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Off of the Printed Prose Page: Multimodal Medievalisms (A Paper Session)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:51am
Tales after Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 5, 2025

ICMS 2026, Session 7569

While the pop culture landscape of books and films often borrow from and are inspired by "the medieval period"–as well as frequently disseminated, propagated, and influenced by neo-medievalist works such as those by Martin, Jordan, Sanderson, and Hobb–relatively little discourse focuses on how other types of contemporary works pull from the same and/or similar influences. With the increasing popularity of medievalism in games, music, etc., this paper panel seeks to prompt, deepen, and explore the study and discussion of the less commonly talked about–yet no less consumed–works and how they look to and use popular mis/understandings of the medieval.

Adaptations of Tolkien: Medieval Traces in Movies, Games and Other Transmedial Texts

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:51am
Tales after Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

ICMS 2026, Session 7564

This roundtable explores enduring medieval influences in adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's works across various media, including films and television, table-top and video games, and other transmedial texts. Roundtable panelists will examine how Tolkien's deep engagement with medieval literature, history, and mythology continues to shape modern interpretations, from the visual aesthetics and world-building in cinematic adaptations to the narrative structures and mechanics in interactive games and other media. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the discussion will address ways medieval motifs are preserved, altered, or reimagined in these adaptations, considering both creative intentions and audience reception.

"Voices in Constraint, Languages in Confinement"

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 9:47am
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

 

Northeast Modern Language Association 57th Annual Convention 2026

March 5-8, 2026 Pittsburgh, PA

"Voices in Constraint, Languages in Confinement"

 

This panel explores how language restrictions operate across spatial, social, and systemic boundaries, and defines who can speak, what can be spoken, and where. It invites abstracts that examine the forms and consequences of such restrictions. Submissions may address suppressed or minoritized languages, restricted expressions, and the reception of silenced voices in public and private life.

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 6:05am
Jonas Müller-Laackman; Victoria Mummelthei / c:hum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:

Twainian Regeneration: Adaptations of the Works, Life, and Legacy of Mark Twain (NeMLA Session 21918)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 4:11pm
57th Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This session is sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America.

 

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1935-1910) achieved lasting fame as Mark Twain, an identity that served as both his pen name and the persona he cultivated for the public. Twain’s writings and his distinctive character have dispersed across time and space, and the resulting Twainian tradition incorporates these elements in many ways.

 

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 3:43pm
Case Western Reserve Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium

Case Western Reserve University 

Friday, October 31, 2025

 

Keynote Speaker: Roland Greene, Stanford University

GLOTECH 2025 International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - 7:32am
Digital Language Learning (DL2)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

***Submission deadline extended to July 25, 2025***

GLOTECH 2025 International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation

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"Knowledge from the Cracks"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:43pm
Patience Odeh/ University of Connecticut
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

SAMLA 97: Knowledges

Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025 | Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center

Knowledge from the cracks

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pm
Robin Throne, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution

The history of gender discrimination and persecution is as ancient as human civilization itself, rooted in societal structures, cultural norms, and institutional practices that have perpetuated inequality. This critical examination seeks to uncover the deeply entrenched dynamics of gender-based oppression, its evolution across epochs, and the persistent struggle for equality.

See for details and submission https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/9088

CFP: BROLLY (peer-reviewed journal, London, UK) - [Humanities]

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pm
London Academic Publishing (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences

(London Academic Publishing, UK)

 

Vol. 6, No. 2, August 2025 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2025

 

No processing or publication fees. Peer-reviewed.

#OpenAccess

 

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

 

Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk

REVISED DEADLINE Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 4:15am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

(REVISED DEADLINE)

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Speical issue of Tropos on Mimetic Studies. New Steps for the Mimetic TUrn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 2:54am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu). 

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture: Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/

Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025

 

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
Benoît Loiseau (NYU)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France2026 NeMLA ConventionMarch 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B.

"Freedom and Authenticity" 7th International Interdiciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:29pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 11-12 August 2025

 

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Professor Ryan Habermeyer -  Salisbury University, USA

CFP: 

(Re)Generating the Digital Humanity Through Human–AI Collaboration

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:21pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 30, 2025

In light of this year’s conference theme of regeneration—with its emphasis on engagement, collaboration, and the creation of powerful new entities—this roundtable explores how the humanities might regenerate through human–AI collaboration. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into writing studies and classroom practices, human–AI teaming models (Gupta & Shivers-McNair; McKee & Porter; Knowles & Pedersen; Beddington et al.) have shown potential for positive outcomes in writing pedagogy. At the same time, they raise critical questions about voice (Tan et al.; Grey), the complexity of teacher labor (Ghafouri et al.), and agency issue (Yang), prompting us to reflect on what it truly means to co-generate/create with a machine.

Critical Intersex Futures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:20pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

This hybrid panel will consider interdisciplinary work in the slowly expanding field of critical intersex studies.

Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:19pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.

REMINDER: DEADLINE EXTENDED: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:07pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

NEW Deadline: July 25, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:50am
Ruma Sinha/Rider University and Billie Thoidingjam Guarino/Saint Anselm College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

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

updated: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 12:06pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 29, 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.

Teaching Kate Chopin

updated: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 7:48am
Heather Ostman & Quinn Moyer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Kate Chopin in the Classroom

 

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

 

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.

 

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