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The Caribbean Digital XII
4-5 December 2025
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2025
Conference website: The Caribbean Digital
We are seeking proposals for papers that explore Octavia E. Butler’s oeuvre for a special session at the PAMLA 2025 Conference in San Francisco.
The session format is a seminar: Four to seven participants will share their paper ahead of time and then present a brief (five to seven minute) summary of their paper during the seminar, allowing time for an extended question and discussion period.
All submissions are welcome, but because Butler’s literature evidently lives in the past, present, and future—within the fictional worlds she builds and in our world as her readers—we are particularly interested in papers that engage with her work in relation to the 2025 PAMLA conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
Chênière journal call-for-papers
Volume 9
Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its ninth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music, and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.
Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
Submissions requested by May 15. Rolling submissions accepted until June 15.
InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. The journal welcomes authors from the disciplines of film and media studies, art history, anthropology, and visual studies to submit work on any topic. Academics and artists at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.
Articles
I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in a special issue proposal of Citizenship Studies, tentatively titled “Posthumanism and Citizenship.”
The abstract proposal for the issue can be found below.
If you are interested, I kindly ask you to submit a 400-word abstract of your paper and a 200-word biography by April 25, 2025, to cdedeoglu@yorkvilleu.ca.
PAEDEIA: NSU Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law
Published by
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
North South University
CALL FOR PAPERS
(Vol. 1, 2025; Expected publication in November 2025)
In this special issue of the BFS (British Fantasy Society) Journal we take a hard look at War in Fantasy. Conflict, from skirmishes to mass battles, tavern brawls to planet-wide apocalypses, is a staple of Fantasy: The Battle of the Five Armies in The Hobbit, The Last Battle in Narnia, The War in Heaven by Charles Williams, and Lyra Belacqua’s fight against death and the consciousness-stifling strictures of the Magisterium, are a few examples.
2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions
13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)
15 min talks
Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions
We are seeking chapters for a collection provisionally entitled AI in Contemporary Youth Literature and Film: Essays from Around the World, whichaims to be a timely additional resource to the field of children’s and YA scholarship as well as a resource for anyone interested in AI and youth. We have preliminary interest from McFarland (USA) for publishing the volume.
SYNAPSIS – EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Date: September 22–26, 2025
Location: San Miniato, PI (Italy)
Synapsis 2025 Theme: Knots, Bonds
Application Deadline: June 30, 2025
“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27)
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth
Call for Papers: Symposium on "Teaching Innovation in Higher Education in U.S. Literature, History, and Culture" at the CIDICO Conference
In this new edition, which will take place online on November 17, 18, and 19, and in person on November 20 and 21, organized by the SEJ-473 Research Group of the University of Almería and the Research and Training in Psychology, Education, and Health Group, we aim to continue promoting a multidisciplinary meeting of educators. This space seeks to highlight all University Areas of Knowledge and provide an opportunity to share work related to Teaching Innovation, methodologies, and research projects.
Call for Book ChaptersUrban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature
Editors
Dr. Neethu P. Antony, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dr. Arpana Venu, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India
YOUNG SCHOLARS’ SYMPOSIUM
REGIONAL LITERATURES IN INDIA: NOTIONS, NUANCES & NARRATIVES
21st April 2025 || Offline Mode
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
The Louisiana Creole Research Association invites submissions for its 2025 journal, La Créole, on subjects relevant to its mission of advancing family research, providing education, and celebrating Creole history and culture.
ABSTRACT
Since the end of direct colonization, African literature has remained anchored in a new direction of consciousness-raising and awakening for black people. This literature, which has always served as a means of expression and protest in the face of social challenges, has since served as a tool for learning and education.
Digital & Analog Cultures
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA Conference in Milwaukee (November 14-16, 2025). Though proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome, we also seek proposals that specifically engage with the 2025 MMLA theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio (or brief CV) to John McCaw at rjmccaw@uwm.edu by April 25, 2025.
Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!
Description of Session: The session is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.
NOTE: This call is for papers to be presented at the conference.
Please direct your brief abstract (less than 250 words) and/or any questions to Jennifer Topale at Jennifer.topale@du.edu. Abstracts are due by 30 April 2025.
Call for Papers to be prestented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 2025 in Spokane, WA!
This panel explores the movement and circulation of texts within multilingual contact zones, spaces that, through cultural exchange, commerce, and conflict, are defined by the presence of multiple languages. Multilingualism is often heralded as a feature of cosmopolitanism, defined against nationalist monolingualism, yet it can also be the product of forces including incipient capitalist mercantilism, imperialist conquest and colonization, and exile.
Call for Papers
Irish Studies Permanent Section
Echoes of Hope: Resilience and Renewal in Irish Literature
2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
14-16 November 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume with ISBN
Tentative title of the book-
“Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners”
Editors- Dr. Asim Kumar Betal
Dr. Kishwar Badakhshan
It is a great pleasure to announce that an edited volume tentatively titled “Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Empowering Learners” by a national publisher of repute is going to be published soon. Critical Pedagogy in ELT has gained significant attention in recent years, emphasizing the need to challenge dominant power structures, promote social justice, and empower learners. This special issue seeks to explore the intersections of critical pedagogy and ELT, highlighting innovative approaches, research, and practices that foster learner empowerment.
In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”
Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
Call for Papers:
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference
May 24-26, 2025
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/storytelling-2025/
Where:
May 24-25, 2025: Oxford University (and Online)
May 26: Online only
Fees:
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”
Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
December 18-20, 2025
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Call for Panel Participants
College Art Association Annual Conference
18-21 February 2026 | Chicago, IL USA
https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals
“Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ Resistance”
Cinema and Posthuman Bodies
Edited by Asijit Datta
Session Format: Seminar
This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in
conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in
relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using
time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,
embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33
responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern
conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also
responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that
have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury