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Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.
Lost Girls & New Women: Woolf, Conrad, & the Regendering of Empire
Comparative panel considering Conrad’s and Woolf’s female characters as challenging imperial gender norms. Papers might range from Conrad’s often biracial colonial feminine roles to Woolf on threatening sexualities or “New Women.” Short bio, 300wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025
Ben Leubner, Montana State University < leubnerb@montana.edu >
Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >
Conrad and the Global South: Networks of Relationality
Panel on Conrad's sharp critique of the imperial logics of individualism and appropriation in the global south, focusing on that author’s anti-colonial depiction of non-Western human entanglements and kinships. 300wd proposals, short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Alexia Hannis, University of Toronto < alexia.hannis@utoronto.ca >
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser University < mark_deggan@sfu.ca >
For a volume in the Genre Fiction and Film Companion series published by Peter Lang Oxford, we solicit papers on the topic of Neo-Victorian Gothic literature and film adaptation in the twenty-first century.
“Margaret Fuller and 19C American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science”
Margaret Fuller’s “Entertainments of the Past Winter,” published in the July 1842 issue of the Dial, relays, “Wherever we went, there was Lyell’s Geology on the table, and many of the suggestions made by these lectures lingered in conversation throughout the winter.” She is referencing Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, which made the then relatively new concept of deep time palatable to a wide audience. Lyell aided Fuller’s understanding of how past and present are connected, and helped her to see the long and ongoing processes of nature.
Call for papers for a collective volume
In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).
This is a special panel proposed for MLA Conference 2026 in Toronto, Canada (Scheduled from January 8 – 11). This panel focuses on the entangled legacies of colonialism, environmental degradation, and forced migration in contemporary literature and cinema. It interrogates how literary texts reimagine the relationship between ecological crises and human displacement, foregrounding the uneven impacts of climate change, resource extraction, and border regimes on postcolonial subjects.
Abstract should focus on the following areas (not limited to):
Postcolonial ecologies
Postcolonial disasters and indigenous knowledge
Postcolonial borders and geopolitics
Decolonialization and resistance
We invite abstracts for a Special Session (non-guaranteed) at the MLA Convention to be held in Toronto, Canada, from January 8-11, 2026.
In 1892, the satirical magazine Moonshine published “The Commission on Ghosts,” a mock-article recounting the “first sitting” of the Society for General Psychology’s Royal Commission on spirits. Those present are “The Chairman, the Editor of Light, Mrs. Annie Besant, Miss Florence Marryat, Mr. W. Eglinton, Mr. Dawson Rogers, Mr. C. N. Williamson, and Mr. W. T. Stead” (315). Each member was a public supporter/purveyor of spiritualist belief at the fin de siècle.
Titlle: Storied Seas, Blue Humanities and the Mediterranean Imagination
This special session invites proposals that explore the field of blue humanities through a Mediterranean lens. Proposals investigating the multifaceted dimensions of water and waterscapes in literary texts, films, television series, comics, theatrical performances are welcome.
A 250-word abstract along with a 100-word bio.
In-yer-Ear: Performing in the Headphone era
Open CFP: Contemporary Theatre Review Upcoming Special Issue
https://www.contemporarytheatrereview.org/upcoming-special-issues/
Guest Editors:
Maria Ristani (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Sotirios Bampatzimopoulos (Ankara University)
Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism
(23-25 October 2025)
In our daily lives, we frequently encounter terms like "culture," "cultured," "high-cultured," "low-cultured," and "uncultured." We often hastily label individuals based on their appearance or social status; for instance, a shabbily dressed person or a homeless individual might be instantly deemed "uncultured." Certain activities, such as traditional children's games like using a gulti (slingshot) to collect mangoes, playing hopscotch, or spinning tops, are sometimes dismissively categorized as pastimes of the chotolok or lower classes.
Kierkegaard and Incarceration
American Academy of Religion
In-person Annual Meeting, November 22-25 in Boston, MA
Following the 2025 American Academy of Religion Presidential Theme focused on “Freedom,” the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit invites papers on the topic of “Kierkegaard and Incarceration.”
“The desire for transcendence is the longing for something that breaks this cycle of means and ends and enables us to escape the everydayness of the everyday.”
— John Lachs, “Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life” (1997)
SAMLA 97: Knowledge -- Atlanta, GA -- November 6th - 8th, 2025 -- Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center
To submit a call, please use this link https://samla.ballastacademic.com/ to first make an account and then submit your CFP. (You do not have to be a member to submit a Call for Proposals). The final deadline for submissions is June 28.
Please also make sure to visit our new website at southatlanticmla.org!
Please note: This is a proposed, not a guaranteed, session, co-sponsored by the forum on Comics & Graphic Narratives and Adaptation Studies for MLA 2026 in Toronto (Jan. 8-11). It is contingent on approval by the MLA Program Committee. All prospective presenters must be current MLA members by April 1, 2025.
This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.
We invite contributions to an edited volume that delves into the complex and often nuanced villains of the Spider-Man universe. From the iconic Green Goblin to the morally ambiguous Venom, these characters have captivated audiences for decades, reflecting societal fears, psychological complexities, and the struggles between good and evil.
Corporate Fictions
Across the novel, theater, film, and television, and across genres and modes, the corporation has served as a key setting for fictionalizations of modern life. This panel aims to create an intermedial, intergeneric, and historically comparative conversation between literary and literary-minded scholars interested in the corporation as a representational content and form. Paper foci could include:
The general call for this year, inviting “papers that explore the value of the Humanities in relation to a more hopeful future” in areas including but not limited to “languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies”, has broad possibilities within the languages, literatures, histories, and cultures related to Old and Middle English.
We are excited to announce the call for proposals for Volume 32 of The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, which will be published by the end of 2025. The Grove is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in the English language, literature, and culture.
We welcome original research articles, reviews, and literary contributions on a wide range of topics within English Studies, including but not limited to:
Special issue of The Canadian Journal of Communication
Edited by Kisha McPherson, Natalie Coulter, and Marion Tempest Grant
Postcolonial Interventions invites scholarly articles for an OPEN ISSUE to be published in June 2025. As this call is being circulated, older territorial imperial aggression is threatening to bare its fangs across the world, right-wing forces of xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance continue to gather momentum across the world, inequality and ecological crisis continue to escalate and new forms of precarity are being constantly negotiated. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions seeks to explore such issues and more based on postcolonial experiences across the world.
Submission Guidelines:
MLA 2026 Toronto, January 8-11: Melville and the Law
Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities
University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Devin Singh (Dartmouth College)
Dr Rachel O’Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)
Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena. “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures.
July 15-17, 2025
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
The issue 27 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.
Submission Guidelines
The Ink Tide Writing Prize 2025
Fresher Publishing, in association with Bad Hand Coffee Roasters, are delighted to announce the launch of the Ink Tide Writing Prize, a short story competition open to all undergraduate students from around the world!
The winner of this contest will win a £200 cash prize and they, along with all short-listed entries, will see their work published in The Ink Tide Writing Prize anthology!
The competition is judged by experienced writer, artist, and educator Emma Scattergood, and runs between 17th February and 16th April 2025.