Dear Colleagues,

Silly Old Bear? Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh

Co-sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and Disney Studies Area

Call for Papers for 2025 Virtual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)

Thursday, 9 October, to Saturday, 11 October, 2025

Submissions are open until Tuesday, 15 July by 5 PM EDT

This edited book seeks to include quality works which provide new insights on the life-writings as an autoethnographical account of the lived experiences of Muslim women in India.

 EDITOR

Dr. N. Safrine, an Independent Researcher & Practitioner, Chennai, India

The chapters (abstracts/full-texts) should be submitted to the volume editor at safrine2017@gmail.com

 SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

‘Theory Today’ working group [USC] is organizing a two-day theory workshop with one of the preeminent and prolific theorists of our time, Prof. Todd McGowan1.  The workshop will take place on March 12-13, 2026, at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and will have the following schedule:

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Day 1 : March 12, 2026

Session 1 | McGowan: Foundations of Thinking [10 am to 1 pm]

-          Workshop session focused on reading and discussing primary texts, including Hegel, Kant, Marx, and Lacan.

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2025 virtual annual conference will be held from Thursday, October 9-Saturday, October 11, 2025. Sessions will take place on Zoom through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. More information on the conference can be found here: https://www.northeastpca.org/conference.

250-word abstracts are due by July 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue

Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia

We are inviting short abstracts (100 words) of papers on “Vernacular City-Narratives from Postcolonial South Asia”, to be published in a special issue for a Scopus-indexed journal (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Taylor and Francis, Q1). The deadline for the abstract submission is June 14, 2025. 

Special thematic dossier 7.2 | Native American Visibility and Representations in Contemporary USA: Between Cultural Belonging and Activism

Editor: María Elena Serrano Moya (Universidad de Alcalá)

Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025

Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata

Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal

Academic partner - British Council  

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025

• Keynotes

Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London

Justin Jones, University of Oxford

Dialectics of Transformation

UC Irvine Graduate Student Conference
Oct. 9th and 10th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)

Organizers: Rhema Hokama (Univerisity of Washington) and Jonathan Koch (Pepperdine University)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

This panel invites papers that explore the themes of toleration and cosmopolitanism in early modern English literature and its transnational connections. Tolerationist and cosmopolitan ideals, while often aspirational, also reveal tensions between universal humanism and local or national allegiances.

Organizer: Rhema Hokama (University of Washington) and Yangyou Fang (Princeton)

This is a call for submissions for a guaranteed session in English Literature sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America for the 2026 RSA conference in San Francisco (February 19–21, 2026).

Collection Editor: Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University

Contact Email: wwhelanstewart@mcneese.edu

Book Proposal: Edited Collection

Abstracts are invited for chapter proposals for an edited collection titled Motherhood and Its Cultural Artifacts in American Literature.

Description:

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society IV 

VISIONS OF CONTROL: POWER AND TECHNOLOGY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION 

Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan (Italy) in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group, taking place from October 15 to 17, 2025. 

Areas of interest: literature, cinema, television, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies. 

July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This central moment in American history has shaped our national self-perception for 250 years even as writers and scholars have debated the origins and meaning of the events of 1776 from the time they occurred until today. Inspired by these discussions and the national commemoration of independence, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society is convening a conference in June 2026. What beliefs turned a diffuse movement protesting imperial policy into a radical republican revolution in 1776? How did the events of 1776 play out in the communities that experienced them? How did independence change American society?