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MMLA-African American Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

The African American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from potential panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Informed by this year’s conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this section is calling for scholarly work that ties literature written by Black Americans to concepts of hope and its relationship to artistic production. Potential questions to address include, but are in no way limited to: How have representations of hope in Black American literature shifted across the centuries? What do depictions of hope look like when it has been disrupted or challenged?

"The Humanities is Where Hope Lives” for MMLA's Creative Writing II: Poetry

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Creative Writing II: Poetry permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks creative, critical, and hybrid proposals that connect to this year’s convention theme of "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”. We are particularly interested in presentations from poets and poet-scholars who engage with the value of the Humanities in languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies. Any humanities-oriented poetics and praxis are welcome to address any element of these considerations that are pertinent to the discussion. 

The Great Literary Roast: Giving Fictional Characters the Critique They Deserve.

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 10:40pm
Oksana Marafioti
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Literature and film are filled with characters whose choices shape worlds, inspire audiences, and sometimes make no sense at all. This session takes a playful yet insightful approach to the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion by examining how cultural memory preserves, distorts, or over-glorifies certain fictional figures. Through witty critiques and audience participation, we’ll interrogate why some characters remain revered despite glaring flaws while others are unfairly forgotten or misunderstood. What does our collective memory choose to retain, and what are we rewriting with each new adaptation, retelling, or reinterpretation?

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 6:09pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS / ACAS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2025

 

Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
The Midest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism


 

Deadline: April 24th, 2025

For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.


 

 

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PAMLA 2025 Panel: Gothic

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Melanie A. Marotta / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

Life After Life: Critical Plant Studies and Capitalist Waste

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:52am
Orchid Tierney
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

To close gaps in a special issue with South Atlantic Quarterly, we are seeking abstracts for papers that can respond to the critical studies turn in scholarship.  

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CFP - Sports and Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, March 24, 2025 - 12:23pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Sport and Popular Culture Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

 

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:17pm
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

October 17-18, 2025

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea 

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World (PAMLA 2025 Special Session)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Alan Yeh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World

Extension 4.0: Disruption and Transformation in Agri-Food and Rural Development

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:17am
Guelph University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?

The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:25am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

Fashion, Modeling, and Embodiment Panel at NWSA

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:22am
National Women's Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 29]

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 12:55pm
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

Death and Health in Literary & Cultural Studies - Conference Panel

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:37pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The SAMLA conference is taking place in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November, 6 – Saturday, November, 8, 2025 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. The proposed panel dovetails directly with this year’s conference theme “Knowledge.” Even as the past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond.

MLA 2026 Convention Panel Session - American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health Matters

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:35pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Uselessness in Contemporary Fiction (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 1:43pm
Daniel Bergman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025

This panel seeks proposals for papers that reflect on uselessness as a motif in post-1960 Anglophone literature. What sorts of aesthetic, political, and/or ethical stances do contemporary texts frame as useless, and why? Is uselessness conceivable as a literary or political end in itself? Topics that might be specifically addressed include, but are not limited to: modernist vs. postmodernist approaches to uselessness (how do they differ? Where do they overlap?); the affect(s) of contemporary uselessness; uselessness as a product of (or response to) AI technologies; and the pedagogical value of uselessness. Submissions that contest the viability of "uselessness" as a ground for literary and political critique are also very welcome.   

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:29am
English Graduate Student Body, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Deadline extended: March 15, 2025.

 

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2025

Call for Submissions

Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South

 

Disrupting Forms

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ampersand: An American Studies Journal

Volume III, No. 2 (Summer 2025)

Disrupting Forms  

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

Religion and Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:38pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

MMLA 2025 Religion and Literature Permanent Section CFP

  

The Religion and Literature permanent section invites proposals for the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Milwaukee. Those aspiring to be on the panel should feel empowered to offer proposals that interpret the concept of religion rather loosely by potentially including “the humanities” and the academy as faith driven institutions. Maintaining a broad interpretation of religion to include all intersections of faith, folklore, belief, and literature; expressions of belief may include creeds, mottos, mission statements, charters, manifestos, doctrines, etc. 

CFP: Circus history topics - CHS Convention 2025 Las Vegas

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Circus Historical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Circus Historical Society will hold its 2025 Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from October 22 to October 25. More information about Convention is available here: https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ (Registration opens soon!) 

We invite proposals for presentations at the convention on any subject related to circus history:

Christianity, Literature, Politics

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Peter Kerry Powers/ Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Proposals are invited for a session at MLA 2026 in Toronto (session sponsor, The Conference on Christianity and Literature). The contemporary political and cultural scene in the United States is fraught with religion. Religion is fraught with politics, whether thinking about the ascendancy of the forms of Christian Nationalism in the discourses and halls of power, the continued political relevance and concern of the Black Church, the rhetorical and theological interventions of leaders like Bishop Marianne Budde (ECUSA), Pope Francis, or Billy and Franklin Graham, or the difficult political and cultural engagements across national divides in the clashing of cultures influenced by versions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

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