Queen's University Conference: Training the Early Modern Heart, 29-31 July 2025, Kingston, ON, Canada. Deadline for abstracts: 15 Feb 2025. Inquiries/submissions to J. Standing, jade.s@queensu.ca; https://www.queensu.ca/english/conferences/cfp-training-the-early-modern-heart.

Special Issue, July 2025

The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Guest Editors:

Khalid Y. Long

Howard University

DeRon S. Williams

Loyola University Chicago

Editors:

Reffat Ferdous, Assistant Professor, Department of Television, Film and Photography, Dhaka University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

Subham Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College (Affiliated to University of Calcutta)

Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture

Friday, March 21, 2025

On the campus of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas

Morning plenary speaker: David Block, author of Baseball before We Knew It and Pastime Lost

Luncheon keynote speaker:  Bobby Dernier

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

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

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

Panel 19. 

(Un)Narrating the West: Literature, Politics, and the Frontier Unconscious

Coordinators:

Marco Petrelli (Università degli Studi di Pisa), marco.petrelli@unipi.it

Virginia Pignagnoli (Universitat autònoma de Barcelona), virginia.pignagnoli@uab.cat

Call for Articles: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue.

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.

The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

Keynote Speakers 

John Mullan (University College London) 

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is excited to announce that we are seeking new members of our organizing committee. 

FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we ran successful online conferences with a focus on accessibility and community. Since then, we have continued implementing new online conference formats that allow us to bring together fan studies scholars from North America and around the world every year. 

Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College

OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA

Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025

Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

Virtual Special Issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

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 30th if you’re interested.

The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) is now accepting submissions for presentations at its sixth conference, which will be held on September 26-28, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. Proposals for talks, pre-constituted panels, workshops, roundtables, and post-mortems are due on April 13th, 2025.
Submit your proposal using this form. Do not use our contact email for submissions.

The conference will take place at Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès on 13 May 2025. Please send your proposals, along with a summary of up to 300 words and a brief bio-bibliographical note, by January 31, 2025 to anita.jorge@univ-tlse2.fr, Zachary.baque@univ-tlse2.fr and Vincent.souladie@univ-tlse2.fr.