The Politics of Pessimism
“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27)
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth
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“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27)
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth
Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference
In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.
Call for Book ChaptersUrban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature
Editors
Dr. Neethu P. Antony, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Arpana Venu, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
YOUNG SCHOLARS’ SYMPOSIUM
REGIONAL LITERATURES IN INDIA: NOTIONS, NUANCES & NARRATIVES
21st April 2025 || Offline Mode
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
The Louisiana Creole Research Association invites submissions for its 2025 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture.
ABSTRACT
Since the end of direct colonization, African literature has remained anchored in a new direction of consciousness-raising and awakening for black people. This literature, which has always served as a means of expression and protest in the face of social challenges, has since served as a tool for learning and education.
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA Conference in Milwaukee (November 14-16, 2025). Though proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome, we also seek proposals that specifically engage with the 2025 MMLA theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio (or brief CV) to John McCaw at rjmccaw@uwm.edu by April 25, 2025.
Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!
Description of Session: 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 Jennifer.topale@du.edu. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2025.
Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!
This panel explores the movement and circulation of texts within multilingual contact zones, spaces that, through cultural exchange, commerce, and conflict, are defined by the presence of multiple languages. Multilingualism is often heralded as a feature of cosmopolitanism, defined against nationalist monolingualism, yet it can also be the product of forces including incipient capitalist mercantilism, imperialist conquest and colonization, and exile.
Call for Papers
Irish Studies Permanent Section
Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature
2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
14-16 November 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume with ISBN
Tentative title of the book-
“Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners”
Editors- Dr. Asim Kumar Betal
Dr. Kishwar Badakhshan
It is a great pleasure to announce that an edited volume tentatively titled “Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners” by a national publisher of repute is going to be published soon. Critical Pedagogy in ELT has gained significant attention in recent years, emphasizing the need to challenge dominant power structures, promote social justice, and empower learners. This special issue seeks to explore the intersections of critical pedagogy and ELT, highlighting innovative approaches, research, and practices that foster learner empowerment.
In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”
Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 24-26, 2025
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/storytelling-2025/
Where:
May 24-25, 2025: Oxford University (and Online)
May 26: Online only
Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”
Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
December 18-20, 2025
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Call for Panel Participants
College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”
Cinema and Posthuman Bodies
Edited by Asijit Datta
Session Format: Seminar
This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in
conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in
relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using
time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,
embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33
responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern
conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also
responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that
have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury
Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025
All details: 7th "Memory, Affects and Emotions" Conference
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! [send proposals by 5 May 2025]
Vermillion Writing and Literature Conference at University of South Dakota
Boundaries: Preserving and Creating Space (October 9–11, 2025)
University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)
Featured Readers: Laird Hunt and Eleni Sikelianos
Call for Papers
We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave.
Editor
Dr Mala Shikha Shukla
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish Studies, Doon University, Uttarakhand, India.
Email: editor@cgsjournal.com
The Theme
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Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Impact Factor (JIF)™ 2023: 0.2, 5 Year JIF: 0.2, Category Quartile: Q2, is now inviting papers on Future of Global Indigenous Literature and Arts.
Call for Papers: https://rupkatha.com/cfp-indigenous-2025
Call for Papers
Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2025
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
“Confinement and Freedom”
Call for Papers
2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025
This panel examines the role of institutions in late-medieval literature and the contexts in which it is encountered and studied.
Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025
Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.
(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)