Nabokov’s defense of personal freedom is well documented, but little has been written about his social commitments. Papers are invited on Nabokov’s works demonstrating concern for others: family, community, hospitality, mutual aid, solidarity, etc. Please send 250-word proposals by March 21.

Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its eighth biennial conference, which will take place March 12-14, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati, Ohio. We invite individual papers and group proposals on literature and culture in the United States, the Americas and beyond during the long nineteenth century.
 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe    
17-19 September 2025    
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)

Inviting papers on 21st century reconstructions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What is created/erased in these productions? Possible topics: teaching the HIV/AIDS crisis to a post-covid generation; reading race in the HIV/AIDS archive; recent literature/film/tv productions. 250-word abstracts.

The Journal of Sanātana Dharma hereby announces the Call for Submissions for its inaugural issue as we look forward to contributions from academicians, traditional scholars, and all kinds of Indic seekers. For further details, check our website: https://josd.info

CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review

Modern Language Association

2026 MLA Convention

January 8-11, 2026

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

Sponsored by the Adaptation Studies Forum, this guaranteed panel in the upcoming 2026 Modern Language Association conference will explore the intersection of race and adaptation, focusing particularly on film. The panel will engage in dialogue about how filmic adaptations convey, obscure, and transform racial meanings. They will also connect this conversation about racial representations in filmic adaptations to the theoretical question of how race, racism, and antiracism adapt to changing conditions, manifesting in new forms in new social contexts. We will pay particular attention to the dynamic of racial representation in film, a medium that critics such as Richard Dyer have shown to be influential in creating racial imaginaries. 

We welcome papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in exploring this theme in broad theoretical, practical, and cultural terms. We will consider the predicaments and possibilities of “Land” in the context of Maroon and Indigenous histories and cultures worldwide. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, geography, political science, anthropology, ethnography, law & criminal justice, ethnomusicology, education, literature, film, art, sustainability studies, Indigenous studies, economics, spirituality, religion, and ecocriticism.

Call for Papers:  

The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference: Witches in Culture, History, and Society 

Friday 20th June 2025 

York St. John University 

Submission Deadline: 1st April 2025 

MLA 2026 – Toronto

Early American Literature LLC

Declaring Dependence

Short Description: 

What happens when we center dependence, interconnection, and shattered subjectivities in the literary cultures that have been used to mark or substantiate figments of agency surrounding the early United States? 

Long Description: 

The Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, in collaboration with the PhD program in History and Transmission of Cultural Heritage, is organising the First International Doctoral Conference titled ‘Traces, Reflections, and Signs: Dynamics of Transmission’, which will take place in Naples on September 24th, 25th, and 27th, 2025. The conference is part of the Perspectives and Memories project: a cycle of conferences that can promote discussion on the theme of the transmission of cultural heritage in the humanities, creating a stable space for dialogue that will grow over time.

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

PANEL 4

American Requiem: “Cowboy Carter” and Black Feminist Imaginings of the South-West

Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) mariagiovanna.fusco@univaq.it

Giuseppe Polise (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) giuseppe.polise@univaq.it

The Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM) and the National Endowment for Financial Education are happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Stanford Financial Education Symposium (formerly Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute). It will be held on April 10-11, 2025, during Financial Literacy Month in the U.