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Call for Papers5th Spiral Film and Philosophy Conference “Rise of the Machines”Toronto, Canada
May 23-24, 2025
4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium
12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com
We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025.
We are pleased to invite proposals from UK-based postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.
In the history of revolutions, 1848 has often stood as a marker of utopian aspirations—but also a symbol of thwarted hopes. More recently, vibrant scholarly debates on the significance of this crucial year have begun to prompt a new reckoning and to revise a longstanding consensus that the revolutions simply ‘failed’, in part by looking beyond the European scene alone.
What can be discovered between spaces?
Liminal spaces, margins, and thresholds offer us exciting opportunities to explore the past and our own perceptions. This conference aims to open discussion on under-represented or under-discussed topics to further analyse what we accept as “truth”. We will focus on the northern parts of the world specifically, as the northern regions were viewed as remote and uninhabitable. Medieval and Early Modern sources suggest that the further north you go, the more monstrous the world becomes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism
Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography
Virtual issue
Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays
Published March 10, 2025: Anarchy & Harmony
Interdiscplinary journal edicated to the arts of folklore and myth.
To contact the editors and to submit your work to Coreopsis Journal, please write to:
“submissions” coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com Our submission guidelines are here: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions
Topics to consider:
The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society
Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)
The Department of English, Gauhati University, in collaboration with IACLALS, is happy to announce the fourth and final seminar of the series International Seminars on Contemporary South Asian Fictions in English. This time the focus is on literatures in English of and from the three nations- Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh- and the idea is to encourage an inter-/multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on literary and cinematic texts along with other art forms in understanding their contexts, cultural discourses, myths and legends.
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society invites prospective participants to submit proposals on any aspect of Butler’s life and work. This year, we especially encourage papers and panels that engage with her any of her work and/or her archives. We welcome both full panel proposals and individual papers.
Submit proposals to:
Kendra R. Parker
Email: oebliterarysociety@gmail.com
Proposal Deadlines:
Please include the following in your submission:
What does it mean to “feel formal,” and what does it mean to write and speak about different forms of feeling in the first place? Does it even make sense to speak of form in relation to feeling?
Proposals for conference papers are now being accepted for "Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium," held in person at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on April 25-26, 2025.
Taylor Swift has been referred to as “our modern Shakespeare,” placing her in conversation with the literary canon. Swift’s entire discography connects to, alludes to, and is inspired by writers across eras. From Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, and Baudelaire, to Plath, Cather, Austen, and Brontë, Taylor Swift’s discography ties invisible strings across literary history. This conference aims to assert Swift’s lyrics as “difficult poems” (Grossman) to recontextualize her body of work and other intense poetics.
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Failure
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University is pleased to announce the call for papers for the upcoming graduate conference, “Entre lugares,” which will be held at Yale University on Friday April 4th and Saturday April 5th, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the multifaceted notion of liminality as it relates to spaces, identities, languages, temporalities, and literary genres.
The professional journey of children’s and young adult literature scholars, librarians, and educators often involves significant transitions. These transitions present unique opportunities and challenges, often requiring redefinition of identity, reevaluation of goals, and the navigation of new professional landscapes. For this year’s “Building a Career Panel,” the Membership Committee invites proposals for an interactive workshop panel that explores the diverse experiences of career transitions within the field of children’s and young adult literature.
The times, they are a changing! AI, book bans, changes in student populations, the rise of the neoliberal university, and more are changing how we engage with children's literature in the classroom. With all these changes, what is it about time we talk about?
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur presents
Anviksha: A Research Scholars’ Conference
8th and 9th February, 2025
Conference Theme: Identities
An Archaeology of the Gaze
Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality
Anyone familiar with the war iconography of ancient sovereigns—from the Assyrian palaces and temples of Ramses II to Trajan’s Column—would not be surprised by these powers' claims to legitimate violence. It was entirely endorsed by the sovereign, reducing the victims of the conquering arm to mere foils for the political power asserting itself through force. In stark contrast, the photographs that journalists share from contemporary conflicts are often characterized by a specific focus on the victims, whose suffering has become central to the interpretation of violence.
HERA
Call for Papers
Humanities Education and Research Association
Annual Conference, 12-15 March 2025
University of Houston-Downtown
Houston, Texas
"Humanities 2.0: Traditions & Technology"
We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.
Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.
‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.
This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher
identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to
explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or
cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional
paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a
rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western
paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways
Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.
Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.
Deadline: December 20, 2024
Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu)
We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections.
The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA). The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.
Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.
Real and Imagined Spaces in Film (Call for papers)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
May 29-30, 2025
https://eventos.unizar.es/126084/detail/real-and-imagined-spaces-in-film...
Plenary Speaker:Áine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University)
The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025 and, in cooperation with the Bob Dylan Center, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. We now seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and creative sessions that will run across the event’s four days.
Deadline for abstract submission: January 27th, 2025
Conference title, organization name: The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society, Istanbul Bilgi University.
Conference date and location: April 26th, 2025 at Santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall.
Contact email: literatureandcensorship2025@gmail.com
The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society
Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, European, and colonial writings,” writes Patrick Brantlinger. But often unacknowledged is the “extent to which racism informed virtually all aspects of Romantic and Victorian culture” (Taming Cannibals 6-7).