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Censorship and Free Speech in Early Modern England

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

The nature of free speech has been a flashpoint in the past decade of contemporary Anglo-American and Western politics. Depending on who you ask, free speech is imperiled by politically correct language and the silencing of right-leaning voices among the elite, or by political administrations, corporations, and other institutions that remove books from libraries and syllabi from classrooms. As these principles collide, the dialectic between freedom of expression and institutional censorship reaches a crucible—a volatile tension that distills our understanding of these core principles.  

Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2027

Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

 

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, published quarterly by Johns Hopkins University Press for Rice University, invites submissions of original scholarly essays for upcoming issues. We seek work that offers fresh, rigorous contributions to the study of British literature across four historical fields:

 

• English Renaissance Literature

• Tudor and Stuart Drama

• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

• Nineteenth-Century Literature

 

Recollecting Milton Studies (MLA2027)

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 16, 2026

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers for one or more sessions at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. Papers on any aspect of Milton’s works, historical milieu, sources, and reception and comparative approaches are welcome. Send 150-word abstracts and 50-word biographical statements to Marissa Greenberg, MSA Secretary, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com  by Monday, 16 March 2026.

Thinking by Parts: Analogy, Fragmentation, and the Search for Wholeness in Literature and Philosophy

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 5:02pm
University of the Balearic Islands and University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

 

University of Siedlce

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

and

University of the Balearic Islands

Faculty of Philosophy and Art

 

would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part

in the International Conference

 

Thinking by Parts: Analogy, Fragmentation,

and the Search for Wholeness in Literature and Philosophy

 

Shakespeare Session at RMMLA 2026 Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 4:57pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Description: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.

Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at rmmla2026proposals@gmail.com. Abstracts are due by 1 April 2026.

CFP - MLA 2027, "Boccaccio Beyond Boccaccio: Reception, Adaptation, and Afterlives from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 4:56pm
Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Studies and the American Boccaccio Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 9, 2026

Boccaccio Beyond Boccaccio: Reception, Adaptation, and Afterlives from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Panel Co-Sponsored by the Forum on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian Studies and the American Boccaccio Association

The Seventeenth IASEMS Conference Affective Shakespeare and the Early Modern Imagination: Empathy, Voice, and Spectatorship

updated: 
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 8:50am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Affective Shakespeare and the Early Modern Imagination:

Empathy, Voice, and Spectatorship

 

The Seventeenth IASEMS Conference

University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 28–30 May 2026
Convenors: Michele Stanco, Angela Leonardi, and the IASEMS Executive Board

 

CFP – Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale': From Page to Stage

University of Padova
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2027

Call for Papers

 

The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage

 

IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027

 

University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies

 

7-9 June 2027

 

Shakespeare Here, Shakespeare Now

Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Shakespeare Here, Shakespeare Now 27-30 May 2027, Cape Town, South AfricaThis conference, held as part of the thirteenth triennial congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA), invites delegates to reflect on and utilise the axes of space and time in making new contributions to the field of Shakespeare Studies.

Keynote Speaker: Farah Karim-Cooper (Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC)

 

This conference, held as part of the thirteenth triennial congress of the Shakespeare Society of

Modern Voices, Past Lives: The Cultural Afterlife of Early Modern Women

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Description: Since the 1990s, there has been an ever-growing list of adaptions on early modern women, from Elizabeth (1998) to The Tudors, to Reign, to Mary Queen of Scotts (2018), to the countless depictions of Anne Boleyn. Each of these productions attempt to negotiate a happy medium between maintaining historical accuracy and entertaining a modern audience who may not be familiar with or care about the complicated politics of the early modern world. Adaptions of early modern women are not limited to the screen, but can also be found in music, art, and pop culture.

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