Call for papers for a collective volume

In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).

We invite abstracts for a Special Session (non-guaranteed) at the MLA Convention to be held in Toronto, Canada, from January 8-11, 2026.

Titlle: Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination

This special session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean lens. Proposals investigating the multifaceted dimensions of water and waterscapes  in literary texts, films, television series, comics, theatrical performances are welcome.

A 250-word abstract along with a 100-word bio.

Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism

(23-25 October 2025)

Kierkegaard and Incarceration

American Academy of Religion

 In-person Annual Meeting, November 22-25 in Boston, MA

Following the 2025 American Academy of Religion Presidential Theme focused on “Freedom,” the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit invites papers on the topic of “Kierkegaard and Incarceration.” 

SAMLA 97: Knowledge -- Atlanta, GA -- November 6th - 8th, 2025 -- Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

To submit a call, please use this link https://samla.ballastacademic.com/ to first make an account and then submit your CFP. (You do not have to be a member to submit a Call for Proposals). The final deadline for submissions is June 28.

Please also make sure to visit our new website at southatlanticmla.org!

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

Corporate Fictions

Across the novel, theater, film, and television, and across genres and modes, the corporation has served as a key setting for fictionalizations of modern life. This panel aims to create an intermedial, intergeneric, and historically comparative conversation between literary and literary-minded scholars interested in the corporation as a representational content and form. Paper foci could include:

We are excited to announce the call for proposals for Volume 32 of The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, which will be published by the end of 2025. The Grove is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in the English language, literature, and culture.

We welcome original research articles, reviews, and literary contributions on a wide range of topics within English Studies, including but not limited to:

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

The issue 27 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.

Submission Guidelines

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.