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REMINDER: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 1:36pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 22, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

Deadline: May 22, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

REMINDER: One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 1:36pm
Noah Gallego and Layal Dahi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

 

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Conference Date: June 27, 2025

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University 

 

REMINDER: 30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 1:36pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium 

 

Deadline: April 4, 2025

Symposium Date: May 11, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

 

MLA 2026: Plural Cosmologies

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 10:16am
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.

Making Our Case For Early Modern English

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:27am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life?  What has worked for us? What hasn’t? 

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:27am
Teaching the Middle Ages
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!

 

About the project

Call for Essays and Creative Writing: Mixing Genre, Form, Media

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media. 

The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike. 

In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest. 

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World (PAMLA 2025 Special Session)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Alan Yeh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

 

We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:

Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World

Feeling Contemporary War: How Global Regimes of Sensing and Emotion Facilitate and Resist Military Power

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Amy Gaeta, University of Cambridge & Alex Adams, Independent Scholar
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 19, 2025

In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.

The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics: Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Linda Roland Danil
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.

Call for Book Chapters: Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction (Edited Collection of Essays)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Aswathi Velayathikode Anand
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025

Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025

Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)

Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in

 

Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)

Un siglo de Mrs. Dalloway y The Common Reader

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Spanish----

“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”

PAMLA 2025 session: Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

CFP: PAMLA 2025 

Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling  

Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel

Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025

 

Presiding officer: 

Mavis Tseng, 

Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center

Taipei Medical University

mavistseng@tmu.edu.tw

 

Abstract

1st International Young Researchers' Conference on "Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities"

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Aliah University, Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CONCEPT NOTE:

 

The Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Peter Lang, seeks to organise a conference entitled “Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” from 9 to 10 September 2025.

 

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 12: Dreams, Visions, and Utopias

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:23am
Ceræ - An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.

Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.

Studies on Vertigo (1958)

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.

CFP: Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature

Anderson University

Anderson, SC

October 23-25, 2025

 

 

First Films and Early Style

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Film Journal, Special Issue Proposal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Film Journal Thematic Issue Proposal: First Films and Early Style

Co-editors: Omid Bagherli and Charline Jao

We are seeking prospective contributers for a special issue of Film Journal on the topic of early style.

MSA Boston 2025: Caregiving Infrastructure and the First World War

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:21am
Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

Millions experienced physical and mental trauma as a result of the First World War. Government and private organizations attempted to mitigate the war’s impact in multiple ways – whether through direct medical care, through social support, or through rehabilitative assistance.  This panel seeks to explore official and unofficial infrastructures of caregiving that surfaced during the war and postwar periods, with particular interest in the way that these systems are examined and evaluated in writing and the visual arts.  Papers on all aspects of the war’s caregiving infrastructure are welcome.

Extension 4.0: Disruption and Transformation in Agri-Food and Rural Development

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:17am
Guelph University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?

Languages of the Future

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
UCL – Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 28, 2025

Call for Papers - We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Languages of the Future' Conference (5-6 June 2025), Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), University College London, London.

First day in-person (5th June 2025), second day online (6th June 2025).

We invite submission related but not limited to the following topics:

Women in French Sessions at SAMLA 2025

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

1.“Femmes écrivains à la croisée des savoirs / Women Writers at The Crossroads of Knowledge” 

 

Panel for 2025 PAMLA (San Francisco): Modern Hispanic Queer Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy No. 9, 2026

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:16am
Messengers from the Stars
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy

No. 9, 2026

Guest Editor: Alexandra Cheira

Co-Editor: Ana Rita Martins

 

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2026 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

The Streets of Tomorrow:

The Cityscape(s) of Fantasy & Science Fiction

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