2025 MMLA theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"

Gender Studies

Panel Title “Hope for Voice and Gender” – Virtual Panel

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential,

flooding, eroding, quiet, steady, filling the earth, collecting in hidden springs.

When it rains, when we love, new life grows.

—Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (232)

Science and Fiction Panel: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

Chaired by Nesrine Affara (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- Biology) and Jeffrey Squires (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- English)

Contact Email: squires@cmu.edu

CFP deadline 18 April 2025 

The Tolkien Society is excited to partner with the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. The seminar will be co-run by Will Sherwood (The Tolkien Society’s Education Secretary), Clare Moore (University of Glasgow), and Journee Cotton (New Mexico Military Institute).

Call for Panel Participants

College Art Association Annual Conference

18-21 February 2026   |   Chicago, IL  USA

https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals

“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”

                  Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University presents

A Two-Day International Conference on

“‘Thinking Other-Wise’: Posthumanism and Human-Animal Studies”

03-04 April, 2025 ** Bankura University** 10:30 am – 4 Pm

Concept Note & CFP

Multiverse Convention LEARN Track Call for Submissions

Event Date & Location: October 17 - October 19, 2025 at the Hilton Peachtree City, 2443 HWY 54 West, Peachtree City, Georgia, 30269

Deadline for Submissions: Friday, May 2, 2025

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention Organization

Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

Contact Email: Kenneth Broome, Jr., Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

Call for articles for the peer-reviewed academic blog of the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies (popmec.hypotheses.org ISSN 2660-8839). We accept, process, and publish articles on a rolling basis and we welcome eassays by postgraduate students and early career scholars.

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

MMLA 2025 Milwaukee, WI

Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies permanent section

Deadline for submission: April 10th

The Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives." This will be an in-person panel.

We are looking for papers that respond to the conference's theme from the perspective of postcolonial and/or decolonial studies. 

From the conference’s website,

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:

Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)

Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://dismantlingstructure.wixsite.com/conference

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

【Special Issue】Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

The SAMLA conference is taking place in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November, 6 – Saturday, November, 8, 2025 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. The proposed panel dovetails directly with this year’s conference theme “Knowledge.” Even as the past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond.

This panel seeks proposals for papers that reflect on uselessness as a motif in post-1960 Anglophone literature. What sorts of aesthetic, political, and/or ethical stances do contemporary texts frame as useless, and why? Is uselessness conceivable as a literary or political end in itself? Topics that might be specifically addressed include, but are not limited to: modernist vs. postmodernist approaches to uselessness (how do they differ? Where do they overlap?); the affect(s) of contemporary uselessness; uselessness as a product of (or response to) AI technologies; and the pedagogical value of uselessness. Submissions that contest the viability of "uselessness" as a ground for literary and political critique are also very welcome.