4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com 

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025. 

What can be discovered between spaces?

Liminal spaces, margins, and thresholds offer us exciting opportunities to explore the past and our own perceptions. This conference aims to open discussion on under-represented or under-discussed topics to further analyse what we accept as “truth”. We will focus on the northern parts of the world specifically, as the northern regions were viewed as remote and uninhabitable. Medieval and Early Modern sources suggest that the further north you go, the more monstrous the world becomes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Published March 10, 2025: Anarchy & Harmony

Interdiscplinary journal edicated to the arts of folklore and myth.

To contact the editors and to submit your work to Coreopsis Journal, please write to: 

“submissions” coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com Our submission guidelines are here: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions  

Topics to consider:

The Department of English, Gauhati University, in collaboration with IACLALS, is happy to announce the fourth and final seminar of the series International Seminars on Contemporary South Asian Fictions in English. This time the focus is on literatures in English of and from the three nations- Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh- and the idea is to encourage an inter-/multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on literary and cinematic texts along with other art forms in understanding their contexts, cultural discourses, myths and legends.

What does it mean to “feel formal,” and what does it mean to write and speak about different forms of feeling in the first place? Does it even make sense to speak of form in relation to feeling?

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University is pleased to announce the call for papers for the upcoming graduate conference, “Entre lugares,” which will be held at Yale University on Friday April 4th and Saturday April 5th, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the multifaceted notion of liminality as it relates to spaces, identities, languages, temporalities, and literary genres.

The times, they are a changing! AI, book bans, changes in student populations, the rise of the neoliberal university, and more are changing how we engage with children's literature in the classroom. With all these changes, what is it about time we talk about?

An Archaeology of the Gaze
Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality

Anyone familiar with the war iconography of ancient sovereigns—from the Assyrian palaces and temples of Ramses II to Trajan’s Column—would not be surprised by these powers' claims to legitimate violence. It was entirely endorsed by the sovereign, reducing the victims of the conquering arm to mere foils for the political power asserting itself through force. In stark contrast, the photographs that journalists share from contemporary conflicts are often characterized by a specific focus on the victims, whose suffering has become central to the interpretation of violence.

We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.

Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher

identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to

explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or

cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional

paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a

rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western

paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways

Deadline: December 20, 2024

Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu)

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Real and Imagined Spaces in Film (Call for papers) 

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 

May 29-30, 2025 

https://eventos.unizar.es/126084/detail/real-and-imagined-spaces-in-film...

Plenary Speaker:Áine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University) 

Deadline for abstract submission: January 27th, 2025

Conference title, organization name: The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society, Istanbul Bilgi University.

Conference date and location: April 26th, 2025 at Santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall.

Contact email: literatureandcensorship2025@gmail.com

The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society