Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson’s Life and Her Work

 “It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945” (https://www.moomin.com/en/moomin80/). To celebrate the 80-year-old Moomins, FinnFest USA is organizing a panel on Tove Jansson as part of the Moomin conference theme during this year’s FinnFest in Duluth, Minnesota, July 31–August 3, 2025.

The Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, in collaboration with the PhD program in History and Transmission of Cultural Heritage, is organising the First International Doctoral Conference titled ‘Traces, Reflections, and Signs: Dynamics of Transmission’, which will take place in Naples on September 24th, 25th, and 27th, 2025. The conference is part of the Perspectives and Memories project: a cycle of conferences that can promote discussion on the theme of the transmission of cultural heritage in the humanities, creating a stable space for dialogue that will grow over time.

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

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American Requiem: “Cowboy Carter” and Black Feminist Imaginings of the South-West

Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) mariagiovanna.fusco@univaq.it

Giuseppe Polise (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) giuseppe.polise@univaq.it

The Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM) and the National Endowment for Financial Education are happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Stanford Financial Education Symposium (formerly Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute). It will be held on April 10-11, 2025, during Financial Literacy Month in the U.

Last year marked the centenary of both the Republic of Turkey and James Baldwin, yet Baldwin’s time in Istanbul (1960–71) remains an understudied period in his literary and intellectual life. This panel seeks to explore Baldwin’s "Turkish decade" beyond exile narratives, and focuses on how his engagement with Istanbul’s artistic, literary, and queer communities shaped his work and political thought. How did Baldwin’s experiences in Turkey influence his evolving critique of race, sexuality, and transnational belonging? How might we rethink Baldwin’s literary and activist legacy through the lens of his Istanbul years?

Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color

This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.

Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.

But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.

As we prepare to launch the tenth issue of our academic journal, we invite submissions for a special issue dedicated to the theme of Polyphony.

Why Polyphony? 

Polyphony—the coexistence of multiple, independent voices—offers a compelling lens through which to explore the interconnected perspectives in scholarship and creativity. Ideas do not develop in isolation; they emerge through conversation, contradiction, and resonance across disciplines, generations, and methodologies. Our journal has always nurtured interdisciplinary engagement, and Polyphony allows us to celebrate this fully by embracing the richness of intellectual and artistic dialogue.

On behalf of the English Graduate Association at the University of Idaho, this is a reminder that all abstracts for the 2025 University of Idaho Graduate English Conference are due on February 24, 2025. All graduate students are invited to submit an abstract for work that is relevant to the conference theme, “What Fuels Feeling?: Multidisciplinary Studies of Emotions and the Elements”. While the English Department is hosting this conference, we are seeking work from graduate students of all disciplines. 

We are excited to host Nicole Seymour from California State University as our keynote speaker for this conference. 

 The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting 

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO 

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025 

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)  

Deadline Extended!

Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Chapter Drafts Deadline: December 15, 2025

Essays sought for a peer-reviewed edited collection focused on Brian De Palma’s film, Phantom of the Paradise.

Call for Chapters: Edited collection of essays on Bengali periodicals in the long nineteenth century

The editors, Dr Madhumita Roy and Mr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee, are inviting abstracts for proposed chapters in a collection of essays on Bengali periodicals and the construction(s) of the “bhadrasamaj” in the long nineteenth century.

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

MELUS Call for Papers

Modern Language Association 2026

January 8-11, 2026

Toronto, ON (Canada)

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