British Shakespeare Association Conference

Practising Shakespeare: new collaborations, expanding horizons

25-28 June 2025, University of York

Call for Panels, Papers, Roundtables, and Seminar Enrolment: Deadline 14 February 2025

For more information: https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/conference/

LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES

Call for Papers

EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture

Université de Montréal

April 11–13, 2025

The English Graduate Students’ Society (soon to become the English and Bidisciplinary Students’ Society) at l’Université de Montréal currently solicits proposals for paper presentations at its 2025 annual conference. The conference theme, “R/evolution,” invites us to considers the frictions and affinities between evolution and revolution, as we trace radical change and gradual transformation in literature and culture.

The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) is now accepting submissions for presentations at its sixth conference, which will be held on September 26-28, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. Proposals for talks, pre-constituted panels, workshops, roundtables, and post-mortems are due on April 13th, 2025.
Submit your proposal using this form. Do not use our contact email for submissions.

The conference will take place at Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès on 13 May 2025. Please send your proposals, along with a summary of up to 300 words and a brief bio-bibliographical note, by January 31, 2025 to anita.jorge@univ-tlse2.fr, Zachary.baque@univ-tlse2.fr and Vincent.souladie@univ-tlse2.fr.

CFP: “If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention” – The Representation of Mental Health in Theatre & Performance

Keynote: Robert Icke

The organizers invite proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the first Re-Staging conference. Hosted by staff aligned to the Stage & Screen Faculty of The Northern School of Art, this event will take place in person on Friday 11th April 2025. The theme for this year’s conference will explore the representation of mental health in theatre & performance.

The CFP will broadly look at three key strands:

The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.

We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 7. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.

Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...

NJCEA 47th Annual Conference

 "TEACHING LITERATURE AND WRITING STUDIES IN A POLARIZED SOCIETY" 

March 22, 2025 Seton Hall University

The challenges of teaching humanities in today’s increasingly polarized political climate are profound. Educators find themselves at the intersection of diverse ideologies, cultural tensions, and barriers students may face in their access to education. How do we teach literature and writing in ways that foster civility, empathy, and meaningful dialogue amid stark political divides? For the 2025 NJCEA annual conference, we ask you to consider ideas and pedagogical strategies that help navigate these tensions without losing the richness and relevance of literature and writing.

Call for Papers: Edited Volume on “Writing under Duress in Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora: The Articulation of a Coerced Imagination”

Editors: Dr. Hamida Riahi, Prof. Mounir Triki, and Dr. Saud Enazi
Publisher: This volume is being prepared for submission to Palgrave Macmillan for consideration.

Overview

Marina Warner’s latest work, Sanctuary: The Shelter of Stories (working title), the publication of which will coincide with our conference, opens with a scene from a film, where a man being chased finds refuge in a cathedral. Marina Warner describes how, as he lifts the giant door knocker, it becomes a hinge between danger and safety, enveloping the suppliant in a protective halo and becoming a portal to the Church’s ancient rite of, and right to, sanctuary. Enchanting Wor(l)ds will examine the myriad ways in which Marina Warner has dedicated her career to analysing how objects, spaces, temporalities, people, worlds and words can become enchanted: how they might be imbued with power, aura, mystery or dread.

Migrant Sensoria–special issue of The Senses and Society

What are the sensory experiences of migration? How do migrants negotiate their movement not only between spaces and cultures, but between different configurations of sensory environments, habits, and values? How do traumatic contexts of migration register—or fail to register—in sensory experience, and in sensorially entangled memories? How do different sensory arrangements and pedagogies contribute to the erosion, maintenance, or resurgence of collective memories across individual and trans-generational time? How might sensory experiences and interventions contribute to migrant performance, stories, and media—and to articulating “migrant futures” (Bahng)?

Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed journal published by NCTE and CCCC to address working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty.

This special issue—“AI Labor and Contingency: Issues Surrounding the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Student Work and Considerations for Part-Time and Contingent Faculty”—will be published in the fall of 2025. The submission deadline is March 15.

Call for Papers

In the postmillennial era, South Asian graphic narratives have emerged as powerful mediums for exploring traditional notions of gender and sexuality. This panel examines the ways in which these contemporary visual storytelling forms address and subvert the cultural constructs surrounding gender and sexual identities in South Asia.

Panel description:

Panel 69 - 

The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?