We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.

Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:

The history of literature is also the history of the evolution of the technologies used to produce, distribute, and consume it. The appearance of new technologies and media affecting traditional understandings of reading and of the object “book” is welcomed by some as the sign of literature’s inherent vitality and innovation, and perceived by others as a threat. Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues that the anxieties generated by the emergence of new digital technologies since the postwar era are rooted in the conception of the book as a symbol of a vestigial order of which literary critics and scholars consider themselves masters and protectors.

Journalism and Mass Communication Department of Sister Nivedita University, based out of Kolkata, has put up this inter-disciplinary theme to invite research papers/articles from faculties, researchers, professionals, technocrats, and industry experts from the fields of Mass Communication, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, English and Cultural Studies to discuss the role of media in representing the marginal voice in the contemporary society, its changing narratives and its effects on human lives. General outlines have been given above, with papers invited on topics and realms on the broader understanding of the theme and beyond the mentioned topics.

TRACKS

Brenna Duperron and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette are continuing to build the 'Indigenous turn' with some exciting panels for the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14-16, 2026), which include:

• “The Glo(cal) Middle Ages on Turtle Island” (hybrid panel);
• and “Settler Medievalism: Ideology and Practice” (hybrid panel).

Abstract submissions due September 15, 2025 to the ICMS Confex site:

https://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/prelim.cgi

Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal will host our 2026 conference on the theme of 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century.' The conference will take place in-person at the University of Stirling on 15th January, with keynote speaker Dr. Michael Shaw.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Considering Empathy: Critical Approaches across Disciplines

Co-edited by Diana Ashe and Beverley McGuire (UNCW) 

Project Description

We invite contributions for an edited collection addressing the current debate over the role and meaning of empathy in contemporary life. While empathy was once studied primarily by psychologists and ethicists, societal shifts and thought leaders have brought empathy to the foreground of fields like politics, technology, public health, rhetoric, environmental studies, business, international studies, sociology, literary and language studies, education, and more. 

Dear colleagues,We are delighted to invite proposals for the Ninth International Conference on Literary Juvenilia, to be held at Valparaiso University from April 16–18, 2026. This year’s theme, Youth Writers and Their Worlds, calls on scholars to explore the various ways young people have imagined, questioned, and shaped their worlds through writing.We welcome papers that engage with youth-authored texts—published or private, written or visual—and encourage approaches that foreground the material, cultural, and imaginative contexts of juvenile literary and cultural production. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Medievalisms in Time and Space

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Fully Online

November 14th and 15th, 2025

Hosted by Anita Obermeier at the University of New Mexico

We welcome submissions considering aspects of Medievalisms in Time (any temporalities or relationships between them) and Space (inner spaces, Outer Space and outer spaces, contested spaces, geographies real and imagined, trans-temporalities); Trans-medievalisms of all kinds (such as transgender medievalisms, transformative medievalisms, transgressive medievalisms).

The editorial staff of Penumbra is excited to announce our journal’s first annual chap book competition for poets seeking to publish a collection of original works while enjoying some friendly literary rivalry. Contest winners will receive a cash prize and have their collection of poems published in a unique and beautifully crafted chap book manufactured by Penumbra Press. We are therefore soliciting submissions from poets of all backgrounds and levels of experience. Even if you’ve never published a poem before, we are eager for the opportunity to consider your work!

Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026

The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society is pleased to announce the Mary Jacobs Memorial Essay Prize 2026. The aim of the Prize is to encourage further study of the writings of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in honour of the distinguished work of Dr Mary Jacobs.

Call for Panelists: “Topics in Amateur Surveillance: Histories, Technologies, Usages

It is our conviction that existing models of criticism privilege and sustain prevailing hegemonies—and thus that critical form is in urgent need of intervention and innovation.

   — Jenny Cookson and Emma Gomis

This panel explores the potential convergences between 1960s psychedelia and medieval material culture, including surreal imagery, animation, bright colors, and the cross-pollination of disparate media attempting to evoke a hallucinogenic or heightened response in the viewer. 

With the theme of (Re)generation in mind, this roundtable explores 21st-century cultural products created by women in Transatlantic and Latinx contexts. The works of prominent authors and filmmakers of our era (María Fernanda Ampuero, Liliana Colanzi, Mariana Enríquez, Belén Gopegui, Angélica Gorodischer, Rita Indiana, Carmen Maria Machado, Sara Mesa, Guadalupe Nettel, Mónica Ojeda, Anita Rocha da Silveira, Samatha Schweblin, to name a few...) reveal that women are still marginalized and disregarded within their societies. Still, despite the unsettling tone that often characterizes these works, they also offer bridges to more equitable realities made possible by powerful feminist coalitions and unconventional alliances.

Hemingway in Toronto

July 20-25 2026 | Toronto, Canada

The Hemingway Society invites proposals for the 21st International Hemingway Conference, exploring Hemingway’s ties to Toronto and his broader literary legacy.

Toronto was a pivotal stop in Hemingway’s early career—a place where he honed his craft as a journalist, earned his first bylines at The Toronto Star, and briefly settled to welcome his first child in 1923. The 2026 conference offers an opportunity to revisit these formative years and discuss Hemingway’s impact from multiple perspectives.

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia)

May 30th, 2026 (Saturday).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between July 7th, 2025, and October 15th, 2025.

Please include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.

Approved abstracts will be informed by December 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Man-Hating in Cinema, Literature, Media, and Society  Editors Gilad Padva, scholar in cinema, culture, men's studies, and queer theory Yair Koren Maimon, Chair of the Department of Literature, GordonAcademic College When a legitimate and crucial criticism of patriarchy is transformedinto a bigoted, ruthless misandry/man-hating? When resistance toandrocentric systems that focus on men's interests stimulatesgynocentric attitudes that disrespect, misrepresent, and diminish men'shuman dignity? How does resistance to the objectification of women'sbodies involve mocking and grotesque representations of men's bodiesand, particularly, their genitalia?

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Scope

Joan of Arc has long been a muse to musicians, inspiring operas (Verdi, Tchaikovsky) musicals (Goodtime Charley) sung mystery plays (Claudel & Honneger), ballads (Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire) and pop culture parodies such as the rap battle between Miley Cyrus and the Maid. Her story has also been powerfully related en muet in early silent films. This panel investigates the “sound effects” of Joan’s story, considering the roles of music, speech, silence, voices, and voiceover.

Questions may be directed to panel organizers Tara Smithson (tsmithson@saintmarys.edu) and Scott Manning (smanning@gmail.com).

The conference is co-organized by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Samarkand State University "Sharof Rashidov" and Bukhara State University.
The main goal of the international forum is to give a new impetus to the development of science and education through a new reading of the scientific heritage of ancient philosophical treatises from the perspective of modern discussions and dialogue between the East and the West.
Main thematic areas:
1. Historical context and cultural influences - Eastern and Western perceptions
2. Contemporary problems and future prospects. East-West interdisciplinary approaches.
3. Classification of sciences - synergy of scientific knowledge

Multiethnic literature of the United States has a history of rethinking, reimagining, and redefining race and racism through the study of non-white and ethnic Euro-American literature, narratives, and experiences. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, ethnic American writers have written on what seemed to have been bleak, harsh, dystopian presents, and even apocalyptic futures. Writers who write of their personal, communal, or cultural lived experiences that are outside the norms of the dominant society know and understand that a harsh past and present can still bring about renewal and a bright future. And they have used their voices to represent a broad array of experiences in the U.S.

Call For Papers (CFP):  

The 2025 GMDA Conference on Academic Freedom/Unfreedom in the United States

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This session invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?

This session is part of NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention, March 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA.