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Following the highly successful panels at ALA 2025, the Edith Wharton Review is planning a special issue on Edith Wharton and Popular Culture.
We invite papers that explore the theme of memory and reparation, and demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future by focusing on any of the four spheres of reparation: economic, political, cultural, and psychological.
Please send your 200-word abstract in French or English to sawuni@crimson.ua.edu ( Sawel Awuni) and to ldjamess@iu.edu (Lolonyo Djamessi) , along with the title of the paper, your email, your institutional affiliation, and a brief one-paragraph bio. Please send your submission by September 30. Thank you!
Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in both ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. As such, we are holding a cross-disciplinary symposium on contemporary ekphrasis called ‘Ek’.
Hybrid 08: IMITATION | Call for Abstracts
Deadline: June 24, 2025
https://www.indusvalley.edu.pk/research-and-publications
Copy That! – Hybrid 08 Seeks Abstracts on ‘Imitation’
Hybrid, the annual peer-reviewed journal published by the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, invites submissions for Volume 8 centered on the theme ‘Imitation.’
Call for Book Chapters -- Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games deadline for submissions: June 15, 2025 full name / name of organization: Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games contact email: fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com
Call for Book Chapters
on Fans, Fandoms, and Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 15, 2025
Contact email:fans.fandoms.and.ttrpgs@gmail.com
Editors:
Maria K. Alberto, University of Utah
Adrianna Burton, University of California – Irvine
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025
This panel will discuss the historical and contemporary relevance of alternative sources and ways of knowing. From Gnostic spirituality and ancient traditions to the 19th century spiritualist movement, secret organizations and conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge has always stood in stark contrast to traditional means of information gathering and learning. Rather than debunk or ridicule, we will attempt to understand the fascination with alternative ways of knowing and determine the significance of what it means to promote beliefs and thought processes that speak to those who do not find satisfaction with mainstream thought.
Call for Papers
Herkimer County 250th Commission Semi-Quincentennial Conference
Theme: Liberty and the American Revolution
April 24–26, 2026
Herkimer College, 100 Reservoir Road, Herkimer, NY 13350
Conference Director: Sharon Powell, Herkimer College
Conference Fee: TBD
Proposal Deadline: December 31, 2025
Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com
Last date of submission: July 12, 2025
“Everyone belongs to everyone else.”
Special Issue
Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)
Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
Debajyoti Biswas (lead guest editor)
Associate Professor,
Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, India
Email: deb61594@gmail.com ; debajyotibiswas.bu@gmail.com
Pak Nung Wong
Editor-in-Chief, Bandung: Journal of the Global South,
Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies,
University of Bath, Bath, UK
Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Symposium
Case Western Reserve University
Friday, October 31, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Roland Greene, Stanford University
ADE Bulletin Special Issue on Succession Planning: Call for Papers
Timeline:
Abstracts due 9/1/2025
Essays due 8/2026
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025.
SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025
Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"
November 6-7, 2025
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, as part of the FORTHEM Alliance, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for the upcoming Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference, dedicated to exploring cultural heritage within, across, and beyond the European Union’s borders. This year’s theme investigates the dynamics of intercultural, interethnic, and social interactions—especially in regions where boundaries (geographical, political, linguistic, or symbolic) are fluid and contested.
Extended Deadline! There's still time to submit to this conference panel. Submissions will be accepted until June 30, or until the panel is filled.
The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, 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.
Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.
– The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA
The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable.
Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also in how our bodies exist in, encounter, and co-constitute space. Physical space and virtual networks are inextricably intertwined today, such that a space is never purely physical.
We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.
* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.
* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.
Editors:
Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl
Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu
Important Dates:
Overview:
Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025
Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Location: Stanford Humanities Center
The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward?
This panel will consider the spy fiction of John le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge." Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.
This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré. Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television. Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.
2025 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
September 25-27, 2025
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
Keynote Speaker: TBA
CFP: M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism
Modernism/modernity Print+ Cluster
Editors: George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)
Abstracts due: 31 August 2025
Full papers due: 28 February 2026
We seek proposals for original essays that analyze the relationship between modernist artistic forms and the commodity form for a proposed peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity's Print+ platform.
Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism - DEADLINE EXTENDED
(23-25 October 2025)
Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2025 YOUNG SCHOLAR PRIZE
The William James Society (WJS), in conjunction with William James Studies, would like to announce that it will be offering its annual Young Scholar Prize to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought and work of William James.
The prize will include: (1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in March 2025, (2) $750 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) publishing the paper in William James Studies.
Call For PapersThe William James Society and its peer-reviewed journal William James Studies invite article submissions from scholars with diverse interests and approaches to the life and work of William James. We are particularly interested in articles that reflect William James’s work (psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, etc.) as it intersects with modern concerns and interpretive contexts. The William James Society is a multidisciplinary professional society that supports the study of, and communication about, the life and work of James and his ongoing influence in the many fields to which he contributed. William James Studies can be found on several subscription databases, including the Modern Language Association.
4th Annual Conference
February 19–20, 2026
UC Irvine
Keynote Speaker:
Junyoung Verónica Kim, New York University
Early Career Publishing Workshop:
Tina Chen, The Penn State University
https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga26/