The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from graduate students in Mississippi for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Vol. 48, No. 4, Winter 2025
Special Issue | Call For Papers

Reimagining the Ocean: The Blue Humanities in French and Francophone Studies

Guest Editors: Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA) and Isaac Joslin (Arizona State University, USA)

Abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2025
(150-250 words, send to both kam131@msstate.edu and ijoslin@asu.edu)
Final paper submission deadline: July 15, 2025
(Manuscripts in 5,000–10,000 words adhering to the MLA 9th edition)

REANIMATING HERESIES 

JUNE 8-10, 2025BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY  https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered. 

Please be advised that dragons are the primary focus of the collection. I have received several abstracts about fairy tales in general, and I apologize for any confusion caused by the CFP. All chapters must discuss dragons in some way.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

Deadline for Submission: Nov. 29, 2024 DEADLINE EXTENDED: Dec. 29, 2024

As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."

The UC Davis English Department is hosting its third annual student-led Connections conference under the wide-ranging theme of “Landscapes.” Organized by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), the Connections 2025 in-person conference examines the concept of landscape in its broadest sense—not only as a physical terrain but also as a cultural, social, political, and literary construct.

The August Wilson Society

at the

American Literature Association

announces its

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the

36th Annual ALA Conference

May 21–24, 2025 

The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02116

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.

While we received a high volume of truly exciting submissions for the conference Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today, we are extending the deadline to further the interdisciplinarity of the event! As such, we are encouraging abstracts analysing contemporary discourses or intermedial representations of death in life across fields including (but not limited to): queer and sex studies, human rights, criminology, sociology, and medical humanities.

Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 12-14, 2025

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/astrology-2025/

Call for Papers:

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/cJAzkPYfKhJJNbWK7
Format: Online
Plenary Speakers: TBC
Fee: 100 GBP 

“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung

To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction and film (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more practical, didactic or ideological aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc. And despite our rich conceptual vocabulary of frustrating narratives—“weak narrativitiy” (McHale 2001), plot “perversion” (Roof 1996), “antinarrative” (Rose 2012), “unnarratability” (Abbott 2003; Warhol 2005)—much remains to be explored about the motivations, readerly dynamics and impacts of narrative frustration.

The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society will host two sessions at the upcoming ALA Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. The PEHS is collaborating with the Research Society of American Periodicals (RSAP) on one of these two sessions. You can find the two CFPs below. Please consider submitting a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2025. 

PEHS CFP One: