twentieth century and beyond

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.

The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.

Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.

Deadline extended to February 2nd.

The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

May 10th and 11th, 2025

Online via Zoom

With keynote addresses by:

Dr Michael P. Bibler

(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])

and

Dr Laura Rattray

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in Honolulu, Hawai`i from 14–18 May 2025. We invite papers addressing any aspect of literature, film, and other cultural narratives of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

In light of this year’s conference location, we are also inviting papers on literature, film, and cultural narratives of the Pacific Islands. We are especially interested in papers examining transnational or oceanic intersections of literatures and cultures, as well as papers on Aboriginal, Māori, or other Indigenous topics.

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, includingthe popular and the literary;bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for gamesand digital spaces;creative non-fiction;life-writing, biography, and memoir;and journalism and other forms of cultural production. 

For full CFP and registration information see: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/home

20th Ernest Hemingway International Colloquium

The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.

We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.

Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?