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Call for Papers: A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy

updated: 
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 9:30pm
United Lutheran Seminary
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026

 Two-day gathering will explore the religious and racialized roots of American democracy and paths toward a more just future.

United Lutheran Seminary (ULS) will host A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy: Examining the Religious and Racialized Roots of American Democracy on February 27–28, 2026, at its Philadelphia campus. The interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars, activists, educators, and faith leaders to examine how religion and race have shaped democratic life in the United States and to explore liberative visions for the future.

MLA 2027: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 8:15pm
Rebekah Lawler/ Lipscomb University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature

MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California 

The Future of Southern Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 4:02pm
SSSL 26 Panel: The Future of Southern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

 

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026

“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN

 

Panel: The Future of Southern Studies

 

Building on the 2026 theme, Building Spaces of Freedom, this panel seeks work that imagines where southern studies is going and who will help carry it forward. The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers from emerging scholars for an open-call panel that looks ahead toward the next questions, methods, and interventions shaping southern studies. 

 

Building Emerging Spaces of Freedom

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 4:01pm
SSSL 26 Panel: Building Emerging Spaces of Freedom
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

 

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026

“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN

 

Panel: Building Emerging Spaces of Freedom

 

The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers that center emerging perspectives on SSSL’s conference theme, Building Spaces of Freedom. This panel foregrounds the ongoing labor of emerging scholars who navigate long histories of exclusion, gatekeeping, and uneven access while also reshaping southern studies through new interventions, methods, and archival practices.

 

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 1:51pm
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

CFP | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society (PEHS) session 

American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026

Hopkins’s America, Then & Now

SHAW 2026 Annual Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 - 1:50pm
Society for the History of Women in the Americas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 12, 2026

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.

This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement.

Herman C. Hudson Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - 3:06pm
IU Bloomington African American and African Diaspora Studies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

2026 Herman C. Hudson Symposium on:

 

“(re)VISION: Through Fracture, Focus. Through Vision, Freedom.”

 

27-28 February 2026

 

Call for Papers

 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY February 1, 2026

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