(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia)

May 30th, 2026 (Saturday).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between July 7th, 2025, and October 15th, 2025.

Please include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.

Approved abstracts will be informed by December 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society  Editors Gilad Padva, scholar in cinema, culture, men's studies, and queer theory Yair Koren Maimon, Chair of the Department of Literature, GordonAcademic College When a legitimate and crucial criticism of patriarchy is transformedinto a bigoted, ruthless misandry/man-hating? When resistance toandrocentric systems that focus on men's interests stimulatesgynocentric attitudes that disrespect, misrepresent, and diminish men'shuman dignity? How does resistance to the objectification of women'sbodies involve mocking and grotesque representations of men's bodiesand, particularly, their genitalia?

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Scope

Joan of Arc has long been a muse to musicians, inspiring operas (Verdi, Tchaikovsky) musicals (Goodtime Charley) sung mystery plays (Claudel & Honneger), ballads (Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire) and pop culture parodies such as the rap battle between Miley Cyrus and the Maid. Her story has also been powerfully related en muet in early silent films. This panel investigates the “sound effects” of Joan’s story, considering the roles of music, speech, silence, voices, and voiceover.

Questions may be directed to panel organizers Tara Smithson (tsmithson@saintmarys.edu) and Scott Manning (smanning@gmail.com).

The conference is co-organized by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Samarkand State University "Sharof Rashidov" and Bukhara State University.
The main goal of the international forum is to give a new impetus to the development of science and education through a new reading of the scientific heritage of ancient philosophical treatises from the perspective of modern discussions and dialogue between the East and the West.
Main thematic areas:
1. Historical context and cultural influences - Eastern and Western perceptions
2. Contemporary problems and future prospects. East-West interdisciplinary approaches.
3. Classification of sciences - synergy of scientific knowledge

Multiethnic literature of the United States has a history of rethinking, reimagining, and redefining race and racism through the study of non-white and ethnic Euro-American literature, narratives, and experiences. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ethnic American writers have written on what seemed to have been bleak, harsh, dystopian presents, and even apocalyptic futures. Writers who write of their personal, communal, or cultural lived experiences that are outside the norms of the dominant society know and understand that a harsh past and present can still bring about renewal and a bright future. And they have used their voices to represent a broad array of experiences in the U.S.

Call For Papers (CFP):  

The 2025 GMDA Conference on Academic Freedom/Unfreedom in the United States

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This session invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?

This session is part of NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hobhouse's career was ultimately marked by his election as a Fellow of the British Academy a hundred years ago, in 1925.Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929) was an extremely dynamic scholar and journalist, who wrote prolifically on a wide variety of subjects that were invariably closely related to the political and social reality of his time. Politics and sociology were, in fact, the two great fields that inspired most of the author's writings. Besides being a vigorous political thinker, Hobhouse was also one of the founding fathers of sociology in England and held the first Professorship of this discipline in the country. In fact, within the ideological sphere, L. T.

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy invites submissions for its 2026 issue (no. 11). This open call welcomes contributions on any topic within the purview of American Studies, with no thematic restrictions.

JAm It! is an annual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing innovative scholarship in American Studies. We encourage submissions across diverse critical perspectives, including but not limited to literature, cultural studies, history, sociolinguistics, political science, and pedagogy. We especially welcome transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric approaches, as well as scholarly work that fosters dialogues between European and non-European perspectives on North American culture. 

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

September 25 – 28, 2025
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

Call for Chapter Proposals
for Essay Collection

How Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture

Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language

“Time and Disability in Literature”

Guest Edited by Adam Barrows, Professor of English, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canda)

The Epoch of the Hoax: Deception and Dis/Trust in 19th-Century America

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, December 12-13, 2025

Call for Papers

Medievalisms in Time and Space

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Fully Online

November 14th and 15th, 2025

Hosted by Anita Obermeier at the University of New Mexico

We welcome submissions considering aspects of Medievalisms in Time (any temporalities or relationships between them) and Space (inner spaces, Outer Space and outer spaces, contested spaces, geographies real and imagined, trans-temporalities); Trans-medievalisms of all kinds (such as transgender medievalisms, transformative medievalisms, transgressive medievalisms).

Scholars, authors, and related professionals are invited to submit chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited volume interpreting Collins’ two Hunger Games “prequel” novels from a wide array of educational perspectives and disciplinary lenses. Following immediately on the heels of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Scholastic Publishing most recently shocked the Hunger Games fandom with the release of a second prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping (2025), to widely positive acclaim.

Photography / Intensity / Measure

Call for Book Chapters

Questions of measurement, and how it shapes or is problematized by photography, have become increasingly important in recent years. This has been provoked by the development and consolidation of digital networked imaging technologies, the massive expansion of social media, advances in machine learning, the sheer scale of image datasets, and the development of AI imaging platforms. Novel forms such as Point Cloud, Giga-pixel and Light-Field imaging, to mention just a few, have challenged accepted ideas of measure and how they structure the visual.

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

Modernism upturned the critical as well as the artistic conventions, spanning the
period from the last quarter of the 19th century in France and from 1890 in Great Britain and
Germany to the start of the Second World War. The feeling that a new start ought to be made,
in politics and society as much as in art, was accentuated by the War and its immediate
aftermath. In the opening phase of the modern movement the centre was Europe. Partly as a
result of the political disorder and the discarding of Modernism by the Bolshevik regime in
the Soviet Union, it tended to move westward; and America’s social and technological
modernity also matched the art’s novelty. We are still influenced by modernism, and

Black literatures of African and African American authors set in the twentieth century share cross-cultural realities. These continental literatures have explored topics such as segregation, colonialism, post-colonial disillusionment, civil and political underrepresentation, migration, economic recession, capitalism, racism, double consciousness, and others. This panel seeks essays that explore, using a comparative lens, a new perspective of the connections between these two continental Black authors, cultures, and topics.

Submit an abstract between 200-300 words and a 100-word bio through the CFP link. View Session

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning
Call for Chapter Proposals (Updated)

Proposal Submission Deadline: Aug. 31, 2025

Editor: Weixiao Wei
Contact: wwei21@CougarNet.UH.EDU

We are pleased to announce that we have recruited some proposals for The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning. To further strengthen the volume, we are now seeking additional contributions in two critical and rapidly evolving areas within the intersection of artificial intelligence and language education.

CFP: Media Futures

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 98 (to be published Fall 2026)