Call for papers for a proposed Special Session of the 2026 MLA Annual Convention in Toronto, January 8-11

"Unpopular Shaw"

Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw was never far from controversy. This session will examine aspects of Shaw and his works that either were deeply unpopular in his own day or run contrary to majoritarian thinking today.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

abortion and contraception
censorship
education and child rearing
eugenics
dictatorship
the medical profession
marriage and divorce
prostitution
race and nationality
religion
politics and government
actors and acting

Studia theodisca
An international journal devoted to the study
of German culture and literature
Published annually in the autumn
Hosted by Università degli Studi di Milano under OJS
ISSN 2385-2917
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani

Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

Call For Papers
Conference Theme: “The World at a Crossroads”
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2025
Location: In-Person, the Student Union at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana
Submissions Due: February 15, 2025 (extended deadline)

Website: ulglobalsouths.wordpress.com

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India

About the Book

Abstract

The concept of multiplicity has attained prominence largely through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995). According to Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory, “A multiplicity is an entity that originates from a folding or twisting of simple elements. Like a sand dune, a multiplicity is in constant flux, though it attains some consistency for a short or long duration. A multiplicity has porous boundaries and is defined provisionally by its variations and dimensions.” Deleuze and Guattari redefine multiplicities to revisit Western political theory and its conceptions of categories such as race, class, gender, language, state, society, person, and party.

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

For expression of interest to attend/present a paper, submissions, and inquiries, please email: indigeneity2025@gmail.com

Convenor: Dr. Amitayu Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of English, Durgapur Women's College

Convenor's Profile: 

Call for Papers

The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:

 Trans/Pater 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

September  5-7, 2025

Keynote Speaker:  Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, London

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?

AICED-26

THE 26th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

29-31 May 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Writing in a World on Fire:

Perspectives on War and Climate Change

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania

FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT

Call for Papers (Issue 36): Family

The family as an ostensibly biological group has been naturalised as the fundamental unit of collective organisation. Yet, as feminist and queer theorists have endeavoured to show, the family is neither an innocent nor an immutable category. Protecting certain familial structures has long provided justification for the ongoing legal regulation of sex, marriage, and reproduction, making the family a contentious site for feminist, queer, and racially-marked subjects.

In the year following the poet’s bicentenary, the 49th International Byron Association Conference will delve into the poet’s enduring and multifaceted legacy from the immediate aftermath of his death to the twenty-first century. The Conference aims to investigate Byron’s perspectives on various forms of futurity– historical, political, personal, and spiritual, among others – as well as the place he and his works have held in culture and literature since 1824, both in Britain and overseas.

International Conference: 24th (evening)-26th September 2025

Location: University of Vienna

Language of presentations: English

Deadline for abstracts (500-750 words and a short list of references): 15th March 2025

Selection of abstracts and notification of speakers: mid-April 2025

Conference Warming: 24th September 2025

Conference Dinner: 25th September 2025

Conference Fees: full: 65 Euros; reduced (PhD students; postdocs without access to funds): 35 Euros