Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu). 

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

“What’s the name of the game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture

19-20th March 2026, Université de Lorraine, Nancy

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

27-28 November 2025

International Conference 

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

• Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
• Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
• Publication Date: December, 2026
• Languages accepted: English
• Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
• Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

Overview

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"

Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism

Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

International on Information Technology in Education [IJITE]

http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJITE/Home.html

*** July Issue***

Submission System  

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THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT

International Scholarly Conference

10–12 September 2025

Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

• Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

• Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control.