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.

Last year marked the centenary of both the Republic of Turkey and James Baldwin, yet Baldwin’s time in Istanbul (1960–71) remains an understudied period in his literary and intellectual life. This panel seeks to explore Baldwin’s "Turkish decade" beyond exile narratives, and focuses on how his engagement with Istanbul’s artistic, literary, and queer communities shaped his work and political thought. How did Baldwin’s experiences in Turkey influence his evolving critique of race, sexuality, and transnational belonging? How might we rethink Baldwin’s literary and activist legacy through the lens of his Istanbul years?

Toward a Critical Color Theory; Black American Women’s Writing and Color

This is a call for proposals to participate in a proposed panel at MLA in Toronto in January 2026.

Higher education had three socially pertinent effects in previous eras of capitalist development. It: offered graduates a pathway to upward mobility; conferred a “stake” in normative society such that graduates could “buy into” the dominant economic systems from which they stood to benefit; and was an incubator for mass social and political movements such as the 1960s student movement.

But much recent fiction evinces a change in attitudes to university – a weakening of the assumption that higher education is a pathway to social mobility for the individual and social justice/progress for the collective.

As we prepare to launch the tenth issue of our academic journal, we invite submissions for a special issue dedicated to the theme of Polyphony.

Why Polyphony? 

Polyphony—the coexistence of multiple, independent voices—offers a compelling lens through which to explore the interconnected perspectives in scholarship and creativity. Ideas do not develop in isolation; they emerge through conversation, contradiction, and resonance across disciplines, generations, and methodologies. Our journal has always nurtured interdisciplinary engagement, and Polyphony allows us to celebrate this fully by embracing the richness of intellectual and artistic dialogue.

On behalf of the English Graduate Association at the University of Idaho, this is a reminder that all abstracts for the 2025 University of Idaho Graduate English Conference are due on February 24, 2025. All graduate students are invited to submit an abstract for work that is relevant to the conference theme, “What Fuels Feeling?: Multidisciplinary Studies of Emotions and the Elements”. While the English Department is hosting this conference, we are seeking work from graduate students of all disciplines. 

We are excited to host Nicole Seymour from California State University as our keynote speaker for this conference.