Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality

 Panel on Conrad's sharp critique of the imperial logics of individualism and appropriation in the global south, focusing on that author’s anti-colonial depiction of non-Western human entanglements and kinships. 300wd proposals, short bio.

 Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

Alexia Hannis, University of Toronto < alexia.hannis@utoronto.ca >

For a volume in the Genre Fiction and Film Companion series published by Peter Lang Oxford, we solicit papers on the topic of Neo-Victorian Gothic literature and film adaptation in the twenty-first century.

Call for papers for a collective volume

In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).

We invite abstracts for a Special Session (non-guaranteed) at the MLA Convention to be held in Toronto, Canada, from January 8-11, 2026.

Titlle: Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination

This special session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean lens. Proposals investigating the multifaceted dimensions of water and waterscapes  in literary texts, films, television series, comics, theatrical performances are welcome.

A 250-word abstract along with a 100-word bio.

In our daily lives, we frequently encounter terms like "culture," "cultured," "high-cultured," "low-cultured," and "uncultured." We often hastily label individuals based on their appearance or social status; for instance, a shabbily dressed person or a homeless individual might be instantly deemed "uncultured." Certain activities, such as traditional children's games like using a gulti (slingshot) to collect mangoes, playing hopscotch, or spinning tops, are sometimes dismissively categorized as pastimes of the chotolok or lower classes.

“The desire for transcendence is the longing for something that breaks this cycle of means and ends and enables us to escape the everydayness of the everyday.”

— John Lachs, “Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life” (1997) 

Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies for MLA 2026 in Toronto (Jan. 8-11). It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025.

We are excited to announce the call for proposals for Volume 32 of The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, which will be published by the end of 2025. The Grove is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in the English language, literature, and culture.

We welcome original research articles, reviews, and literary contributions on a wide range of topics within English Studies, including but not limited to:

Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.

Submission Guidelines:

Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)

Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.

The issue 27 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.

Submission Guidelines

Literature and Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a fraught word in literary studies. As a regime of classification descended from the Euro-American scientific tradition, taxonomy encourages the organization of biological life on earth based on hard distinctions or similarities between groups. This practice appears to endorse essentialist and deterministic paradigms that scholars in literary and cultural studies typically eschew—and for good reason. Taxonomic modes of thinking are allied with racial, medical, and sexual ideologies that have fueled historical and contemporary efforts to police the categories of race, gender, ability, and desire.

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.