Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, popular culture increasingly served as an intermediary to present and, in some cases, reimagine academia and the academy for mass audiences. This mediation results from an assembly of narratives from various media forms and contexts, both by those inside and outside the academy. The result is a vision of the academy in Western popular culture that is exciting and inviting at turns, but is more frequently shark-like, insular, and intimidating. 

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

Concept Note-

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

Dates: July 16-17, 2025

Venue: University of Bergamo, Italy

(Piazza Rosate 2, Bergamo)

MSA Boston 2025: Modernist Aerial Infrastructure

The Midwest MLA conference will take place this November 14-16 at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, WI.

Literary Influences and Relationships in 19th-Century British Literature

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025. 

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025

The editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite submissions for its upcoming issue that advance scholarly research and critical inquiry in the fields of English language and literature. We seek original contributions that explore a diverse array of topics, aiming to enhance academic discourse and foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

The interest in Slavic fairy tales and fables remains relatively marginal in international Fairy Tale Studies. Influential essays by Vladimir Propp on the Morphology of the Folktale (1928, English translation 1958, Italian translation 1966) and the Historical Roots of the Wondertale (1946, Italian translation 1949) encouraged international interest in Russian folk tales. However, they also contributed to the tendency to perceive these tales primarily as a manifestation of the oral or folkloric tradition—a perspective that prevails up to this day.

This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.

THREAD: Ubiquitous Medieval

SESSION TITLE: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval 

FORMAT: Short Paper