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L.M. Montgomery and Change

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:14pm
L.M. Montgomery Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island,
24-28 June 2026

“It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.” — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”— L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Is it really the same world I saw then that I see now? It seems so very different.” — L.M. Montgomery, Selected Journals vol. I

“The only constant in life is change.” —Heraclitus

 

Extinction and Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts (Conference Panel)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) Conference: Oulu, Finland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

In Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew insist that capturing the breadth of a disaster of this scale is “an inherently interdisciplinary task, one that draws us into conversation with a host of different ways of making sense of others’ world” (4). To portray this polycrisis as too large to be contained to one discipline is apt, with credible estimates designating between one- and two-thirds of species on earth as “likely to disappear within the foreseeable future” (Myers et al., 856).

Call for Papers: Latin American Fandoms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us to explore the representation (Aranda et al., 2013) and appropriation (Yucra-Quispe et al., 2022) of national content (telenovelas and narcocorridos) as well as content from other countries, whether it be movies or streaming platforms.    

Crises of the Self, Selves in Crisis: Personal, Collective, and Planetary Narratives across Forms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

International Conference on Global Best Practices in Education

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY) DELHI NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Education systems worldwide are undergoing significant transformations driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving societal needs. Exploring global best practices in education offers valuable insights into strategies that enhance teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and institutional excellence. This international conference aims to bring together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and learn from exemplary educational practices that have proven successful in diverse cultural and institutional contexts.

Objectives

  1. To identify and analyze global best practices in education that enhance learning outcomes.

MLA 2026 call for paper:Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
Claire Rodan/ University of Maryland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Panel Title: Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film E-mail Address: claire.yijiec@gmail.com Description & Requirements: This panel explores how speculative discourses around AI, quantum physics, or the multiverse influence representations of identity and consciousness in Asian American literature and film. Submit abstracts to Erin Suzuki: esuzuki@ucsd.edu ; Claire Rodan: cchen200@umd.edu Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025 

Books That Teach Us About Character - Free Literary Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
LitFest in the Dena 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

Technology and Late-19th- and Early-20th-century American Literature

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:10pm
MLA forum on Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.

The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.

Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.

SSAWW 2025: “The History and Future of Author Societies"

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society seeks proposals for a roundtable discussion at the next meeting of SSAWW, held in Philadelphia from November 6-9, 2025.  The theme of this year’s SSAWW is “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW.”  With this theme in mind, our roundtable is titled “The History and Future of Author Societies.”  The roundtable will ideally consist of participants from various author societies, who will discuss anticipated changes and relevance for author societies, talking about both their histories and their imagined futures.  We imagine this roundtable will examine many of the important elements highlighted in the call for papers for the conference, including the way that author societies create communities to “en

2025 Ceræ Call For Papers – Conference & Journal

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Ceræ - An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to both CFPs that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.

Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: Queer Cultures of the Hispanic World: 19th and 20th Centuries

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over time? What networks or collaborations sustained them in and beyond Spain and Latin America? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios in English or Spanish.

 

Submission deadline: March 10, 2025 

 

Contact information: 

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U, KS (jzamostny@ksu.edu

“A Conversation about Coalition Building: The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis”

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:08pm
Margaret Fuller Society at 2025 SSAWW
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

“A Conversation about Coalition Building:

The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis”

organized by the Margaret Fuller Society

 

2025 SC State Intersectional Studies Remote Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:08pm
Department of English and Communications at SC State
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

CFP: 2025 International Remote ISC at SC State 

March 28, 2024 via Zoom

Crossing Borders: Building Bridges in Today’s Global Community

 

The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for individual twenty-minute papers/presentations for the 2025 Intersectional Studies Remote Conference via Zoom on Friday, March 28, 2025.

 

International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 11:27am
Yanli He (Sichuan University, Harvard University), Fabio Akcelrud Durão (State University of Campinas),Yingchun Dong (Guanxi Minzu University), Tingting Sun (Yunan University of Finance and Economics)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?”

Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric Larsen (Aarhus University), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)

The Affordances of Frustrating Narratives (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 10:09am
Isidora Cortes-Monroy & Daniel Aureliano Newman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction and film (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more practical, didactic or ideological aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc.

Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 9:08am
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in collaboration with Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy & Department of English, Central University of Karnataka, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers for 5th International e-Conference

Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences

Conference Dates: 4th October – 05th October, 2024 (Friday & Saturday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 1:12am
The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

The American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK)

October 17-18, 2025

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mel Y. Chen, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ok Yeon Yi, Seoul National University, Korea 

African and African Americans and Labor

updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 9:36pm
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Alone Together

updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 2:53pm
Queens College English MA Program
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Annual Queens College English MA Conference

 

ALONE TOGETHER

  

Conference Date: March 10, 2025

Abstract Submission Deadlines:  Feb 8, 2025

 

 

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 2:30pm
The Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

 

May 10th and 11th, 2025

Online via Zoom

 

With keynote addresses by:

Dr Michael P. Bibler

(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])

and

Dr Laura Rattray

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 8:57am
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ...

This * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.

In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?

How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?

Contributors are invited to consider:

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 2:02pm
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures an Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

 

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

 

"Postmemory and the Contemporary World" 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 12:55pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

Conference online: 27-28 February 2025

​CFP: 

Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s  way of seeing the world.

Graduate Conference at JHU: Unraveling the Archive

updated: 
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 11:48am
Johns Hopkins University Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Students
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Archives are valuable sites of memory and knowledge, as well as sites of violence and power. In a hyper-saturated world of post-truth and fake news, archives provide a powerful tool to understand the past, interpret the present and imagine better futures. Following Walter Benjamin’s saying, scholars have a responsibility to “brush history against the grain” when delving into archival documents, to find what is absent or hidden and make it speak again. This conference presents scholars with the opportunity to explore various questions that arise when facing archives as dynamic sites of memory: How do we challenge and deal with archives as sites of power? How can queer and marginal subjects be found or salvaged in archives that erase their presence?

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