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Science Fiction in Translation: Accommodation and Creativity

Edited by Oriana Palusci and Mirko Casagranda

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Netrokona University

Netrokona-2400

Bangladesh

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The MS Sound Forum invites papers for a guaranteed session at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Toronto in January 2026. The session responds in part to the MLA Executive Council’s refusal to allow debate or a vote on Resolution 2025-1, which supported the international “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction” (BDS) Movement for Palestinian rights against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In light of the Council’s suppression of debate, at MLA 2026, the Sound Forum seeks to provide a space for dialogue and meditation on silencing, censorship, and the role of organizations like the MLA in the face of systemic violence and threats to academic freedom.

CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN

The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.

GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:

Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd

Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings.  Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique.  Short bio, 250wd proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025

The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g.

Literary Infrastructure and the Precarity of Modernist Writers 

For the 2025 edition of Multiplatform, the Manchester Game Centre teams up with the MMU research group DVRK – Dark Arts Research Kollective – to host a conference exploring the intersections between games and occulture, investigating the transformative potential of games as forms of rituals to explore alternative histories and speculate on radical futures.

This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.

This panel invites papers on transnational influences among liberation theologies worldwide or on comparisons of theologians’ negotiations between Christianity and Marxism in their local contexts. Submit a 150-word abstract and a short bio to Youngkyun Choi (youngkch@umich.edu). 

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper30421.html

The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025. 

Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals

When Worlds Collide:  Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling

The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.

This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania.  For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit: 

RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

Call for Papers

During our sixth annual online event, we will discuss 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions are: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?

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Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

Deadline for Submissions: March 10th 2025