandona | University of Valladolid | Spain | The Rights of a Free People under Italian Fascism: Defience (1975) by the Ethiopian Abbie Gubegna |
| Pascal Zinck | University of Lille | France | On the Wrong Side of Right in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost” |
| Bernard F. Zinck | The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | USA | The Chevalier de Saint-George: Contextualizing the Problematic of Race and Identity in Pre-Revolutionary France |
| Federica Zullo | Università di Bologna | Italy | “Politics and Us”: Reflections on Freedom, Commitment and India’s History in Nayantara Sahgal’s Autobiographies |