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This panel examines the role of institutions in late-medieval literature and the contexts in which it is encountered and studied.
Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025
Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.
(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)
Taylor Swift is everywhere, it seems, and teachers at all levels have begun to Taylor-tailor their courses to harness her popularity for student learning. At the K-12 level, the TeachersPayTeachers site boasts TS figurative poetry lessons, TS-themed reading comprehension mystery games, TS rhetorical analysis units, and pages more of TS-specific materials (“Taylor Swift”). At the college level, courses devoted explicitly to Taylor Swift are proliferating, from BYU’s political science offering, “Ms.
This is an updated version of a previously submitted CfP for Planet Flanagan, a collection examining the Netflix series of Mike Flanagan. The call for chapters was very successful and we have some great work in progress, but we are still missing chapters covering two key content areas:
So, this is a specific call for submissions for chapters of about 10,000 words looking at these topic areas across all five of Mike Flanagan's Netflix series. The original call for chapters is replicated just below to give more detail.
The critically acclaimed science fiction series Severance (produced by Ben Stiller and created by Dan Erickson, 2022-) explores the idea of surgically dividing a person’s memories between their work and private lives. It raises many thought-provoking questions, embedded in a rich environment of cultural references and equipped with a distinct visual style, nuanced storytelling, and outstanding performances of its cast. With its second season, it has become the most successful production by Apple TV+ so far and is widely discussed by critics and fans. A large part of the fascination for the series comes from the multitude of possible readings it elicits.
Echoes of the Past in Written Memories: The Latinx Experience, is a creative session where participants will share a written piece that embodies a memory embracing oblivion, aligning with this year's conference theme. The session will be bilingual, and both English and/or Spanish texts are welcome. Submissions welcome include essays, poems and short stories.
CFP – “CARIBBEAN METAMORPHOSIS”
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 Guest edited by Christina León, C.C. McKee, Judith Rodriguez
Submissions due September 15, 2025
The Antiracism Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from prospective panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With this year’s conference theme— “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”—as a foundation, this section calls for scholarly work that connects antiracism work with hope along with resilience. When researching or performing antiracist work, there is the risk of focusing on the despair brought on by racism without highlighting ways communities have and continue to build and foster resilience.
Words of Suffering: Autobiographical Writing and Pain
Discernment as Process/Method
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 24.04.2025
July 15-17, 2025
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Soapbox 7.0: call for papers
Between Bodies and Homes
— peer reviewed; open to critical and artistic work; submission deadline: April 30; extended proposals —
International Pynchon Week 2026
June 15-19, 2026
TU Dortmund University, Germany
“Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)
Call for Papers
“Living in a Material World”: The 1980s in Popular Culture
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1980s in popular culture to be held 26-27 November 2026.
The 1980s was the decade of excess, technological innovation, and political upheaval. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1980s and how the 1980s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
"Sin City": Las Vegas in Popular Culture
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the many faces of Las Vegas in popular culture. The conference will be held online on 30-31 July 2026.
Las Vegas, a city of spectacle, excess, and reinvention, has been depicted in myriad ways across popular culture. From its neon-lit casinos and extravagant performances to its depictions as both a playground for high-stakes drama and a symbol of the American Dream, Las Vegas occupies a unique cultural space. This symposium seeks to examine the diverse representations of Las Vegas through a multi-disciplinary lens.
Call for Papers
Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption
PopCRN – The Popular Culture Network invites scholars to explore the diverse representations of childhood in popular culture at a virtual symposium to be held online on 30 April – 1 May 2026.
From dolls and board games to digital playgrounds and interactive media, the concept of play has been a defining aspect of childhood across cultures and historical periods. Popular culture has both shaped and been shaped by children’s play, reflecting broader societal values, anxieties, and technological advancements.
The Posthuman Studies panel is interested in papers that investigate the ongoing transformation of a human subject in social, political, and transhistorical contexts. Since the introduction of Cartesian duality, as opposed to the British Empirical monism, the field of literary studies has investigated the role of language and cognition. This panel is looking for papers that deal with literary theory, early modern philosophy, and English literature by analyzing what it means to be human and posthuman.
The way our current globally interconnected and digitally enabled capitalist formation continuously reshapes itself to reinforce categories of class and overarching capitalist structures requires analyses that engage and critique these adaptive forces of capital. Responding to this need, this seminar seeks to examine the relationship of texts to a global capitalist economy by asking how class and capitalism function within and exert force upon texts and their contexts—in film, literature, art, video games, social media, and other extratextual spaces such as fan sites.
Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Special Issue: Feminist Resistance to Fascism, Past and Present
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2025
Estimated Publication Date: February 2026
The Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI), is calling for submissions for its upcoming special issue on Addiction and Crisis in German and English Narratives.
This issue will address how addiction—in its various manifestations such as substance abuse, behavioral dependency, and psychological compulsions—is depicted in literature and culture. We particularly seek contributions that situate addiction within broader societal, existential, and ecological crises in German- and English-language narratives.
Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to:
The Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI), invites scholarly contributions for a special issue on Disability in German and English Narratives.
This volume seeks to explore the literary, cultural, and discursive representations of disability in German- and English-language literatures. We welcome contributions that examine how disability is portrayed, constructed, and negotiated in fictional and non-fictional texts across time periods—from early modern literature to contemporary works.
Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to:
Seminar “P raises his head”. Acts of Resistance in Samuel Beckett
Convenors:
Davide Crosara (“Sapienza” Università di Roma) davide.crosara@uniroma1.it
Rossana Sebellin (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”) sebellin@lettere.uniroma2.it
Abstract
Humanistic Approaches to Environmental OrganizingCFP Deadline: April 20, 2025Submission Requirements: Please email a 250-word abstract, brief bio-note, and A/V requirements to powellti@gvsu.edu.
Presentation Format: In-Person Only
On the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke's New Negro anthology, this panel seeks presenters eager to discuss what they see as new trends in New Negro research. Possibilities include the New Negro in international, regional, or local contexts; the New Negro in newspapers, magazines, college yearbooks and other digitized sources; the New Negro on the move, re-envisioned to meet the needs of different socio-political groups; the New Negro in literature (especially in literature relatively new to the canon); the New Negro is conjunction with other "New" movements: the New Woman, New Psychology, New Thought, and the New American.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual City College of New York Graduate English Conference
Through the Dark
Conference Date: May 9th, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18th, 2025
Call for papers
On Metamorphosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
International Conference, Palermo, 8th - 9th May 2025
Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy
Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo, Italy
French Cultural Center, Palermo, Italy
Deadline for abstracts: April 20th, 2025
About the Course:
Keeping in mind the increasing popularity and academic importance of literature(s) in translation that are either translated to or from Bengali, we, the organizers are introducing an add-on course focusing on both kinds of translation. Besides offering theoretical discussions on such translations (primarily through the lens of Translation Studies), this course will give the participants an opportunity to interact with renowned translators and academicians who have kindly agreed to share their expertise on the aesthetics, politics, challenges, and opportunities of translating to and from Bengali, using a “case-study based approach”.
What Ever Happened to Gary Cooper?
How 21st Century American Television Shaped a Political Revolution
Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)
Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu
Abstract
Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY