Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, March 7–8, 2025. 

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

La Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo garte Chamorro” (ENSAD), hoy Universidad de Arte Escénico (UNAE), invita a la comunidad académica dedicada a la crítica y estudio de las artes escénicas a presentar sus artículos de investigación (en castellano y en inglés) para su publicación en la revista Liminal. Los artículos de investigación deben cumplir los estándares y requisitos de publicación de la revista: http://revistas.ensad.edu.pe/index.php/liminal/directrices

Si necesita mayor información puede escribirnos al siguiente correo electrónico: revistas@ensad.edu.pe

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

Occult Artifice, Esoteric Intelligence, and Magical Generation

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper presentation proposals for a special panel investigating intersections between artifice, intelligence, generation and generativity, and esoteric, occult, and magical practices and worldviews.

Set and Setting: Magical Spaces and Places

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals regarding the role that location plays in operative esoteric, occult, and magical practice. This panel will be included in Area events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference

BWWC 2025

TRANSFORMATIONS

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

May 15–17, 2025

Hosted by South Dakota State University and The University of South Dakota

Deadline for submission of proposals: December 15, 2024

Whitman’s Legacies

The Research Laboratory in Literature, Language, Culture and Communication (RLLLCC)

organizes

an International Conference on

Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society

April 22-23, 2025

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities,

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal - Morocco

Call for Papers

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

Special Panel on Preternatural Undeath in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia

June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.

Call for Papers

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025.

We are interested in critical, pedagogical, and creative pieces that explore the Netflix series from a wide variety of angles and approaches, including: plague studies, the history of medicine and science, premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, adaptation theory, and so on. We particularly welcome pieces that consider how the series helps us think more about our own time, including but not limited to: 

• How pandemics (re)shape art and the world;

We are seeking a limited number of essays to complete an edited collection exploring the connections between the gothic genre and literary modernism. Inspired by the work of scholars such as Sam Wiseman, Linda Dryden, David Punter, and the late John Paul Riquelme, this collection will consider how and why gothic elements such as dark doubles, the uncanny, the return of the repressed, haunted spaces, etc. enter modernist writing.