all recent posts

UCL Artists' Books Symposium: Structures/Infrastructures

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:39am
Killian Beashel / University College London (UCL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.

5th Annual GOTH Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

EVENT:             5th Annual GOTH Symposium

DATE:               Thursday 15 to Friday 16 May 2025

ORGANIZERS:    The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities

GUEST PANEL:   The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group

TYPE:                F2F

HOST:               Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Humanities

LOCATION:        The Open University, Milton Keynes

THEME:            Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.

CFP DEADLINE: 28 February 2025

NOTIFICATION: 14 March 2025

 

Performing Religion in Early Modern England

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
University of California Santa Barbara Early Modern Center
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

 

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

 

Modernity in Translation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Journal: Encounters in translation
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Modernity in Translation

 

Guest Editors

Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA

 

Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction

Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers

 

Languages of submission

Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors

           

***

Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures (Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:37am
Tampere University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.

John Clare Panel at MLA Convention in Toronto

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:36am
John Clare Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The John Clare Society of North America invites proposals for its annual session at the MLA Convention in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026. Abstracts (250-300 words) are invited on any aspect of John Clare's writings, his life and times, and the work of his contemporaries. Please submit abstract and short bio by March 15, 2025, by email to Erica McAlpine (erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk).

10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History - 2025

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:35am
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its ongoing photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:35am
TC Religion and Literature forum -- MLA Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet(2010), religious values—and religious speech—have contributed enormously to justice throughout history, including movements for abolition, civil rights, decolonization, and more recently, calls to redress environmental damage as in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.

Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:34am
TC Religion and Literature Forum -- MLA Convention January 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation. 

 

Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.

Call for Submissions- International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am
Indo-Dutch Research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Indo-Dutch research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is thrilled to announce its international workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education, set to take place from 27th to 28th February 2025 at Government Law College, Ernakulam.

The Witch in American Women's Writing after 1865

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am
J. Samaine Lockwood
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference

Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025

Conference website

Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

 

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

 

Special Session Title: Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands 

 

This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and documented their encounters through travel writing.

Email a 300-word abstract with a 75-word bionote to bakirtassennur@gmail.com 

 

Deadline for submission: 20 March 2025

 

CFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
Ilaria W. Biano, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).

International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:23am
ARTIIS 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Dear Researcher

We cordially invite you to participate in the International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025), aCorporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, to be held on October 21-23, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
www.artiis.org

The conference will be in a hybrid format (in-Person and Virtual).

Submitted papers should be related to one or more of the main themes proposed.

First Book Institute (Reminder)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:23am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The 2025 First Book Institute

 

June 1-7, 2025

 

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

 

Co-Directors

 

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

 

John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 12:50am
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Deadline extended for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We warmly invite additional chapters, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Proposals due March 6. We already have 40+ confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. Following this list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 12:50am
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s websitehttps://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 6:43pm
English Graduate Student Body, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2025

Call for Submissions

Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South

 

The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 28th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2025.

 

ASA 2025: Trans Studies Under Trump 2.0

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 4:37pm
Míša Stekl / Stanford University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025

I would like to (co)organize a panel or roundtable on trans studies under Trump 2.0 for the 2025 meeting of the American Studies Association, which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from November 20-22. This is, obviously, a fraught and rapidly evolving subject, but here are some of the topics I would like to broach: 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for papers for the special issue of English Language Notes (published by Duke University Press)

 

Special issue editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India

Eunice NgongKum, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

 

Environmental Injustice, Resistance and African Literature

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 1:47pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

Pages