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2025 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship
A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media.
The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike.
In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest.
We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:
Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World
Call for Papers
In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.
In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025
Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025
Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)
Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in
Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)
MMLA 2025 American Literature II: Lit after 1870 Permanent Section CFP
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“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”
CFP: PAMLA 2025
Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling
Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel
Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
Presiding officer:
Mavis Tseng,
Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center
Taipei Medical University
Abstract
CONCEPT NOTE:
The Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Peter Lang, seeks to organise a conference entitled “Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” from 9 to 10 September 2025.
We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.
Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.
Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe
Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
Anderson University
Anderson, SC
October 23-25, 2025
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret
Film Journal Thematic Issue Proposal: First Films and Early Style
Co-editors: Omid Bagherli and Charline Jao
We are seeking prospective contributers for a special issue of Film Journal on the topic of early style.
Millions experienced physical and mental trauma as a result of the First World War. Government and private organizations attempted to mitigate the war’s impact in multiple ways – whether through direct medical care, through social support, or through rehabilitative assistance. This panel seeks to explore official and unofficial infrastructures of caregiving that surfaced during the war and postwar periods, with particular interest in the way that these systems are examined and evaluated in writing and the visual arts. Papers on all aspects of the war’s caregiving infrastructure are welcome.
The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?
Call for Papers - We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Languages of the Future' Conference (5-6 June 2025), Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), University College London, London.
First day in-person (5th June 2025), second day online (6th June 2025).
We invite submission related but not limited to the following topics:
1.“Femmes écrivains à la croisée des savoirs / Women Writers at The Crossroads of Knowledge”
This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?
Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy
No. 9, 2026
Guest Editor: Alexandra Cheira
Co-Editor: Ana Rita Martins
Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2026 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:
The Streets of Tomorrow:
The Cityscape(s) of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Eighteenth-century global history is a history of seas and oceans. International trade and migration stretched across all continents. Britain’s colonial empire, and the trades on which it thrived – not least the Slave Trade – was driven by its domination of the world’s waterways. The port city of Liverpool was a major gateway for Britain’s contact with the wider world through maritime routes. This complemented the complex network of domestic waterways – rivers, canals – which played a significant part in Britain’s industrial revolution.
On this International Day of Peace , the European Scientific Institute (ESI) invites you to an online gathering that goes beyond a traditional conference—it is a shared experience, a platform for connection, and a call to action for peace.
Held previously in renowned locations like Beirut, Almeria, Barcelona, and Tenerife, MIFS is now set to take place at the University of Catania, Italy. The conference fosters academic networking and critical thinking through the presentation of research articles across various social sciences and humanities disciplines. Over the years, hundreds of papers have been presented and published in open-access format after undergoing a rigorous peer-review process.
MIFS welcomes scholars from a wide range of fields to participate in this vibrant intellectual exchange. Join us at the upcoming conference and contribute to the ongoing discourse in the social sciences and humanities!
PUBLICATION :
Presentation Format: In-Person Only
Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.
Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:
2025 Conference Huntsville, AL October 9th- 11th
The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Culture Association in the South meets annually to to present and discuss ideas about popular culture, American culture, and culture world-wide. This year we meet at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Huntsville, a lively hub of universities near the Space Center.
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, popular culture increasingly served as an intermediary to present and, in some cases, reimagine academia and the academy for mass audiences. This mediation results from an assembly of narratives from various media forms and contexts, both by those inside and outside the academy. The result is a vision of the academy in Western popular culture that is exciting and inviting at turns, but is more frequently shark-like, insular, and intimidating.