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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS (2025-2026)
SOPHIA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INVITES RESEARCH PAPERS FOR THE FIFTH ISSUE OF SOPHIA LUCID: A PEER REVIEWED MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL.
Newly launched by De Gruyter, Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL, ISSN: 2943-0607) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature.
DSLL welcomes all submissions in line with the aims and scope below. Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, so your research will be freely available for all to read and download.
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The Doris Lessing Society, an allied organization of the MLA, invites proposals for the two 2026 MLA sessions; for details of the Calls, see below:
Calls for Paper for the 2026 MLA Convention (01/08--01/11/2026)
1 Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change
The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025
Not Without Laughter: Tracing Humour in African American Literature Across the Ages
Many philosophers, from Aristotle to Hobbes, Freud to Schopenhauer, Spencer to Peter McGraw, have given interesting insights on matters concerning humour, comedy, and laughter. While the classical theories of humour, namely the superiority theory, the incongruity theory, and the relief theory, discuss the fundamental nature of humour, its evolved forms, such as the benign violation theory, provide a more compact version of the same. Nevertheless, humour is pervasive and can be witnessed in all aspects of life.
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
In his Poetics, Aristotle famously distinguishes poetry from history, claiming that “the distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse…it consists really in this, that the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be.” Yet despite their different intentions, history has continued to remain a subject of drama from Aristotle’s time until the present day, often serving to enact the tension between truth and believability in order to highlight the often porous boundary between fact and fiction. This session will explore the depiction of historical subjects on the stage in theatrical works originating from any time period.
Longing to Know:
Gender and the Production of Scientific Knowledge
Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Issue editors: Imogen Forbes-Macphail and Anna Henchman
Call for Papers
This panel, "Of Monsters and Mothers: Challenging Representations and Theories of Maternity in Literature," seeks to explore how literature complicates, subverts, and redefines conventional understandings of motherhood. From monstrous maternal figures to radical reimaginings of care, the maternal body has long been a contested site of power, anxiety, and transformation in literary texts. We invite interdisciplinary perspectives that engage with literature across historical periods and genres, drawing from feminist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, disability, and queer theories to interrogate the intersections of motherhood, agency, and monstrosity.
Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
Publication Call: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
Immigrant Diaspora and the Future Dimensions of Canadian Multiculturalism
International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)
on
Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology
Organised by
PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell
In collaboration with
IQAC
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India
5th April, 2025
Concept Note
The IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies invites papers on “Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation” for its 8th International Conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 10-13, 2025.
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Translation, Speculative Justice and Sustainability in the Global South.”
In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.
This panel seeks presentations on Technical and Professional writing, whether in the college classroom or in the world at large. The panel will be interdiscplinary - we invite proposals from those working in business writing, engineering communication, health science writing, and other fields.
Topics can range from ethics to pedagogy to technologies including AI. The final panel will seek to comprise a cohesive but varied set of papers.
“Make you to ravel all this matter out” (Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.4)
Within early modern studies, there has been a growing interest in the intersections between text, materiality, and performance, both in and beyond the commercial theatres. The Revels Office, an international research group comprised of early career academics, has always been fascinated by the relationship between textual, visual and material cultures and the material realities of theatre and performance.
This panel explores how fire and fossil fuels shape modernity and modernisms, focusing on literature, art, and culture beyond 1850. Papers may explore intersections of:
Please submit 250-word abstracts to Jennie Sekanics at jennie-sekanics@uiowa.edu or Harry Stecopoulos at harilaos-stecopoulos@uiowa.edu.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:
Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Editors’ Introduction
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures
(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)
Editors:
Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal
Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus:
Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
— Khalil Gibran
Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:
Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)
Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Call for Papers: Androgyny in Modern Literature
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student
ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg
Edinburgh University Press
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Beyond Human Divide: Revisiting the Partition of India
International Conference on 8th August 2025 (Friday)
Concept Note
Ecokritike is an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism. The journal seeks to explore issues beyond the traditional binary and complex relationship of nature-culture, and also examines the changing status of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship, while envisioning matters for sustainable futures in a more-than-human world.
e-ISSN: 3034-9214
Publication Frequency: two issues a year (February and September)
We accept submissions of articles, book reviews and special issue proposals on a rolling basis.
Book Series: "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" at Rowman & Littlefield
Series Editor: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Series co-Editor: Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
Book Series: Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities. Past, Present and Future Econarratives at University of Exeter Press
Series Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki
The Book of Acts contains elements of human actions and inactions that depict the beginning of a
new religious dispensation – Christianity that sought to redefine the nexus between the nascent
Christian faith, ethnicity, and identity. Identity is a hallmark of many religious groups manifest in
their practices that become a cultural identity of the group. This did not leave out ethnic issues in
the nascent group called Christianity. Early Christianity is construed as a "Jewish ethno-religious
identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural
identity” (Bennema 2015). This identity was formulated and emerged through conflict with
MLA 2026, Toronto, Prose and poetics of aging in migration literature
I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participants can discuss current trends in and concerns about the representation of aging and older persons across various genres of migration writing as well as think about future possibilities. I am particularly interested in aesthetic representations of aging in irregular migration, asylum, and refugee narratives in addition to the portrayals of aging parents and relatives who are impacted by younger generations’ migration.