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This session explores the intersection between fascism and literature, particularly theatre, to ask how theatrical works, as well as other forms of poetry and art, can become a space for anti-authoritarian interruption.How do we break the cyclical myth with which fascism enchants the masses?
What does it mean to experience national belonging through emotion? This session brings together papers that consider the layered connections among feeling, identity, and cultural memory as they unfold across literature and media. In periods marked by rupture or transformation, emotion often anchors or unsettles the stories through which nations come to know themselves. Heritage dramas steeped in nostalgia, literary depictions of estrangement, and audiovisual forms of cultural longing all point to this dynamic. National identity, in these works, emerges not as a fixed concept but as a lived and felt experience.
Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Barbie in Latin America
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: August 15, 2025
Edited by: Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez(West Chester University of Pennsylvania) and M. Paula Bontempo(National Science and Technology Research Council and the National University Arturo Jauretche)
Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.
CFP: Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America, Vol. 2
Edited by Cathy Rex (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: rexcj@uwec.edu)
and Shevaun Watson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: watsonse@uwm.edu)
Call For Proposals
The CreArte hybrid conference seeks submission of proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers), roundtables, workshops, and performances. We invite proposals from artists, educators, academics, and public scholars who examine various forms of Latino/a/e/x artistic expression, including but not limited to film, literature, music, visual arts, and dance, and how these artistic expressions have impacted the direction of society, broadly. Our hybrid conference is held in association with the CreArte Expo Latino Cultural Festival, a weekend-long celebration where attendees immerse themselves in Latino/a/e/x culture through literature, film, music, dance, cosplay, dance, comics and much more.
Please submit an abstract to the panel session "International Bildungsroman" at this year's PAMLA conference , which takes takes place Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco.
In order to submit, use this link:
https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19478
or go to www.pamla.org, use the Conference pulldown tab, go to 122nd Conference and follow the link for submissions there.
Description of panel theme below.
Email mjaptok@palomar.edu if you have any questions.
Date: 19-20 September 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University
Mode: In Person
Call for Submissions is open now!
Complete the submission form and send it to rhizomemind@gmail.com by September 30, 2025. Website: https://www.rhizomemind.com/festival
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.
Bulletin on 10 June 2025: Final Week to Send Abstracts! Second Keynote Speaker Confirmed.
The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.
The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).
We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.
Call for Papers
Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference
Theme: Liberty and the American Revolution
April 24–26, 2026
Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Road, Herkimer, NY 13350
Conference Director: Sharon Powell, Herkimer College
Conference Fee: TBD
Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2025
4th Annual Conference
February 19–20, 2026
UC Irvine
Keynote Speaker:
Junyoung Verónica Kim, New York University
Early Career Publishing Workshop:
Tina Chen, The Penn State University
https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga26/
The “Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project team at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) and the editorial team of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series invite you to submit articles for 2/2026 thematic edition.
“Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective” [CEMORY] project is funded under Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV).
The topic of The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 2/2026 is: "Holocaust Memory in Central Europe".
Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026--Italian Food as (Re) Generation
The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.
Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, Re-Generation, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or foodway as the locus of creation and re-creation invites us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian, Italian American, and/or wider contexts of the Italian Diaspora.
Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.
The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.
Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.
In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.
Deadline extended to June 9
Overview
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.
Full Solicitation
CFP: Special Issue of Postmodern Culture:
“Speculative Imaginaries & Counter-Futures in the Middle East & North Africa”
Co-Editors:
Please consider sending an abstract for the Standing Session on Italian Cinema PAMLA 2025. The extended deadline is June 30th, 2025.
Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.
We have also extended the topic to include Italian American Film and TV series.
Concept Note
Indigeneity is a complex and dynamic concept that encapsulates the identities, cultures, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. It (Indigeneity) has historically been defined through rigid legal and anthropological frameworks established by nation-states and colonial powers. These frameworks often rely on lineage, territorial ties, and historical continuity to grant recognition, land rights, and resource access. Such definitions create fixed distinctions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, reducing indigeneity to static identity markers (Perreault, Bridge, & McCarthy, 2015).
liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027
Submissions due January 15, 2026
JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on
Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel
(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other
scholars worldwide.
This is the call:
Beyond the Anthropocene: Special Issue of ASAP/Journal
https://asapjournal.com/call-for-papers/
Special Issue Editors: Sarah Dimick and Ben Stanley
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 31, 2025
ESSAY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 January 2026