4th Annual Billy Joe Turner Symposium
Title: Soul & Syntax: The Evolution of Expression through Art, Dance, and Literature
Dates: April 15–17, 2026
Location: Texas Southern University – Houston, TX
Format: In-Person Conference

Middle Cinema, Realism, and Everyday Life: Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye

Call For Papers

Special issue:        Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies

Abstracts deadline:15 June 2025.

Publication date:    Summer 2026

Guest editors:        Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen

Language:              English, or Finnish

Transatlantic Mobilities: Migration, Memory, and the Making of Modernity

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute to learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.

The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.

Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.

In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.

Abstracts due: 30 July 2025

Completed Manuscript due: 15 December 2025

A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787)

Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/6L757WY6UC

Call For Papers

Deadline extended to June 9

Overview

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.

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La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

Abstract

This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

Description

DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.