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CFP: „DISABILITY IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH NARRATIVES“ IN: JAHRBUCH FÜR INTERNATIONALE GERMANISTIK (PETER LANG VERLAG)

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Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:39pm
Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI), invites scholarly contributions for a special issue on Disability in German and English Narratives.

This volume seeks to explore the literary, cultural, and discursive representations of disability in German- and English-language literatures. We welcome contributions that examine how disability is portrayed, constructed, and negotiated in fictional and non-fictional texts across time periods—from early modern literature to contemporary works.

Possible areas of focus include but are not limited to:

New Approaches to the New Negro for Boston's MSA Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:37pm
Martha H. Patterson, McKendree University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

On the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke's New Negro anthology, this panel seeks presenters eager to discuss what they see as new trends in New Negro research.  Possibilities include the New Negro in international, regional, or local contexts; the New Negro in newspapers, magazines, college yearbooks and other digitized sources; the New Negro on the move, re-envisioned to meet the needs of different socio-political groups; the New Negro in literature (especially in literature relatively new to the canon); the New Negro is conjunction with other "New" movements:  the New Woman, New Psychology, New Thought, and the New American.

CFP: CCNY Graduate English Conference: Through the Dark

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:37pm
The City College of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 21, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual City College of New York Graduate English Conference

 

Through the Dark

 

Conference Date: May 9th, 2025

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 18th, 2025

 

On Metamorphosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:36pm
University of Palermo / Institut français Palermo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Call for papers

On Metamorphosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives

International Conference, Palermo, 8th - 9th May 2025

 

Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy

 

Academy of Fine Arts, Palermo, Italy

 

French Cultural Center, Palermo, Italy

 

Deadline for abstracts: April 20th, 2025

 

Bengal in Translation: An Add-on Course On Translating To And From Bengali (Lectures can be attended online)

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:36pm
MANIKCHAK COLLEGE, MALDA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

About the Course:

 

Keeping in mind the increasing popularity and academic importance of literature(s) in translation that are either translated to or from Bengali, we, the organizers are introducing an add-on course focusing on both kinds of translation. Besides offering theoretical discussions on such translations (primarily through the lens of Translation Studies), this course will give the participants an opportunity to interact with renowned translators and academicians who have kindly agreed to share their expertise on the aesthetics, politics, challenges, and opportunities of translating to and from Bengali, using a “case-study based approach”.


 

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Palimpsests of the English Interregnum (Panel / In-Person)

Submit Abstract

Session Type: Special Session
Primary Area / Secondary Area: Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / British and Anglophone
Presiding Officer(s): Shataparni Bhattacharya (Indiana University - Bloomington)
shabhat@iu.edu

Abstract

Reminder CfP:14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies - Language, Literature, and Empathy

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:00pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 10, 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

CFP: Postcolonial Ecology (PAMLA, San Francisco, 11/20-23)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 12:40pm
Sarah Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025

In the past two decades, scholars of environmental literature have begun expanding the Euro-American canons and contexts that have long dominated ecocriticism and publication, teaching, and reading practices in the West. The perspectives on humans’ relationship with the nonhuman world that emerge from alternate global sites often complicate and even challenge the values and priorities of Western environmental scholarship and activism.

Survival and Healing

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 11:23am
Michigan College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 18, 2025

       

https://michigancea.org/

 

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 4, 2025

 

Themes:  Survival and Healing

 

Featured Speaker: Gail Griffin, poet and non-fiction writer

 

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

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Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 9:07am
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

October 17-18, 2025

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea 

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 5:32am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 2:08am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Online 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 2:07am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY, LITERARY ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENTAL STUDIES /ICSSR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 2:32pm
Deshbandhu College , University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY, LITERARY ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN

INDIANSUBCONTINENTALSTUDIES

8-9 April 2025

                  (SPONSORED BY ICSSR)

 

PAPERS ARE INVITED IN ENGLISH & BENGALI

(Across Disciplines Of English, Bengali, Anthropology, Sociology, Public Policy, Env. Studies, Law & Other Allied Disciplines)

 

 

ORGANIZEDBY

[Deadline Extended] Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Zadie Smith

updated: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 11:59am
Ataberk Çetinkaya / Middle East Technical University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

 

 

We are seeking chapter abstracts on Zadie Smith’s short stories, non-fictional prose, The Embassy of Cambodia and The Fraud to be added to the confirmed chapters of a collection of essays on Zadie Smith to be published by an international publisher. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.

 

Contact mail: ataberkc@metu.edu.tr

Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
LMU Munich
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 3, 2025

Publish your work on single, unmarried, widowed, asexual, queer or otherwise celibate Irish actvists, authors, characters, or collaborative networks, in an open-access journal with NO charge to the author!

Call for Papers: Fafnir 2/2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CfP: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research - Issue 2/2025ISSN: 2342-2009  Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. Please see below for details.  Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. It is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR).

Fandom | Cultures | Research - Call for Abstracts (Issue 1/26)

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
FANDOM | CULTURES | RESEARCH
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With the multiplicity of accepted formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside an editorially reviewed section that may contain data papers (data sets and complementary text), book reviews, conference reports, and interviews. Other creative format suggestions are also welcome. Furthermore, we invite themed guest sections for every issue.

SAMLA 97: CFP for “Transdisciplinary Knowledge Making in Community-Engaged Pedagogy”

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals that explore any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.

Eliot Society: MMLA 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Edward Upton/International T.S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The International T.S. Eliot Society is accepting proposals for a panel at the 2025 Midwest MLA conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to be held November 14-16, 2025. Any proposal on a subject reasonably related to Eliot studies will be considered. Papers on Eliot and religion, or those drawing from the Hale correspondence, The Complete Prose, or Letters would be especially welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send abstract proposals (250-300 words) to Professor Edward Upton (edward.upton@valpo.edu). Submissions must be received no later than April 15, 2025.

Celebrations of Student Writing: The Opportunities and Challenges of Writing Showcases (Roundtable / In-Person)

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Many faculty and programs across a wide array of university and scholastic settings offer events that center, celebrate, or showcase student writing. These are truly diverse and have a real impact on student growth, learning, and knowledge transfer at all educational levels. Whether a showcase or a celebration, whether for first year writing students or built into grad student professionalization, whether modeled on an art expo or in the style of an academic conference, these opportunities for students to share their work are worth reflecting on and situating amid other pedagogical or writing goals. We ourselves hope to showcase a variety of perspectives on the pitfalls and opportunities such celebrations offer for students, faculty, and programs.

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays. Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement 

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

Now is the Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Contemporary Politics An interdisciplinary conference on literary relevance and political thought

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:44pm
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cross-border Faculty, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Conference dates: 6–8 November 2025

Conference venues:

  • Multimedia Hall, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Rectorate Building, 47 Domneasca St., Galati, Romania/
  • “Dunarea de Jos” Cultural Centre
  • Library of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati.
  • Online sessions on Zoom

Submission deadline: 30 June 2025

“Fiction, Time, and the Quantum World” - PAMLA 2025, Nov. 20-23

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:10pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association - Nov. 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.     

FIDN '25: Future Directions in Interactive Digital Narratives Student Research Symposium 2025

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Monday, March 31, 2025 - 2:31pm
Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

The interdisciplinary field of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) combines immersive technologies with the timeless art of storytelling. IDN offers transformative ways to engage audiences, preserve cultural heritage and address social and educational challenges. From branching narratives in video games, to immersive virtual reality experiences and interactive installations, IDNs push the boundaries of how stories can be created and experienced.

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