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(Call for Short Stories) 1947 Partition: Third-Generation Tales from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (An Anthology of Short Stories)

updated: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 2:07pm
Dr. Muhammad Numan/School of Liberal Arts, UMT, Lahore
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Call for Short Stories

Anthology Title: 1947 Partition: Third-Generation Tales from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (An Anthology of Short Stories)

We invite young and enthusiastic writers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to contribute to a forthcoming anthology of short stories centered on the first generational experiences of the 1947 partition of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as remembered, retold, and reimagined by the third generation.

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Reproducing Worlds: Structures, Fractures, Futures - NeMLA 2026 Panel

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 4:36pm
Shwetha Chandrashekhar / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 20, 2025

This panel will trace the connections between production, reproduction, and world-making in twentieth and twenty-first century literary, cinematic, legal, and medical texts. Scholars of biopolitics, nationalism, and reproduction such as Tanika Sarkar, Banu Subramaniam, and Kalindi Vora have noted that reproduction is fundamentally a postcolonial problem in that it sheds light on the anxieties entrenched in imperial and postcolonial nationalisms. That said, when seen from the perspectives of capital, labor, and affect, we know that reproduction happens in quiet and banal fashions—reproduction of feelings, of habits, of desires, of work, of cultures, and of ideas.

NeMLA Virtual Panel/Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 11:56am
The 57th Annual Convention for Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

 

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:41am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 18, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

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International Conference "East - West: Synergy of Scientific Knowledge"

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

The conference is co-organized by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Samarkand State University "Sharof Rashidov" and Bukhara State University.
The main goal of the international forum is to give a new impetus to the development of science and education through a new reading of the scientific heritage of ancient philosophical treatises from the perspective of modern discussions and dialogue between the East and the West.
Main thematic areas:
1. Historical context and cultural influences - Eastern and Western perceptions
2. Contemporary problems and future prospects. East-West interdisciplinary approaches.
3. Classification of sciences - synergy of scientific knowledge

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

September 25 – 28, 2025
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

Crisis of Writing in the Time of the "Limit-Experience"

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:44am
Nozomi Irei/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Eighty years after the end of WWII, questions remain about the adequacy, let alone possibility, of language to convey the "limit-experience." Yoko Ota, writing City of Corpses [shikabane no machi] just days after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, acknowledges that the writer’s challenge is nearly impossible in the face of such an unprecedented weapon. Nevertheless, she still responds to the intense urgency to write.

[NeMLA 2026 Panel] Respuestas ciudadanas a las crisis en la España del siglo XXI

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:36am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We seek panelists for Northeast MLA 2026, "Respuestas ciudadanas a las crisis en la España del siglo XXI" 

Conference Details

57th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 5 - 8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA. Visit https://www.nemla.org/convention/future.html for more details. 

Modality 

In Person Only: The session will be held fully in person at the hotel. No remote presentations will be included.

Submissions and Deadline

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:26am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 29, 2026

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia)

 

May 30th, 2026 (Saturday).

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between July 7th, 2025, and October 15th, 2025.

Please include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.

Approved abstracts will be informed by December 2025.

[AATSEEL 2026] Animating the Republics: Exploring the Expanse of Soviet Nationhoods in Motion

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:26am
Tatyana Carrillo, Auriane Benabou
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

AATSEEL 2026: New Orleans, LA - February 19-22 (Sheraton New Orleans)

 

When taking stock of the figures that dominated late Soviet popular culture, one would be remiss not to mention Cheburashka, Vinni-Pukh, and the Bremen Town Musicians alongside the likes of Alla Pugacheva and Viktor Tsoi. Animation represented a massive undertaking in the Soviet Union, with state funded animation studios found across republics. Both viewers and scholars alike have been drawn to Soviet animation’s diversity in style and ability to address what scholars such as Larissa Tumanov have termed a “dual audience” of children and adults, often concealing more subversive messages behind an innocent storyline. 

SAMLA 2025 panel: "“To Be or Not To Be… a Man”: Reading Masculinities in Literature and Culture"

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:26am
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

To be or not to be”—Hamlet’s timeless question of existence—resonates with a gendered undertone that continues to echo through literature and culture. This panel asks a related question: what does it mean to be (or not to be) a man, and how do literary texts help illuminate that question across genres, periods, and geographies?

 

(Re)generating The Craft of the Witch: Culture, Gender, and Translation (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:57am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Witch Studies and Translation Studies are both relatively young fields within the western academic canon. Practical and theoretical connections exist between them: for example, the ritualization of praxis, the cultural embeddedness of (re)generative act, and the tensions present within the sequence of intention, act, and consequence. The modern witch may mark time with celebrations within the Wheel of the Year, protect her home and her body with amulets and incantations, or treat her loved ones with herbal remedies. This roundtable conceptualizes witchcraft as a set of personal practices and acts, separate from organized deity worship, structured coven associations, and other markers of formal practice.

Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:50am
Ruma Sinha/Rider University and Billie Thoidingjam Guarino/Saint Anselm College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

NeMLA 2026: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual)

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:30pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in person. We will use Whova (our conference app) and Zoom to integrate remote sessions into the conference.



 

Session Title: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual).

 

“The era of world literature is at hand, and everyone must contribute to accelerating it,” Goethe said to Eckermann on the afternoon of 1827, and the idea of world literature (Weltliteratur) was born.

SAMLA 2025-- "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination" (In-person)

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:27pm
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"


 

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:28am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

"Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia" - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 4:39pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 28-29 July 2025

 

CFP:

          It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.​         

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 9:32am
Prof Shuchi Sharma, Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria 

Deadline for Submissions: 

4th August 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Prof Shuchi Sharma
(Professor, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Mitali Bhattacharya
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

contact email: 
folk.songs.2026@gmail.com

 

Contributions to Wilderness and Performance volume

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:54pm
Michelle Liu Carriger
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

 <DEADLINE EXTENDED>

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

 

Quilting and Women’s Storytelling

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Hairong Chen(Guest Editor, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Hyeryung Hwang/Cross-Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
  • Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
  • Publication Date: December, 2026
  • Languages accepted: English
  • Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
  • Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

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[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 11:27am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

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