The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

Education systems worldwide are undergoing significant transformations driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving societal needs. Exploring global best practices in education offers valuable insights into strategies that enhance teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and institutional excellence. This international conference aims to bring together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and learn from exemplary educational practices that have proven successful in diverse cultural and institutional contexts.

Objectives

1. To identify and analyze global best practices in education that enhance learning outcomes.

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

Conference online: 20-21 March 2025

All details: 8th "TRAUMA AND NIGHTMARE" Conference

CFP:

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The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society seeks proposals for a roundtable discussion at the next meeting of SSAWW, held in Philadelphia from November 6-9, 2025.  The theme of this year’s SSAWW is “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW.”  With this theme in mind, our roundtable is titled “The History and Future of Author Societies.”  The roundtable will ideally consist of participants from various author societies, who will discuss anticipated changes and relevance for author societies, talking about both their histories and their imagined futures.  We imagine this roundtable will examine many of the important elements highlighted in the call for papers for the conference, including the way that author societies create communities to “en

How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over time? What networks or collaborations sustained them in and beyond Spain and Latin America? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios in English or Spanish.

Submission deadline: March 10, 2025 

Contact information: 

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U, KS (jzamostny@ksu.edu) 

CFP: 2025 International Remote ISC at SC State 

March 28, 2024 via Zoom

Crossing Borders: Building Bridges in Today’s Global Community

The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for individual twenty-minute papers/presentations for the 2025 Intersectional Studies Remote Conference via Zoom on Friday, March 28, 2025.

Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?”

Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric Larsen (Aarhus University), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)

In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

May 10th and 11th, 2025

Online via Zoom

With keynote addresses by:

Dr Michael P. Bibler

(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])

and

Dr Laura Rattray

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?

Seeking presentations on literatures, theories, and pedagogies conducive to fostering metalinguistic appreciation and awareness in an age of disappearing foreign language requirements. 300-word abstract and short CV.

The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2025 Annual Conference, to be held in Honolulu, Hawai`i from 14–18 May 2025. We invite papers addressing any aspect of literature, film, and other cultural narratives of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

In light of this year’s conference location, we are also inviting papers on literature, film, and cultural narratives of the Pacific Islands. We are especially interested in papers examining transnational or oceanic intersections of literatures and cultures, as well as papers on Aboriginal, Māori, or other Indigenous topics.