“What’s the Name of the Game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture
“What’s the name of the game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture
19-20th March 2026, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
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“What’s the name of the game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture
19-20th March 2026, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts. Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text. The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences. What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts
This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts. Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text. The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences. What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts
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Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
27-28 November 2025
International Conference
“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)
In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination
Overview
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.2 - 2025 & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The 2025 issues are open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
Guest Reviewers
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.
New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise.
International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology
ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html
*** July Issue***
Scope & Topics
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation
Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India
Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"
Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
GLOTECH 2025 International Conference: Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation
Date: 25th and 26th September 2025
Venue: University of Alicante City Centre Venue
Paper submission deadline: 18th July 2025
Further info:https://web.ua.es/es/dl2/glotech-2025/
Dear colleagues,
International on Information Technology in Education [IJITE]
http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJITE/Home.html
*** July Issue***
Scope
New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025
THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT
International Scholarly Conference
10–12 September 2025
Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland
April 23–25, 2026
PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).
PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.
All disciplines and approaches welcome.
The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.
Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India
Submission Guidelines:
6th International e-Conference
on
Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change
Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
In collaboration with
School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India
&
Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.
The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control.
Concept Note:
4–6 September 2025 | University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
The University of Tokyo will be hosting an international conference, Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World, on 4–6 September 2025. Should you wish to present a paper of 20 minutes at the conference, please submit your proposal by 15 July 2025. Limited travel bursaries are available, particularly for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
【CALL FOR PAPERS】
Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war”.
The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher
CFP for American Literature Association 2026 (Chicago)
American Comparative Literature Association
2006 Annual Meeting
Feb. 26-Mar. 1, 2026
Montreal, CN
Call for Papers:
ACLA 2026 CFP
Baldwin After BLM
If James Baldwin maintained a “ubiquity in the imagination of Black Lives Matter,” as William J. Maxwell and others have observed, then what are we to make of his words and image in a moment that Cedric Johnson and others have argued must be understood as “After Black Lives Matter”?
Special Issue Call for Papers:
Teaching Baldwin / Baldwin as Teacher