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A TWO-DAY ONLINE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING THROUGH LITERATURE (YDNBL)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:33am
Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

A TWO-DAY ONLINE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND NATION BUILDING THROUGH LITERATURE (YDNBL) on MARCH 4 & 5, 2025

ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, RGNIYD

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Department of English in RGNIYD hosts a two-day online conference on Youth Development and Nation Building through Literature (YDNBL), exploring the role of literature in youth empowerment and nation-building. The conference aims to foster collaborations that can lead to actionable outcomes in promoting youth empowerment through literature and cultural studies.

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention 2025 (RMMLA)

Women in French

Call for Papers

Representation of Repression in Contemporary Francophone Women Writings.

Call for Submissions: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Romance, Revolution and Reform: The Journal of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 18, 2025

Romance, Revolution and Reform, Issue 8Play in the Long Nineteenth Century Call for Submissions

MLA Special Session Women and Physical Objects

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
2026 MLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

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

Special Session Title: Women and Physical Objects

We invite proposals exploring women’s encounters and interactions with physical objects in all literary and cultural products across history and regions. Comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches are welcome.

Email your 250-word proposal and a 150-word cv to Haihong Yang, hyang@udel.edu and Wanming Wang, wanming.wang@mail.mcgill.ca, by 3/15.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2025.

[MLA 2026] Comparative Comfort Women Studies

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Modern Language Association 2026 - Toronto, Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The scholarly research on Comfort Women studies has grown significantly over the past three decades, focusing on the experiences of women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Early works primarily centered on the historical and legal aspects, analyzing the testimonies of survivors and the geopolitical ramifications of Japan's wartime actions. Studies such as Yoshimi Yoshiaki's Comfort Women (1995) and the testimonies collected by organizations like the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery highlighted the widespread nature of the system and the ongoing struggles for justice.

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
Rutgers University Graduate Student Conference in German Studies 
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Enthusiasm: A Political Affect? 

Keynote Speaker: Avital Ronell 

24-25 April 2025 

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American Philosophical Society - Science History Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

"American Narratives and Video Games" Special Issue of American, British and Canadian Studies

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:32am
American, British and Canadian Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

American, British and Canadian Studies

Special Issue

American Narratives and Video Games

December 2025

Call for Papers

 

Guest Editors

Francesca Razzi, “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (francesca.razzi@unich.it)

Valentina Romanzi, University of Torino and University of Verona (valentina.romanzi@unito.it)

 

Forms and Discourses of Spirituality and Materialism

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Sixteenth IASEMS Conference

Tuscia University (Viterbo), 29-30 September 2025 Convenors: Alba Graziano and the IASEMS Executive Board

Waters: Fluidity and Crossing in Shakespeare and Early Modern Texts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
IASEMS Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference

University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board

The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.

Symphonies of Imagination - Issue #4 - Education - Print

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Symphonies of Imagination
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.

It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.

The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.

Call For Papers - CFP

Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Michael Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Engaging the Local Public Humanities in St. Louis Colloquium & Workshop
Colloquium Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
Deadline for Submissions: March 1, 2025

“Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters” - Anda International Conference, 25-26 SEPTEMBER 2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Università del Salento, Lecce - Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters

Anda International Conference

Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy

25-26 September 2025

 

 

Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:

 

2025 Conference of The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Our third annual conference on May 2-3 via Zoom! This online conference is free to attend. Please use this link to register to present or attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiuxTNYFJPUPxF1gAdfH1pQthfjig...

Submissions may cover any aspect of literature, film, or art related to science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (approximately 1789 to 1918). Also welcome are presentations on tv, film, and video game adaptations of nineteenth-century texts, or on works that re-envision the nineteenth century through science fiction or fantasy. Submissions to present are due by March 28.

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Matthew Crofts (University of Hull), Maddy Potter (University of Edinburgh)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

CFP: Dracula: A Companion

Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter

Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students. 

Radical Retellings: New Perspectives on Greek Myth in Contemporary Writing

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:31am
Isabelle Berrow, Zoe Enstone, and Anne-Marie Evans
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

Are Greek myths, as Charlotte Higgins argued for The Guardian in 2021, ‘relevant for all time’? This question relates to the widespread influence of ancient Greek myth in contemporary culture, especially in areas such as literature. The classical stories of Homer and Sophocles, amongst others, are frequently being revised to offer a modern entry point to ancient myth. In recent years, publishing has seen a sharp rise in re-imaginings of Greek myth, and works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, Bea Fitzgerald, and Jessie Burton, have all appeared on bestseller lists. 

Symposium at ABRALIC 2025: The Forms of Academic Work

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Tim Lanzendörfer
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Publication date:    Spring 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              Finnish, English, German or Swedish

 

Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts

Shakespeare in Spirit

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.

Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.

Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Angela Nelson/Bowling Green State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Indie Lens Pop-Up, WBGU-PBS, the Popular Culture Program, and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference to be held on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2025. The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference will serve as a celebration and screening of the Independent Lens film We Want the Funk.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

David Lynch and American Empire

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:30am
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This proposed panel for ASA 2025 seeks scholarly papers that explore David Lynch’s work through the lens of American Empire. In keeping with the conference theme (“Late-Stage American Empire”), this panel will explore Lynch’s work in political, historical, and geographic terms, building upon and departing from the psychological framework so frequently evoked in Lynch criticism and scholarship. What can be gained from investigating Lynch’s work as a reflection and interrogation of American empire? How might his depictions of the Harkonnens in Dune, for instance, represent the global avarice of post-war America?

Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2024

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation.

Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture CFP [Extended Deadline]

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections,titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

deBlock 2025 : deBlock; Blockchain and Crypto Academic Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Blockchain Research Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

 

Call For PapersWe are pleased to invite experts, students, and researchers interested in blockchain and crypto assets to the First International deBlock Conference, which will take place in Tehran in May 2025.

"Justice" (SCLA, September 25-27, 2025, Austin TX)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

2025 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

September 25-27, 2025
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX

“Justice”

Keynote Speaker: TBA

Cultural Intertexts vol. 15/2025

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Cultural Intertexts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

We hereby invite proposals of original articles related to the general theme of Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078.

 

The editors will consider for publication papers which tackle strategies of representation and of (inter)textual construction emerging from the dialogic relation between:

-       literature and the historical and cultural context of text production;

-       distribution and consumption;

-       literature and other arts (music, film, visual arts, etc.) or sciences (linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, history, sociology and political sciences, internet and new technologies, etc.);

CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century (International Symposium, Lyon, France)

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:28am
Julien Negre / ENS de Lyon
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c.

 International symposium

April 1-3, 2026
ENS de Lyon, France

 

Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud).

 

Keynote speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC).

 

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