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Philip K. Dick and the Transfiguration of American Science Fiction

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
S. Hartwell Johnson / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

 

Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694

Romantic-Era Literature Session at PAMLA

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.

 

The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

 

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

“Things That Go Bump in the Night: An International Literary Conference on All Things Scary”

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
Anais Shelley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

“Things That Go Bump in the Night: An International Literary Conference on All Things Scary” 

Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2025

Organized by Anais Shelley, Undergraduate at Troy University

October 16th-18th, 2025 – To be hosted online

Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 16th-18th, 2025 by Troy University undergraduate student, Anais Shelley.

Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:

  • Supernatural themes

  • Domestic horror

Call for film, television, novel, and theoretical texts reviews

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
FEMSPEC
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.

Here are texts that we have available:

STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson

THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson

THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman

KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier

DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer

CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss

We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.

Accessibility and Difficulty in Feminist Modernist Studies

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Karen Weingarten
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”

Edited Collection The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link). 

Call for Papers: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for Papers

Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature

(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)

 

Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)

Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

 

The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.

Xenophobia and Violence in Asia

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:51pm
Special Issue: National Identities (T&F)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

National Identities (T&F)

Special Issue Editors:

Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University.

Email: deb61594@gmail.com

Parvin Sultana, Department of Political Science, Pramathesh Barua College (Affiliated to Gauhati University)

Email: parvin.jnu@gmail.com

 

Xenophobia and Violence in Asia

Hitchcock's America; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

 

Hitchcock's America 

 

CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media for Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium (5/25/2025; online 7/20/2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Michael Torregrossa /Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium

Sunday, 20 July 2025

 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for another panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium, which will run on Sunday, 20 July 2025. 

 

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries; PAMLA (Nov. 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

Aesthetics of Fluidity

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:47pm
Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.

 

Disruptions of Memory in Contemporary Television, Film, and Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.

The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.

CFP - the eTEXTS 15: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.

K-Pop Reader

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Min Ji Kang/Denison University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.

The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.

Abstract

Identity in Popular Culture SAMLA Panel

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Popular culture serves as a powerful pedagogical force, often subtly and overtly shaping our understanding of the world, ourselves, and others. From the narratives we consume in film and television to the interactions we engage in on social media, popular culture offers frameworks for understanding social norms, historical events, scientific concepts, and the very nature of identity itself. This session aims to unpack the processes through which knowledge is produced, validated, contested, and internalized within and via popular culture, as well as how these processes intersect with the lived experiences and representations of various identities.

Possible Panel Topics May Include, but are not limited to:

Staying Put

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

For this special issue on “Staying Put,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that engage with “staying put” as a conceptual framework and/or as a foundational aspect of theatre, dance, and performance studies scholarship. This theme is inspired by the resilience performance groups have historically exhibited—and continue to exhibit—in response to challenges such as the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising rents, lack of funding, and political instability. Many practitioners and companies have resisted displacement, remaining in the spaces where they cultivate their craft, generate new artistic possibilities, and engage with their communities. A notable example is Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado.

Institutionality

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:33pm
Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

In her introduction to a special section in a 2002 issue of Dance Chronicle, Sally Banes called for attention to an emerging subfield in dance studies that she dubbed “critical institutional studies.”[1] Distinct from what were established discourses of institutional critique in art history and visual and media studies, critical institutional studies would align more directly with critical museum studies, new materialisms, and Marxist criticism in its focus on material structures of support for dance creation, presentation, and reception. Since Banes’s 2002 call, predominant strands of “critical institutional studies” have emerged in relation to theatre, dance, and performance studies.

Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:32pm
Iraboty Kazi, Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.

Spanish and Portuguese / Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:32pm
RakhelVillamil-Acera/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 10, 2025

This session delves into the rich and multifaceted landscape of Spanish and Portuguese literature, film, and cultural studies within the Iberian Peninsula. We invite submissions that engage with a broad spectrum of topics, particularly those that foreground the experiences of traditionally marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) the Gypsy/Romani and Afro-Hispanic populations. Areas of interest may also encompass gender studies, migration and exile, political ideologies, poverty, violence, motherhood, masculinity, memory, and the dynamics of remembrance and forgetting.

BAKEA IX - 9th International Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:22pm
Selçuk University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

The ninth BAKEA (International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium), which was first organized in 2009 by the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Pamukkale University, will be hosted this year by the Departments of French Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, and Russian Language and Literature at Selçuk University. The main theme of this year’s symposium has been entitled as “fiction,” with the aim of bringing together theoretical and applied studies from relevant disciplines.

John Le Carre

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
Adam Parkes / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge."  Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.  

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré.  Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television.  Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.

Send a proposal of 200-250 words to Adam Parkes, University of Georgia, at aparkes@uga.edu. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Decolonization and Global Justice

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference

Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Call For Participation

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

SAMLA 97: Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
Lisa Wenger Bro / Middle Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

SAMLA’s 97th annual conference, Knowledge, will be held at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA this year from November 6-8.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/  

 

Speculative Fiction Panel

The 11th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:20pm
PAH
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

Date:1-2 February 2026

Venue: Ahwaz, Iran

Website: WWW.TLLL.IR

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

 

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