The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two panels to be presented at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 25-28 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts.

The society seeks papers on the topic of mental illness and mental health in early national and antebellum America. We welcome proposals that address Catharine Maria Sedgwick's own works (including her published works, her letters and journals, and her manuscript autobiography) or writings by her contemporaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Suggested topics might include (but are by no means limited to):

Call for Papers: The Willa Cather Foundation seeks proposals for both a roundtable and a panel at the 34th annual conference of the American Literature Association, held in Boston from May 25-28, 2023.

The roundtable, “Contextualizing Willa Cather,” will be comprised of either four or five brief (8-10 minute) presentations dealing with some aspect of Cather’s life or work. There will be time after the presentations and before the Q&A for participants to respond to one another’s work. Please note that the rules of ALA permit presenters to participate in a roundtable in addition to giving a paper.

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting a panel on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.

The conference will take place in Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2023. 

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by Friday, January 6, 2023.

The third Summer School of the ReportAGES research project, a five-day graduate course for Master’s and PhD students – throughout Europe and, potentially, South Africa – of Journalism, Communications, Media Studies, English, German, or French Literature, Cultural Studies or Government Policy, will explore how historical trends in narrative literary journalism in France, Germany, England and the Netherlands from the Anglo-Boer War to post apartheid reshaped the media landscape of each country, distinguishing a European development of the genre not just from its Anglo-American cousins but also from each other.

Submit by 1/15/2023

The Center for the Study of Law and Religion (CSLR) at Emory University, in partnership with the Indigenous Values Initiative (IVI), Syracuse University, and Canopy Forum, seeks short articles and multimedia submissions marking the 200th Anniversary of Johnson v. M’Intosh, 21 U.S. 543 (1823).

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online open access journal of the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently launching a call for papers and critical reviews for its second issue of its Series II–Winter 2022/23, with the deadline of January 31st.
Our first issue, published in the Summer of 2022, gathered works from authors who approached the topic of ‘shadows’ in a critical, innovative, and interdisciplinary manner. Using the same criteria, we hereby launch a new call for papers for our second number. This number will be published in the Winter of 2022/23, and it is focused on the topic of ‘light’.

Negation | Call for papers
Graduate student conference, dept. of German Studies, Brown University | Feb. 17 & 18, 2023 | in person

What “no” does, is not nothing. This proposition implies that we have understood what it is to say no, that its effects are predictable, and that it is involved with “doing,” with “being,” and with “things.” It also asks us to answer the question: what is “not-no,” and what is “yes”? Negation is not only not- positing, but, depending on the thinker, it is the engine of history, the enigma of the will, the guarantor or violator of being, the weapon of oppression, the foothold of theology, the urgent task of language.

In July 2022, some meteorologists renamed the most extreme of the heat waves with the name of "Apocalypse 4800", in reference to the exceptional temperatures recorded at high altitudes and the consequent rise of the freezing level at the summit of Monte Bianco (4800 meters). Net of a rhetoric rooted in a series of contradictory emotions – that place human subject between «fear and domination, veneration and control» (Scaffai 2016) towards nature – it is undeniable how the current climate crisis leads us to reflect on the precarious equilibrium of the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002). But in becoming culturally dominant (Benedetti 2021), the Anthropocene raises further questions about the role of literature and storytelling in a broader sense.

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture seeks reviews of recent books, films, television series, musical recordings, theatrical performances, art exhibitions and other media that make a queer contribution to media and popular culture and/or to academic scholarship on media and popular culture.

The appropriate length of a review will depend on the complexity and size of work under review, but will typically run from 1000 to 2500 words.

If you are interested in writing a review for QSMPA,, please send a CV and letter of interest, including mention of your areas of research and teaching to aburger@culver.edu with the subject line: QSMPC Reviewer database.

The Post-Magical Realist Worlds research group of Canadian Comparative Literature Association invites submissions to our session “Post-Magical Realist Worlds: Contemporary Postcolonial Storytelling Modes, Critiques, and Perspectives” for the coming CCLA congress 2023. We welcome critical voices and diverse perspectives, recognizing the multiple ways magical realism has been developed or reused globally and various reactions to its heritage in Latin American countries connected to its initial boom and elsewhere in world. This year our particular focus is on the 2023 CCLA congress theme of Reckonings and Re-imaginings in Comparative Literature.

Call for Papers 2023:

Greening the Medical Humanities: The Environment and the Body in Conversation

The PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its seventh edition ‘Greening the Medical Humanities: The Environment and the Body in Conversation’. we welcome original articles and book reviews that engage with any aspect and interpretation of this theme.

 A Science fiction panel  for the “Voices, Sounds, Noises, Silences” 2023 AFEA Conference

(French Association of North American Studies)

 University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, 24-26 May

” In space no one can hear you scream“, or can they? »

DANIÈLE ANDRÉ AND GWENTHALYN ENGÉLIBERT

LA ROCHELLE UNIVERSITY — UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN BRITTANY

Please submit Abstracts (200 words) by 15 January 2023, and full articles by 15 April 2023.

Articles received will be peer reviewed and selected for publication by a leading International academic publisher. Please send articles to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu, and to Dr Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 6,000 words long. They should have a title, an abstract of 200 words, 5 keywords, authors' bio and present affiliation in 130 words, and a Works Cited.

Submission Deadline: March 3, 2023
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The Pennsylvania State University invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 19–23, 2023. SI2023, co-directed by Nicolai Volland (Penn State) and Leo Ching (Duke), will focus on the topic of “Archipelagic Asias.”