RSA 2026 Roundtable: Our Minor Poets
“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot
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“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot
Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 25.2
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.
Birthing Stories: Silence, Trauma, and The Power of Narratives in Clinical Care
Devaleena Das and Jessica Gildersleeve
when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.— Audre Lorde
Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.— Barbara Katz Rothman
We are now accepting submissions for our next regular issue.
Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–10,000 words) adhering to the MLA formatting guidelines should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 July 2025.
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Appel à communications/Call for papers
Climas (EA 4196)
Université Bordeaux Montaigne
26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026
La révision/Revision
Organisateurs/organizers :
Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard
(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)
“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”
PULSE – the Journal of Science and Culture
VOL 12 (2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND BOOK REVIEWS
Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),
19th-20th February 2026
Call for Papers
Deadline: 1st September 2025
Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema
The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.
Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to:
CFP (edited volume): 13 Exigencies for Teaching the Essay
2025 marks the 35th year since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Though ADA advances have often been celebrated in mainstream media and the rights they support taken as secured, it has come under attack through rollbacks since 2016, and most recently by removing DEIA initiatives within the Department of Education. At the same time, national and international discourse community efforts through conferences and other open forums have grown more diffuse. With this in mind, this conference, “New Directions in Disability Studies,” will reflect on where disability studies has come from and what it will be in the future.
The premise of this anticipated panel is that Areopagitica is a critical text for our age, so it’s time to reconsider it. John Milton’s 1644 argument against pre-publication censorship is lauded by some as an absolute defense of freedom of speech. But Areopagitica also advocates suppression of Catholic writings and allows for destruction of most everything else after its publication. Scholars have long considered whether this text provides a resource for advocates of freedom of expression and the press, a model of totalitarianism, or something else entirely. How might our own age of media revolution and debates about intellectual freedom recast our understanding of Areopagitica and its legacies?
As readers of Milton know, Milton’s writings are often humorous, titillating, outrageous – extra in today’s colloquial parlance. Of course, they are also challenging, but this too can be pleasurable. Studying Milton involves, simply put, serious fun. How might we rethink our affective approaches to Milton’s poetry and prose to spotlight not only their difficulty but also their recreation? What is at stake for Milton and for us in the pleasures derived from, for example, an over-the-top invective or a sarcastic God? What are sustaining and enlivening potentials in critical and creative practices, such as speculation, auto-criticism, and parody? And how might we mobilize these potentials in our writing and teaching to engage new audiences?
The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers considering any aspect of John Milton’s writings, their reception, and their significance for a proposed panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, held February 19-21, 2026. In the spirit of the RSA, we also welcome papers that bring into dialogue Milton Studies and areas of research across the Renaissance world, including literature, philosophy, art and music. Send your paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2025.
Main theme: “Listening to Each Other’s Voices”
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 82nd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina-Columbia and held from Friday, September 19 to Saturday, September 20, 2025.
The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.
How to Submit
In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines” (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our panel is interested in exploring and mapping potential futures for the humanities as technology becomes an increasingly significant presence in how we teach and present our work in the classroom.
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CfP Between XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism”
Edited by:
Simona Beccone (University of Pisa), Sofia Morabito (University of Pisa), Daniela Pierucci (University of Pisa), Matteo Zupancic (University of Pisa).
Submission deadline: 30 November 2025.
Peer-review (est.): February 2026.
Publication Date: 30 May 2026.
I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are:
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Special Issue: ‘Dramatherapy in Europe’
Deadline: 15 August 2025
View the full call here>>
Greetings everyone!
We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.
Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.
This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.
Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture Virtual Conference | September 4–5, 2025
Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume
Gothic in Bengal: Literature and Culture
liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027
Submissions due January 15, 2026
Call for Papers // Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature // Winter 2026 Special Issue: Reading Victorian Religion// Guest Editor, Amanda Vernon
Aims and Scope
Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.
Call for
Aims and Scope of the Journal
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2025
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts
This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing?
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.