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Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
In the context of wider postcolonial and decolonial shifts that have occurred in both critical and popular thought over the past decades, we have seen growing interests in recovering and recentering histories of Islamic civilizations and their shaping influence on knowledge, systems,and technologies that we now associate with the modern world. Whether recognized as the powerful authorities that transformed trade, belief, politics, science, and art in the premodernworld, or as the ‘other’ necessary for Western colonial self-fashioning, as per Edward Said’s formative theorization of them in Orientalism, there is no denying that Muslims and Islamicate societies hold a fundamental place in our (global) past.
Romantic-era approaches to popular belief, from the philosophical to the sociological, had different ways of framing the “common.” Common beliefs might be framed as ordinary, intuitive, or rooted in common sentiment; or might in contrast suggest vulgar or popular belief, as in the category of “popular superstitions.” This panel will look at Romantic-era constructions of common or popular belief, with topics that might include (but are not limited to): “Common Sense” philosophy and intuitive belief; popular religion; folklore and supernatural beliefs; cultures of popular magic; or other approaches to “traditional” belief.
Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy, and Gender
Bradford Arts Centre*
Saturday 6 September 2025
CFP: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900: Living Discourse Initiative
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 invites proposals for each of the three features of its new Living Discourse Initiative. In keeping with the journal’s mission to publish readable, high caliber, and field-leading thinking, the Living Discourse Initiative seeks scholars actively working on pressing social, political, and groundbreaking issues germane to English literature 1500–1900.
Call for Proposals: The Living Discourse Initiative
OGOM Conference 2025: CFPSea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river
Conference page: https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-2025/
Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025
The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society
Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)
What does it mean to “feel formal,” and what does it mean to write and speak about different forms of feeling in the first place? Does it even make sense to speak of form in relation to feeling?
We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.
Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.
Deadline: December 20, 2024
Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu)
The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies invites you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.
Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025
Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Prospective publication: September 2026
Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu
Special Issue Proposals
Where: The Australian National University, Acton campus, ACT
When: Friday 11 April, 2025
CFP for Special Session Panel
American Literature Association Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the
past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various
facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of
readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the
Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and
Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture
Call for Papers
The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!
Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
BWWC 2025
TRANSFORMATIONS
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
May 15–17, 2025
Hosted by South Dakota State University and The University of South Dakota
Deadline for submission of proposals: December 15, 2024
The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.
Call for Papers
The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism:
Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities
International Conference
University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)
Chromatic Encounters: Experiencing Colour from Early Modern Literature to Modernism
Place: Sorbonne Université and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Dates: 26-28/06/2025
CFP: Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America
Panel for the Society of Early Americanists’ Biennial Conference
University of Notre Dame
June 5-8, 2025
Reimagining Early American Fiction: New Voices and Perspectives
CFP – Society of Early Americanists Conference 2025 – Notre Dame, June 5-8, 2025
Call for papers: The American House
April, 3-4 2025 – Université Bretagne-Sud, Lorient.
Christelle Centi (UBO), Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar (UBS), Pauline Pilote (UBS)
HCTI (Héritage et Création dans le Texte et l’Image)
CALL FOR PAPERS
British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) PGR & ECR Conference
ROMANTIC (UN)CONSCIOUSNESS
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge: 4th-5th September 2025
Online: 12th September 2025
Keynote Speakers Include:
Dr Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London)
AAIS Conference 2025: Performing / Surviving / Resisting
Machiavelli’s Survival: the Influence, Inter-text, and Recycling of Machiavelli’s Theories in the World
Call for Papers: The Korean Society for Eighteenth-Century English Literature
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming issue of Eighteenth-Century Literature Journal, a peer-reviewed academic publication (KCI: Korean Citation Index) dedicated to exploring the diverse literary landscape of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830). We welcome submissions that offer fresh insights into the literature, culture, and intellectual life of this period.
Submission Guidelines
Teaching Medievalism
Deadline for Submissions: December 1
Session: February 28, 2:00 pm (Central)
Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts
Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:
1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.
2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.
Although writers like Sappho and Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago, the works they left behind are still vibrantly alive. When we read them, we recognize something fundamental about ourselves. In this roundtable, literature scholars, creative essayists, and poets reflect on deeply personal encounters with “old” books, texts, and images from the pre-Industrial past. Covering a range of topics—Shakespeare and divorce, Dante and gender, Hippocrates and the modern health-care system, St. Agatha and embodiment, studying the Middle Ages while Black—these essays show how conversations with the past continues to animate our twenty-first century lives.
We are especially interested in essays that engage the 17th and 18th centuries.