April 25-26, 2025

57th Comparative Literature Symposium Going Virtual

Call for Papers

The symposium is generously funded by the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Media & Communication, The Harris Institute, Departments of English, CMLL, and History

“50 Years after the Fall of Saigon: Colonialism, Interventionism, and Critical Refugee Studies”

Keynote Speakers:

The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host the 2023 symposium on “Pandemic, Environment, and Life Writing” on campus on April 21-22, 2023.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Jennifer Ho, Eaton Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for

Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of

California at Irvine

Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classic and Modern Arabic Literature and of

Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Dr. Aretha Phiri, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhodes, South Africa

The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry.

WITCHES IN POPULAR CULTURE

For a volume that will be part of Lexington Books' series "Villains and Creatures" that will soon be under consideration by the publisher, we are looking for chapters (6,000 to 7,000 words long) on the representation of witches in popular media such as comics, TV series and videogames. We are particularly interested in the representation of witches in the OZ films and novels as well as in Marvel comics. 

Please send 300 word abstracts to Dr. Antonio Sanna at isonisanna@hotmail.com by the 15th of January 2025. Chapters will be due quite later this year.

For any further question, please do not hesitate to contact me immediately.

Papers (20 minutes) and round-tables are invited for a 1-day conference on Friday 11 July 2025 at Wilton's Music Hall, London.

The conference aims to explore theatre in the 1920s across a spectrum of genres and locations. The focus is on theatre in a broad sense, encompassing a range of performance cultures and demonstrating some of the major ways in which theatre operated within the broader culture and society of the time.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

The dramatic legacy of WWI

Different genres (e.g. melodramas, thrillers, comedies)

Individual plays

Variety

Avant garde theatre

Grand guignol

American imports

Pageants

Revue

Censorship

Bradford Arts Centre*

Saturday 6 September 2025
 

Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form

CFP: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900: Living Discourse Initiative

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 invites proposals for each of the three features of its new Living Discourse Initiative. In keeping with the journal’s mission to publish readable, high caliber, and field-leading thinking, the Living Discourse Initiative seeks scholars actively working on pressing social, political, and groundbreaking issues germane to English literature 1500–1900. 

Call for Proposals: The Living Discourse Initiative

AI, Art, and Ethics

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 78 (1/2027)

Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)

Submissions for ‘Ariel’s Corner’ section of Miranda e-journal are open.

Miranda is a scholarly e-journal focusing on a wide range of social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world and encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of scholarly approaches. A special section, called ‘Ariel’s Corner,’ is dedicated to the arts in the English-speaking world.

Introduction

The Sleeping Well in the Early Modern Worldteam invites papers for our end-of-project conference on the topic of ‘Bodies and Environments’ in early modernity.

Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)

Papers for an edited volume on how Korean dramas and other forms of Korean popular culture reflect, reproduce, and challenge social inequities. We are particularly interested in South Korea’s use of ethnic and racial others in its media with a particular focus on Blackness, Islam, and immigration as well as class/capitalism, gender, and sexualities. Intersectional approaches appreciated.

CFP: SCALE

Imagined Theatres

Physical Scale - Conceptual Scale - Relational Scale - Collaborative Scale - Cultural Scale - Historical Scale - Performance Scale - Spatial Scale - Durational Scale