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PAMLA 2025: Navigating Graduate School: You're ABD, Now What? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:52pm
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation - Call for Chapters

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:31am
Chris Wei / The University of Houston
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027)

Editors: Weixiao Wei and Zhaoming Gao 

We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome contributions that explore how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the theory and practice of Chinese translation across various domains.

The Art of Living: Living, Learning, and Liberal Education

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 5:28pm
Frederick Whiting / Blount Scholars Program, University of Alabama
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

[CFP: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 21st]

The Art of Living: Living, Learning, and Liberal Education - October 29-31, 2025 

Keynote Speaker:

Julie Reuben

Professor of the History of American Education, Harvard University

Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 5:12pm
Mitch R. Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Many teachers of 21st century anglophone literature would agree that the field’s strength lies in how it has opened literary study to new authors, genres, mediums, and methods. But the field lacks unifying vocabularies, canons, and pedagogies. Among teachers themselves, there is bafflingly little deliberation about the goals of our teaching and what we expect our students to learn from the study of the literature of the present. So, what exactly is the job of teaching 21st century literature?

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Generative AI in the College Classroom (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 6:33pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.

The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Technical and Professional Writing (MMLA 2025, Milwaukee, WI)

updated: 
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 6:33pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

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.

Survival and Healing

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 11:23am
Michigan College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 18, 2025

       

https://michigancea.org/

 

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 4, 2025

 

Themes:  Survival and Healing

 

Featured Speaker: Gail Griffin, poet and non-fiction writer

 

SAMLA 97: CFP for “Transdisciplinary Knowledge Making in Community-Engaged Pedagogy”

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals that explore any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.

Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

Multiple-Births in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Modern Language Association 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

Multiple-Births in Literature

updated: 
Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:16pm
Modern Language Association 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

 

MMLA 2025 CFP: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Jeffrey Squires / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Science and Fiction Panel: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

Chaired by Nesrine Affara (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- Biology) and Jeffrey Squires (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- English)

Contact Email: squires@cmu.edu

 


 

CFP deadline 18 April 2025 

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters: Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Dr. Aby John, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 12, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)

 

Important Deadlines

               Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words)                 :               April 12, 2025

               Full Chapter Submission                                                                 :               June 15, 2025

Canadian and Québec Literatures: Online Conference May 23-25

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:28pm
The Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

ACQL General Call for Papers: 2025 ONLINE Conference 

Founded in 1975 in the wake of Canada’s official ratification of multiculturalism, the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures has, over more than 45 years, emerged as Canada’s premier association for showcasing multilingual and transnational research in Canadian and Québec literatures. 

This year, ACQL will host its annual conference ONLINE between Friday, May 23rd and Sunday, May 25th.

We invite potential participants to submit NEW proposals in English or in French on research, teaching, and professional matters of relevance to current or prospective members. 

Pathways to PhD: Updated Advice for Graduate Students in the Humanities for 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 3:26am
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

What will (or should) graduate education look like in 2035? What needs will graduate students have? How can programs best support grad students? What should grad students know now as they move from application to career that is different from ten or more years ago? 

For this guaranteed panel, we seek presentations that address the many pathways to the PhD in our current times (and beyond), as well as updated guidance and advice for graduate students from application to career. 

Potential papers might address, but are not limited to, the following: 

  • Updated graduate school advice, from application to career; 

Impairment Theory (Guaranteed Session MLA 2026)

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 3:24am
Impairment Theory: Guaranteed Session, Sponsored by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession (CDI) at MLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session21868.html

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

IEEE AI TEST 2025

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:24pm
6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call for Papers - IEEE AI Test 2025

"6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing"

July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, United States

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve and integrate into various applications, ensuring their reliability, robustness, and security is critical. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AI TEST 2025) serves as a premier venue for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to exchange insights, methodologies, and innovations in AI testing and validation.

SAMLA 97: Knowledge

updated: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025 - 1:16pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

SAMLA 97: Knowledge -- Atlanta, GA -- November 6th - 8th, 2025 -- Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

 


To submit a call, please use this link https://samla.ballastacademic.com/ to first make an account and then submit your CFP. (You do not have to be a member to submit a Call for Proposals). The final deadline for submissions is June 28.

Please also make sure to visit our new website at southatlanticmla.org!

Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop

updated: 
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 12:33pm
Michael Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Call for Papers: Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop
Colloquium Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Deadline for Submissions: March 18, 2025

Stanford Financial Education Symposium - Call for Papers on financial education

updated: 
Monday, February 24, 2025 - 5:43am
Stanford Initiative on Financial Decision-Making
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM) and the National Endowment for Financial Education are happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Stanford Financial Education Symposium (formerly Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute). It will be held on April 10-11, 2025, during Financial Literacy Month in the U.

Special Issue on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 12:05pm
The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP Special Issue, Volume 22 (2026) : Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between

Abstract Submission Due Date: April 1, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2025.
Accepted Essays Due Date: January 1, 2026.

CELJ 2024 Virtual Conference: Open Dialogues April 4–5, 2025, from 2-6pm ET (Live)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 11:40am
Council of Editors of Learned Journals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is pleased to host its inaugural conference to expand the knowledge sharing CELJ provides through its listserv, mentoring workshops, and Modern Language Association convention sessions. The online format offers a space where more of our members, and potential new members, can be included. The conference will be virtual and recorded for CELJ members who are not able to attend. 

Call For Papers 

The conference theme is Open Dialogues, and the organizers encourage submissions of roundtable-based discussions specific to editorial and publishing topics of conversation including, but not limited to: 

CFP: Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
Feminist Formations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We are inviting submissions for a special issue of *Feminist Formations* onthe topic of "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University."

Abstracts are due March 31, 2025.

The Evolving Role of AI in Language and Literature Pedagogy

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Modern Language Association 2026 Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This virtual roundtable explores AI's transformative impact on teaching language and literature. We welcome proposals that provide concrete examples or innovative methodologies for integrating AI, contributing to a dynamic and practical pedagogical toolkit. Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025 to svetatyutina@yahoo.com.

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