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International Bildungsroman/panel at PAMLA conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Martin Japtok
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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.

 

Children's Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

PAMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025

Overview - 

An International Conference Event: “All That Melts into Air Is Solid: World of Change”

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 8:58am
Saint Louis University--Madrid, Spain Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

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.

CfP: Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:56am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 4:56am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026

In January 2025, just four days into the new Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that they had ended the so-called “Book Ban Hoax” by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools and eliminating the position of Book Ban Coordinator – a position created by the Biden administration to address intellectual freedom violations in schools and federally-funded institutions.

Body,Time and Digital Technology

updated: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 10:45am
University of Cyprus, Department of English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers

Body, Time, and Digital Technology

2-3 October 2025, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus

Contemporary Ekphrasis: Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:34pm
Leo Bussi, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in both ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. As such, we are holding a cross-disciplinary symposium on contemporary ekphrasis called ‘Ek’.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus (Guest-edited special issue)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pm
Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Special Issue

Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

 

Debajyoti Biswas (lead guest editor)

Associate Professor,

Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India

Email:  deb61594@gmail.com ; debajyotibiswas.bu@gmail.com

 

Pak Nung Wong

Editor-in-Chief, Bandung: Journal of the Global South,

Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies,

University of Bath, Bath, UK

History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

 

This area welcomes proposals that explore the interconnection between history and popular culture. Proposals that examine how history is used and appropriated in popular culture are of particular interest. Some suggested topics for this area may include:

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism

updated: 
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 9:24am
University of Konstanz, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 8, 2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 8 June, 2025

Call for Papers

International and Interdisciplinary Conference "Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism"

4-5 September, 2025

T&T VIII: ALGORITHMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CLASSROOM

updated: 
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 9:03am
Dr. Margaret Barrow / Borough of Manhattan Community College, English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

T&T VIII: ALGORITHMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CLASSROOM

APRIL 17-18, 2026

 

Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:45pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Papers

Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption

PopCRN – The Popular Culture Network invites scholars to explore the diverse representations of childhood in popular culture at a virtual symposium to be held online on 30 April – 1 May 2026.

From dolls and board games to digital playgrounds and interactive media, the concept of play has been a defining aspect of childhood across cultures and historical periods. Popular culture has both shaped and been shaped by children’s play, reflecting broader societal values, anxieties, and technological advancements.

"Sin City": Las Vegas in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:45pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

"Sin City": Las Vegas in Popular Culture

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the many faces of Las Vegas in popular culture. The conference will be held online on 30-31 July 2026.  

Las Vegas, a city of spectacle, excess, and reinvention, has been depicted in myriad ways across popular culture. From its neon-lit casinos and extravagant performances to its depictions as both a playground for high-stakes drama and a symbol of the American Dream, Las Vegas occupies a unique cultural space. This symposium seeks to examine the diverse representations of Las Vegas through a multi-disciplinary lens.

“Living in a Material World”: The 1980s in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:45pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Call for Papers

“Living in a Material World”: The 1980s in Popular Culture

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1980s in popular culture to be held 26-27 November 2026.

The 1980s was the decade of excess, technological innovation, and political upheaval. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1980s and how the 1980s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

Exploring and Celebrating The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 9:45pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

PopCRN is delighted to announce a conference dedicated to the cult phenomenon, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This free, online event will be held on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of November 2025.

I Symposium on Archipelagic Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:47pm
University of Madeira, CEComp University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

 

Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Concept Note

CFP (Conference): Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

 

Conference Call for Papers

 

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

 

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

 

#Kingston2025

 

October 28th and 29th 2025

 

Call For Papers

 

Experimental Archives Conference: call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:15pm
Kingston University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

 

 

La révision/Revision

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:14pm
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Appel à communications/Call for papers

 

Climas (EA 4196) 

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026

 

La révision/Revision

 

Organisateurs/organizers : 

Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard 

(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)

 

 

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”

Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:13pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

 

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

 

Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
University of Western Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025


Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.

Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to:

Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 2:54pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts

This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing? 

Special Issue of Scopus Indexed Journal Dia-noesis ISSN: 2459-413X (print) ISSN: 2732-7507 (on-line)

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 5:53am
Special Guest Editor- Dr. Shikha Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of English , SRM University, Delhi NCR , India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 20, 2025

This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23.2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited. 

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