Faculty of Languages and Literature (FoLL), University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing a Two-day International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics on the theme of Erasure, Resistance, and Innovation on June 6 - 7, 2024,(Online and In-person).  Political erasure of unwanted individuals, communities, cultures, identities, languages, and knowledge through forced and orchestrated collective amnesia has been endemic in human history. Power has always openly and surreptitiously been involved in deciding whose knowledge matters. Which language and meaning matter to be sensible? Who matters as a human? Whose sufferings matter as grievable?

Inviting proposals on confinement and freedom, prisons visible and invisible, in works by Lessing or in conversation with another 20th-C world writer. Papers may adopt various perspectives—theoretical, philosophical, political, allegorical. Send 250-word abstract and bio.

CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans 

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following theme for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):  

Nabokov and Musicality 

Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution

Joseph Conrad Society of America (MLA Allied Organization) MLA 2025 New Orleans

Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis, Call for Chapters

An edited collection tentatively titled “Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis” is seeking chapter submissions.   

Having been born many years after C.S. Lewis died I of course never had the opportunity to watch a movie with the man. However, over the years I feel, as many others probably feel as well, like Lewis accompanies me as I watch movies, read books, attend church services, and make other daily pursuits. Lewis’ works shape my thinking on many theological, educational, and cultural matters like few other authors’ works do.

One Day symposium 

April 18, 2024

10am - 5pm

Deadline: March 20, 2024

Venue: 320 Pomerene Hall, Ohio State University

Supported by: Translational Data Analytics Institute, OSU

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the twentieth anniversary  Slayage Conference—the tenth biennial (SC10). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC10 will be held on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, on 18-21 July 2024. This twentieth anniversary conference will be organized by Local Arrangements Chair Lewis Call.

This cfp is for the panel that I am hosting at PAMLA, 2024. Kindly consider sending your abstracts. Link https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19110

The African American Literature Forum and the College Language Association, collaboratively, invite papers for a panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA).

We invite scholars to submit 250-word abstracts that reflect on the lasting significance of The New Negro: An Interpretation, in recognition of the centennial anniversary of its 1925 publication.

Please submit abstracts and brief (250-word) speaker biographies to McKinley E. Melton (mmelton@gettysburg.edu) by Friday, March 22nd for consideration.

Call for Papers: JAWS  Volume 9

We invite contributions to this hybrid issue of JAWS, which combines both a themed section and an open section.

Theme: 'On Resonance'

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students#call-for-papers

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer-reviewed, printed and entirely open-access journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective.

  “Imperfect Women Writers” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller SocietyModern Language Association 2025 | January 9–12, 2025, New Orleans In Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, the editors cite an anonymous correspondent of Fuller’s, who writes, “Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an art, and every person not merely as an artist, but as a work of art. She looked upon herself as a living statue, which should always stand on a polished pedestal, with right accessories, and under the most fitting lights. She would have been glad to have everybody so live and act. She was annoyed when they did not, and when they did not regard her from the point of view which alone did justice to her.

This is a Special Session proposal for MLA 2025. We invite papers that broadly explore any aspect of Marilyn Monroe including:

+ Reading Marilyn Monroe reading literature, poetry, etc.

+ Monroe and adaptation in literature, film, and cinema

+ Speculative readings of Monroe in popular culture

+ Her posthumous publications

+ Monroe's reception as writer in mainstream vs. academic circles

See below for the full title, the call, and contact information.

Off The Camera, On The Page: Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer