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Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference at Al Al-Bayt University, 8-9 April 2025
Languages in the Digital World
As part of this conference, several discussion topics will be open to contributors. The following list is not exhaustive, but its main axes will allow for the identification of assessments, the evaluation of ongoing data, and the outlining of perspectives for the future.
In order to provide the broadest possible picture of the multiple dimensions of the interaction between living languages and the digital world, the debates will focus on these areas, which present as many opportunities as challenges for our societies.
The “Hotels, Inns and Motels” International Conference in Toulouse invites scholars to reflect upon the way places of temporary hospitality have structured space and displacements in English-speaking countries and therefore reveal the stakes and forms of hospitality. From medieval inns to the motel chains dotting the endless US interstate landscapes, these spaces offer a temporary home to their dwellers, and perform commercial, social, political and symbolic functions that so far have not been studied thoroughly.
The aim of the conference is to explore how these places, and the people who designed them, work or live there, can reflect or create conceptions of hospitality that provide insight into a given society or a period.
Readers Needed for “Author Meets Readers” Roundtable
American Studies Association Conference
November 20th-23rd
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Email me if you’re interested in discussing my forthcoming book, That Book is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing. It will be published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and distributed by Penguin Random House on August 12th, 2025. I will send you an advance reader copy in March.
Please email me by January 31st if you’re interested.
Laughter and Medicine
We invite proposals for contributions to an edited volume exploring the interfaces between laughter and medicine. Developing from a British Academy/Wellcome Trust-funded conference held at the University of Birmingham in November 2024, this volume will put the medical humanities in dialogue with healthcare provision and the medical sciences so as to bridge the divides between the clinic, the laboratory, cultural history, literature, and the arts in Western cultures from the classical period to the present day.
Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies invites scholarly contributions that delve into the complex and dynamic relationships between memory, materiality, and affect in literary and cultural studies. This annual issue seeks to unravel the intricate ways in which memory is constructed, mediated, and transformed through material objects, spatial configurations, and emotional experiences.
The Nagoya Gifu Chapter of JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) is seeking papers on EFL (English as a foreign language) topics. We are a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal.
See past issues of our journal here:
https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...
See the submission guidelines page and link for submissions here:
https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-...
Issue 40 - Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
Deadline: Submissions due by March 1, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Retelling and Representation in the Ramakatha Tradition: Critical Perspectives
[ISBN: 978-81-952119-4-4]
Editor: Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Assistant Professor of English, SDM Govt PG College, Doiwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Manuscripts in MS Word (4,000–8,000 words) adhering to MLA 9th edition formatting guidelines should be sent to pallavi.engdhe@gmail.com by 31 December 2024.
“Abrahamic Religions and Religious Others” - Call for Papers
International Network for Interreligious Research and Education |
Date: July 21–25, 2024
Location: Katholische Akademie Berlin
Creativitas, an annual online double-blind peer-reviewed journal in English Studies, is extending an invitation to distinguished scholars, researchers, and academics to join our growing editorial community as reviewers. Published on a yearly basis, our journal is committed to advancing critical scholarship in literary studies through rigorous academic discourse and interdisciplinary exploration.
Journal Overview
Latinx Fandoms
Editor: Frederick Luis Aldama
Despite the recent boom in fan studies scholarship—a field that has traditionally provided space for those deemed academically undisciplined—significant gaps remain in our understanding of the cultural impact of Latinx fan communities and scenes. With Latinx Fandoms I hope to address this by bringing together the work of extraordinary scholars to highlight Latinx practices, knowledges, and cultural innovations as fans, fandoms, and collective shapers of scenes.
“Teaching Women Writers’ Edited Texts:
New Pedagogical Approaches to Feminist, Anti-Racist Recovery Work”
sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society
American Literature Association Conference | May 21–24, 2025, Boston
The history of the Black Atlantic is rife with narratives of leaving and returns that can prove destabilizing factors, regarding identity and culture. Yet, it is in these stories, that a more complete image of the complexities of the lives of the people who traverse(d) the Black Atlantic becomes clearer. The literature of the men and women whose texts engage the 500-year history of the Black Atlantic narrative work to form a more nuanced image of Black life in the US, Caribbean, and Europe. In doing so, many of these works demonstrate the influence of African culture on members of the Diaspora through the inclusion of African spirituality in the texts.
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.
We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Please submit one-page abstracts to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.
American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA
The American Religion and Literature Society welcomes proposals for one guaranteed, open-topic panel at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.
We invite presentations on any topic related to the intersection of religion and literature. Papers on any time period, genre, and religious tradition are welcome.
Please submit one-page abstracts to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.
The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for papers for our Summer 2025 issue.
Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.
If you would like to submit a paper for consideration, please go to: https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors
If you would like to propose a paper for this issue, please send an abstract, your CV, and a cover letter to citl@bu.edu no later than 15 January 2025.
Call for additional contributions to volume
Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures:
History, Representation, Diversity
(under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025
First drafts: 31 March 2025
Submission of manuscript: 1 July 2025
Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY
Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone
Dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (printemps/été 2026)
dirigé par Sandrine Duval, Nicole Nolette et Jimmy Thibeault
Un appel à articles est lancé pour un dossier thématique de la revue Nouvelles études francophones (NÉF) sur le sujet de “Théâtre et femmes au Québec et au Canada francophone.”
Conference online: 27-28 February 2025
CFP:
Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s way of seeing the world.
de genere - Journal of literary, postcolonial and gender studies
Special issue:
Gender and Work in Literature and the Arts at the Turn of the 20th Century: A Theoretical and Historical Inquiry
Editors for this issue: Federico Bellini (Catholic University of Milan), Lisa Marchi (University of Trento)
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.
IAAS Annual Conference
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
24-26 April 2025
Conference Theme: “We the People”
CALL FOR PAPERS
“It is certain in Theory, that the only moral Foundation of Government is the Consent of the People. But to what an Extent Shall We carry this Principle?”—John Adams, 1776
Intraspection publishes academic work that exhibits compelling prose, captivating arguments,
and rhetorical flair. The journal seeks to meld academic writing with evolving forms and writing
styles. Intraspection invites submissions that explore and inquire in ways that mesh with our aim
to blend scholarship and creativity, emphasizing style and rhetorical flair to highlight content and
the development of provocative ideas.
Quand le silence devient parole : l’expression du non-dit dans les productions littéraires et culturelles francophones
Colloque annuel des étudiant.e.s de maîtrise et de doctorat en études françaises et francophones
Université McMaster
Hamilton, Ontario
Les 15 et 16 mai 2025
New Perspectives on Creature Features
Edited by
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
The Gore Gore Film Book
Edited by
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Kevin Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University)
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and domain experts to exchange knowledge, address challenges, and outline future directions for developing explainable, interpretable, and transparent AI systems. It focuses on advancing Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by incorporating knowledge and semantics as core components. Contributions will address “demystifying the black-box” nature of AI and tailoring explanations to diverse user expertise levels, supporting equitable and fair decision-making for long-term sustainability. The workshop seeks to overcome the challenges of embedding semantic abstractions into intelligent information systems.
Call for Conference Papers: All Together Different: Reading Willa Cather Across Regions
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 25-27, 2025
Conference Co-Directors: Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University