MLA 2026, Toronto, Prose and poetics of aging in migration literature

I would like to organize a panel on aging in migration literature to provide a forum where participants can discuss current trends in and concerns about the representation of aging and older persons across various genres of migration writing as well as think about future possibilities. I am particularly interested in aesthetic representations of aging in irregular migration, asylum, and refugee narratives in addition to the portrayals of aging parents and relatives who are impacted by younger generations’ migration.

This interdisciplinary panel at the RMMLA 2025 seeks to examine the complex intersections of colonial power, medical practice, and literary representation and welcomes proposals of 250 words on topics that address the following questions. How does literature engage with colonial medical interventions, their successes, failures, and lasting impacts on colonized populations? What does medical fiction and film tell us about the tension between Indigenous healing practices and Western medicine, the role of medical “experimentation” in colonial contexts, and the literary afterlives of colonial medical disasters?

Call For Book Chapters

Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:

Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University

“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013) 

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age

The Gaskell Journal 

Joan Leach Memorial 

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026

 Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

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Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025

Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:

General guidelines:

Dear Scholars and Academicians,

We are pleased to announce a call for articles for a forthcoming book focusing on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), which will explore the depth and diversity of India’s ancient wisdom, traditions, and knowledge frameworks. The book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional and contemporary relevance of the Indian Knowledge System, highlighting its interdisciplinary applications and global significance.

The book will be published by a renowned publishing house and will have a ISBN, ensuring wide visibility and dissemination of your work among global academia and researchers.

Suggested Themes

I'm looking to build a panel for OAH (Organization of American Historians ) in 2026. It will take place in Philadelphia and I'd love to create a Philly-centric panel. More broadly, decolonization focusing perhaps on city spaces, art, monuments, ecologies, and histories. 

My abstract is below. Email me ASAP if your ideas feel simpatico. 

Abstracts due via email by MARCH 17th, 2025

The Harold Pinter Review invites essays that consider the influence and effects that Harold Pinter’s plays have had on modern drama generally, including such aspects as style, staging, subject matter, characterizations, structure, and tone.  We also invite essays that consider the stylistic and thematic relations between Pinter’s work and that of another contemporaneous playwright. 

The process of coming out is often framed as a moment of self-realization, a turning point where individuals gain profound insight into their sexual orientation or gender identity. This panel seeks to explore how literature, film, television, and video games depict the mental, psychological, and emotional processes that LGBT individuals undergo as they recognize and articulate their identities. 

UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 16, 2025

Dates: May 9–10, 2025

In celebration of 50 yearsof scholarship and community, the 50th European StudiesConferencewill offer both online and in person panels at theUniversity of Nebraska Omaha and welcomespaperson European topics in all disciplines. Areasof interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, geography, performing arts, and current issues in cultural, political, social, or economic areas of study. 

Graduate students are invited to apply for the Best GraduateStudent Paper Award in the amount of $250. Deadline to submit their paper for consideration is1 September 2025. 

We are seeking chapter abstracts on Zadie Smith’s short stories, non-fictional prose, The Embassy of Cambodia and The Fraud to be added to the confirmed chapters of a collection of essays on Zadie Smith to be published by an international publisher. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.

Contact mail: ataberkc@metu.edu.tr

Once again we invite you to join us in reflection on the contemporary literary culture. We understand it as an integral part of the global socio-cultural communication with its characteristic infrastructure and a dynamic system of relations between authors and audiences (to refer once more to the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and the complementary suggestions by Janusz Sławiński1) This time, we are interested in the question of collaboration, cooperation and participation in texts and discourses functioning in contemporary literary culture.