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Archipelago of Extremity:
Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico
Editors
Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD, Florida International University
Description
The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: April 30, 2025
Contact Email: cfp.inclusive@gmail.com
Edited by: Dr. Soumik Sakar, Dr. Ashraf Pulikkamath, VIT-AP University (School of Social Sciences & Humanities) & Dr.
In Blue Ecocriticism, Sydney I. Dobrin provocatively calls for viewing “oceanic deficit” as form of “disciplinary critique” (9) in order to open up the epistemic realm of ecocriticism which primarily deals with the representation of ecological substance in literary and cultural works.
Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
We invite contributons to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. We are specifically looking for chapters about the following villains: Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, Black Cat, Lizard, Sandman, Scorpion, Shocker, and Tombstone. Other submissions may be accepted, but we are not looking for chapters on Mysterio, Doc Ock, Electro, Vulture, Venom, Punisher, Green Goblin, Rhino, Kingpin, Jackal, Sinister Six, Spidey Super Stories, Spider-Man's War on Drugs, or J. Jonah Jameson.
This volume is being published by the University of Mississippi Press. We welcome a diverse range of scholarly analyses, including but not limited to:
Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour
University of Bucharest, Romania
19-21 March 2026
(in-person)
Keynote speakers:
Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)
Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)
Maria Mandea
Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change
Call for Papers: Stories and Sacredness: Reimagining Myth and Folklore Across Indian Cultures
(Proposed as Part of Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions)
Editors:
Dr. Rajkumar Bera, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Midnapore City College, West Bengal
Dr. Sakti Sekhar Dash, Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA
Conference ThemeKenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI
RABINDRANATH, GANDHI, AND THE ECOLOGY OF CHANGE
Concept Note
Children’s Literature and Young Adult Literature Permanent Sections
Session Coordinator: Dr. Amberyl Malkovich
Dept. of English, Concord University
“Hope and the Humanities” in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Cultures
1st NEOLAiA International Conference on Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentring Europe
Universidad de Jaén, October 1-3, 2025
https://www.narratinghistories-neolaiaconference.com/
@neolaianarratories.bsky.social
Call for Papers:
This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.
The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/
This panel seeks presentations on Technical and Professional writing, whether in the college classroom or in the world at large. The panel will be interdiscplinary - we invite proposals from those working in business writing, engineering communication, health science writing, and other fields.
Topics can range from ethics to pedagogy to technologies including AI. The final panel will seek to comprise a cohesive but varied set of papers.
Bloomsbury has shown interest in publishing this project.
Editors:
Dr. Shubhanku Kochar shubhankukochar@outlook.com
Dr. Tanupriya tanupriya.2493@gmail.com
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.
Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.
Creative writing and technical writing are often seen as distinct disciplines , one rooted in imagination and artistic expression, the other in clarity, functionality, and precision. However, in today’s evolving communication landscape, these boundaries are increasingly blurred. From storytelling and spontaneous overflow of emotion to persuasive technical crafting, the fusion of creativity and technical accuracy is more relevant than ever. This conference seeks to explore how these disciplines can inform, inspire, and shape each other.
Sub-Themes: We invite original research papers and creative presentations on the following sub-themes, though not limited to:
● Narrative Techniques in Technical Writing
CFP: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference
Call for Papers
Where: The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
When: October 8-11, 2025
Abstracts: 250-300 words, via online submission form
Proposals Due:DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 14, 2025
The Time of the “Bruggadung”:
States of EmUrgency
‘but leh murder start an’ bruggalungdung/ yu cahn fine a man to hole up de side’ (Kamau Brathwaite)
As editors of the planned Palgrave Handbook on Fungal Horror in Popular Culture, which has 33 commissioned chapters, Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden seek approximately 10 additional original essays.
We are primarily looking for chapters on fungal horror in non-Anglophone material, but also welcome studies of less mainstream Anglophone texts.
English:
Alma Mater – Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, an anonymous double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Maurer Press in Germany and indexed by DNB, ZDB, EZB, and ERIH+, is currently welcoming cultural and social contributions from scholars around the world for its upcoming issue in September 2025. The journal publishes articles in German and English. Submissions can be made via the journal platform at https://jics.ejournal.gen.tr/ or by email to habib.tekin@hotmail.com. For further information, please visit: www.almamaterjics.com
Higher, faster, more expensive: At the latest since the era of the insurgent streaming wars, excess has become a leitmotif of modern television culture (cf. Maeder 2021, 11–14). As an "oversized audiovisual narrative" (Bandirali/Terrone 2021, 14), series indulge in dramatic opulence, preferably becoming entangled in a dynamic of exposed exaggeration, trying to compete not only with other shows but also with themselves (cf. Sudmann 2017). In this context, excess seems inevitably linked to the discourse of narrative quality, which increasingly demonstrates that "size matters" (Jahn-Sudmann/Kelleter 2012, 209).
Developed and promoted by the German-speaking academic community, frequently mobilized by Anglophone and Scandinavian scholars, yet less used in Francophone and Italophone research, the concept of postmigration marks a significant shift in migration discourses. By dissolving the binary opposition between migrants and non-migrants, it allows immigration to be regarded as an intrinsic component of European societies. The conference “From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration” aligns with this ongoing epistemological and analytical transformation. It aims to explore how postmigration thinking is reshaping the narratives that can be written, spoken, or reconstructed from migration-related experiences.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025
Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.
Potential topics include:
CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”
Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)
Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, June 24-26, 2025
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2025
Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/beyond-the-comic-strip-2025/
Call for Papers:
Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025
Vol. 8, No. 1 - May, 2025
ISSN 2517-4266
Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.
The Literary Encyclopedia at www.litencyc.com is looking for qualified writers to enhance its coverage of postwar and contemporary American poetry. Following is a list of poets for whom we are seeking introductory essays of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works. The list below is not comprehensive or final, and new proposals of writers/works/context essays that are not currently listed in our database are also welcome.