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CFP - Edited Volume: Female and queer bodies in speculative fiction and visual culture
Edited by María Gil Poisa (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Débora Madrid Brito (University of La Laguna, Spain)
This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.
Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.
UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.
I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:
Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture
The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.
We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.
Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...
**Deadline for submissions extended to February 8th**
IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference
Landscapes of Language and Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format.
La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un
Colloque international :
Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs
Les 22 et 23 mai 2025
ARGUMENTAIRE
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Henry James Society
Modern Language Association Convention
Toronto
8-11 January 2026
The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel.
James on James
Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis
Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Theme
Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.
Dates
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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)
When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS
The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two
currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer
2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and
expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.
About the Spelman Archives:
The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make
available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
From its origins in South African debates about the direction of the anti-apartheid movement, to its reinvention by Cedric Robinson as a theory of race and capital’s world-historical enmeshment, to its contemporary status as a master signifier for left-antiracist critique, racial capitalism is here to stay. Across fields and theories, archives and methods, it circulates as the authorizing ballast for any number of arguments: that capitalism differentiates rather than homogenizes; that anticapitalist politics must proceed from the existential grounding wire of alternative cosmologies; that race names the persistence of feudal social relations in the conceptual, libidinal, and political infrastructures of global modernity.
“Approaching Dystopia”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025
After the Catastrophe. Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives”
Call for contribution: https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/123
The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature.
Contributions can take two forms:
Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.
We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th, 2025. Proposal submissions are due on Saturday, February 1st, 2025, and can be submitted through this form.
Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts
Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:
1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.
2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.
Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.
The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.
CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”
Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.
The formation of the United Nations in 1945 was intended to forestall global wars and inaugurate global peace. Despite its efforts and those of other international and regional organizations, wars have persisted in the 21st century. For instance, in Africa, countries are engulfed in the vortex of armed conflicts from the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to the farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria and the Somali government/Al-Shabab Islamist militant group conflict. This violence is echoed in the post-election tensions between the military and insurgents (Allied Democratic Forces) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just like the post-Tigray War conflicts in Ethiopia.
A Two-Day International Conference on
DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES
March 20-21,2025
Organised by SRM University,Andhra Pradesh, India
Concept Note
Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)
Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies”, are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudies), on 29-30 May 2025.
CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment
University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025
Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve
Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga
Gramma: Journal of Theory and CriticismCALL FOR PAPERS for Volume 31 (2026)
Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.
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
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).