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Martineau Society Conference 2025 in Tynemouth, England 06/22/2025-06/25/2025; deadline 04/30/2025
Dear colleagues,
Thanks to the generous support of Wallace Johnson and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, I am delighted to announce the Call for Proposals for the sixth year of the Wallace Johnson First Book Mentoring Program. The program provides support and mentorship to early career scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early Middle Ages. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters, and they will meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers.
Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics
Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.
Returning to Form: Genre, Style, and Structure in Literary Studies
The Annual Undergraduate English Literature Conference at Seton Hall University
Friday, April 25th, 2025
Keynote Address by Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois Chicago)
Calling all authors: The Texas Woman's University book series is an interdisciplinary book series that explores innovative knowledge, creativity, and discoveries shaped by women and women's experiences in fields such as the arts, sciences, spirituality, religion, politics, business, education, the military, health sciences, and community services.
In 2019, Ghana hosted the Year of Return, emphasizing roots tourism, diaspora resettlement and reunification, as well as development. Similarly, there is a growing message of diasporic return in Benin, as in other West African countries, articulated through various initiatives, policies, and cultural movements. We are interested in a feminist analyses of returns and encounters between the Black diaspora and those on the continent.
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century
Saturday 25 October 2025
Northeastern University, London
Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.
CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ‘MUSIC, MEDIA AND GLOBAL MESSAGES’, YORK, 9-10 JUNE 2025 York St John University and the
The conference will take place from October 22 to 24, 2025, at Université Jean Monnet, in Saint-Étienne (France). The junior laboratory GRAPHÉ (Research Group on Philological and Human Action through an Epistemological Prism) was founded at Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne in 2024. It aims at conducting an incipient, interdisciplinary study of the ways in which languages influence and are influenced by human actions. After an initial symposium in October 2024 dedicated to the interpenetration of language and politics, we now wish to organize a conference focusing on language in all its newest forms, by confronting it with the latest analytical prisms and methods of study.
“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).
CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS
Please note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one.
Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais.
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A) Special issue
The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a special issue on Samuel Beckett and the Tragic.
Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize
The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is pleased to announce that the Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize will be awarded to the best graduate paper submitted for presentation as a paper at the 2025 ANZSA conference, Shakespeare in Spirit, in Brisbane 2-4 July. The prize is a cheque for AUD$500 and includes mentoring support towards peer-reviewed publication of the paper, provided by a suitably expert senior scholar on the ANZSA Executive.
You are eligible to enter for the prize if:
Taiwan in the Anthropocene Network
Call for papers
Taiwan in the Anthropocene: Essays from the Edge of a Planetary Epoch
Abstract Deadline: March 1, 2025
Edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Jean-Yves Heurtebise,
Kuang-chi Hong, and Li-hsin Hsu
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.
Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.
Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:
Keynote speaker: Dr. Nick Davis - Northwestern University
Submission form: https://forms.gle/NseVDG44o6pggdao7
If you face any difficulties in the submission process or have questions about the conference, please email aberrations@tft.ucla.edu
This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.
Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities 25-26 June 2025, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA.
Founded in 2003, the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network is brought together by a common interest in established traditions in the humanities while at the same time developing innovative practices and setting a renewed agenda for their future. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.
The Twenty-Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:
*** Special Issue Call for Papers ***
Compliance, Processes, and AI Technologies for Legal Systems
Computer Law & Security Review - Elsevier Journal (IF 3.3)
CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture
Edited by María Gil Poisa (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Débora Madrid Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain)
What Ever Happened to Gary Cooper?
21st Century American Television and the Rise of MAGA
This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.
Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development
Special issue editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
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
Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.
UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.
I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:
Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture
‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.
IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation
الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
10 – 13 December 2025
Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education
The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.
We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.
Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...
**Deadline for submissions extended to February 8th**
IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference
Landscapes of Language and Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format.