60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8-10, 2025.

ICMS, May 8-10, 2025 - Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism(s) – *in person session*

4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment

Paris, France

July 1-4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers

Richard Kopley, Penn State-Dubois: “Tales of a Poe Biographer” 

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University: “Why Read Hawthorne Now?”

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville Campus

October 17 10:00 – 4:00 CDT

October 18 10:00 – 4:00 CDT

Hybrid Conference – In Presence and Online

CFP SUBMISSIONS DUE September 15, 2024 by 11:59pm PST

Sex,Lies & Embodiment

'Phrases I would like to strike from the English language: “speaking my truth” and “my journey.”'

—Katya Zamolodchikova, in conversation with Trixie Mattel, I Like to Watch (2019)

'If gender attributes and acts, the various ways in which a body shows or produces its cultural signification, are performative, then there is no preexisting identity by which an act or attribute might be measured; there would be no true or false, real or distorted acts of gender, and the postulation of a true gender identity would be revealed as a regulatory fiction.'

—Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (London: Routledge, 1999 [1990]), p. 180.

Call for Papers

Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience

Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB)
April 4-5, 2025​

The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to announce its first symposium, Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience, held in collaboration with Dr. Lois Lee of the University of Kent. 

This symposium is a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on April 3rd and April 4th, 2025 (to facilitate participation across time zones).

Call For Papers, Edited Volume

The Intergenerationality of Pentecost: Continuationist Essays

Hello! This is a CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions to potential social and ecological issues like climate change.

Fraught with moral, religious, racial, sexual, and transgressive configurations, the body is a potent site for reflective practices within popular culture. The self-reflexive matrix of popular culture’s representations of human body functions as a site for materializing possibilities of varying forms of living. As a cultural sign, body features in both normative and non-normative debates on identity, selfhood, social relations, power, institutional surveillance and regulation. The practice of its representations, on the other hand, traditionally enables a culture of shared meaning-making which shapes how an individual perceives, thinks, feels, and acts amidst the production and circulation of discourses.

Representation of Place in Literature and Culture: Global Perspectives

(An Edited Book-Volume)

Concept Note

The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

The East Asian Network for the Academic Study of Esotericism (EANASE) will hold its second international conference on November 30 (Sat.) and December 1 (Sunday). The conference will be online, but we offer the possibility of a small on-site section for those who are able to come to Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan).

This conference aims to explore how the region once referred to as the “Far East” has influenced and shaped various esoteric and spiritual visions of history, and conversely, how fantastical views of the past were developed within and impacted different areas of East Asia.

Call for Chapters

Screening Diasporas in the Pacific:Voices, Narratives and Mobilities

Editors:

A/Prof Arezou Zalipour and Dr Duncan Caillard

Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa New Zealand 

Timeline/Workflow:

Proposal Submission Deadline: September 30th 2024

Notification of Acceptance: October 15th 2024

Full Chapter Submission Deadline: January 31st 2024

Call for Papers, Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Transatlantic Literature for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal electronically by November 1, 2024, at www.cea-web.org