The term ‘Global South’ has become a new agency in the changing world today as it has been an evolving space for resistance, innovation and transformation. Although the very emergence of Global South has been often quoted as a reaction to the cultural and political imposition by ‘the dominant force’ that determines and regulates world politics and media discourses in many ways, Global South still seeks to assert its right of self-determination, economic cooperation and continual resistance to neo-colonialism.  The countries, communities and societies which are located within the broader spectrum of ‘Global South’ continue to contribute and attempt to shape and alter the public discourse on equity, sustainability and justice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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 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

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.

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!

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

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.”