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Early Modern Narrative Theory (RSA2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?

Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025. 

Marginal Infrastructures

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 

Date: 19-20 September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

Chapters on Gullah Geechee Narrative and Song in American Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Feroza Jussawalla, Emeritas Professor, University of New Mexico
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Seeking original book chapters for a collection of essays on the influence of Gullah Geechee narratives and songs in contemporary American literature and culture, recognizing and cataloguing the long-overlooked contributions of the of the Sea Island people of the southeast coast of the United States. Interdisciplinary contributions encouraged.

 

Chapter length: approximately 6,000 words

 

Submit a proposal of 300-400 words via email by July 10th, 2025.

 

Feroza Jussawalla

fjussawa@unm.edu

 

Gerard Lavin

jerrylavin@hotmail.com

Jewish Film and New Media Deserving New/Renewed Consideration

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The international journal Jewish Film and New Media is currently seeking article-length manuscripts on international cinema, television, or other new media (e.g. YouTube videos, photographs, graphic novels) about or made by Jews. Of particular interest is consideration of texts deserving new or renewed consideration.

Submissions should be 8,000-10,0000 words in length following Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Notes should appear at the end of the essay, in the same font size as the text, and double spaced.

Deadline for consideration in upcoming issues is September 1, 2025.

Afro-Gothic in Latin America and the Caribbean: (Re)Generating Horror from the Periphery

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
NeMLA Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

African American Gothic and Horror have begun to receive more focused scholarly attention in the last decade or so, and interest has only increased with the release of films such as Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler’s recent box-office hit Sinners (2025). Meanwhile, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Gothic forms have yet to receive much critical attention or attain cross-cultural success, a gap that is arguably due to prolonged histories of erasure and particular manifestations of anti-Blackness in these regions. This session aims to begin teasing out a framework of analysis for the sub-field of Afro-Latin American Gothic.

Archetypes & Myths: ERAH Graduate Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Date: October 17-19, 2025

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Archetypes & Myths

 

Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025

Keynote(s): TBD

 

Graduate students of Southern Methodist University’s Departments of English, Anthropology, and History, in collaboration with the Moody School of Advanced Studies, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, and the department of English, have collaborated to hold the second annual Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH) Conference at SMU from October 17th-October 19, 2025. 

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/07/synchronicity-and-intuition/

 

July 23-24, 2025

Online, Via Zoom

 

Proposal deadline: July 1, 2025

 

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

 

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Children's Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEPCA 2025's Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Northeast Popular & American Culture Assoication
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th – Saturday, October 11th. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEPCA 2025's Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Northeast Popular & American Culture Assoication
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th – Saturday, October 11th. We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference, including proposals for the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area.

Southern Humanities Conference 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Southern Humanities Council
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2026

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: Tides and Time, Ebbs and Flows

Annapolis, MD, January 29- February 1, 2026

Historic Inns of Annapolis

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

I Cine Bárbaras – Conferência Internacional de Cinema e Audiovisual

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
XX Element Project Associação Cultural
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

Encontra-se aberta a chamada de trabalhos para o I Cine Bárbaras – Congresso Internacional de Cinema e Artes Audiovisuais , que decorrerá nos dias 23 e 24 de outubro de 2025 , na Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto , reunindo investigadores e profissionais que trabalham nas áreas do cinema e dos estudos audiovisuais.

PAMLA Session on African Literature and Abdulrazak Gurnah

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:56pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Reclaiming History: Trauma, Memory and Resilience in the Narratives from Africa

Deadline for Abstract/Proposal Submission - June 30th 2025

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PAMLA 2025: "Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously."

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:54pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

 

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

Languages of the Future – Think Pieces

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 12:16pm
UCL – Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

Call for Papers - Following the recent success of our 'Languages of the Future' conference, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for a special issue of UCL online journal Think Pieces: https://thinkpieces-review.co.uk/

Think Pieces provides a host of different format opportunities. We are inviting academic essays of up to 3,000 words, but are also open to more create pieces such as narrative non-fiction and poetry. 

Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:43am
Peter Lang
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

 

(Call for Paper & Podcast ) - Peter Lang

Victorian literature is being fundamentally reimagined. What was once read through the lens of industrial realism, imperial narration, and bourgeois decorum is now being reassessed through new critical modes such as Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Food history, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonial re-readings. The aim of Rewriting the Victorian Imagination: Fables, Flesh, and Fluidity in Nineteenth-Century Literature is to consolidate and advance these reconfigurations by drawing together new research that unsettles the stable categories through which the “Victorian” has traditionally been understood.

EAPSU 2025: Threat Assessments

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:20am
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Hosted in-person and online at Slippery Rock University October 23-24 (online) and 25 (at Slippery Rock University’s main campus)

Presenters must be instructional faculty or students at a PASSHE institution - proposals from outside the PASSHE system cannot be accepted

Langston Hughes’s Blues Vision in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners: A Special Issue of The Langston Hughes Review

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:19am
Tony Bolden
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 4, 2025

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a quintessential blues narrative composed for the twenty-first century. The film embodies perspectives commonly found in blues-oriented expression, including songs, autobiographies, and interviews, not to mention Black fiction and poetry that thematizes and/or reflects blues-oriented music and blues criticism as well. But before academic scholars considered blues worthy of analysis, Langston Hughes wrote critically and creatively about blues music and the suffusion of its principles throughout much of Black expressive culture. In fact, he first observed a blues performance in his early teens, well before Mamie Smith’s recording “Crazy Blues” (1920) launched the classic blues era.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 10:19am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

Organiser: The Department of English, and Department of History, Bodoland University in

Collaboration with Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya, Bhattadev University is

An International Conference Event: “All That Melts into Air Is Solid: World of Change”

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 8:58am
Saint Louis University--Madrid, Spain Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Bulletin on 10 June 2025: Final Week to Send Abstracts! Second Keynote Speaker Confirmed.

The Department of Communication at Saint Louis University’s Madrid, Spain campus announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference that examines change from a wide panorama of angles.

The conference will take place across Thursday and Friday, 2-3 October 2025 on the SLU-Madrid Campus, close to central Madrid (seven metro stops from Puerta del Sol).

We invite abstracts of 250 words, plus up to six key words, by 15 June 2025. Decisions to invite candidates will happen shortly after the due date to assure adequate time for participants to make travel plans as needed.

Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 11:50pm
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. A signed self-declaration of originality is required. AI-generated content is strictly prohibited.

 

CfP: Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:56am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

 Call for Journal Articles Now Open  Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration. 

 

Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.

Call for Reviews (JFCIA)

updated: 
Monday, June 9, 2025 - 6:25am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Call for Reviews

 

For 2025 Journal Publication

We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for Volume 4 of our journal to be published in 2025.

 

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