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PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Diverse Francophonie

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

EXTENDED DEADLINE - JUNE 30

Call for Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:32pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026.  The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.

The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 1:24pm
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries around the world.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have 50 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 1:24pm
The Handbook of Trans Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Seeking the chapters "Trans Cinema from the United States" and "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. These are the final chapters needed to complete the handbook.

We have over 70 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents.

Your chapter "Trans Cinema from the United States" or "Trans Cinema from the United Kingdom" should provide a broad survey and analysis of films with transgender themes from the respective country, while also examining at least three films in depth. 

Call for Abstracts: Barbie in Latin America (Special Issue)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:53pm
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Barbie in Latin America

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: August 15, 2025
Edited by: Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez(West Chester University of Pennsylvania) and M. Paula Bontempo(National Science and Technology Research Council and the National University Arturo Jauretche)

Bloomsbury's Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 11:15am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. More than 100 books have already appeared in the series.

Works that explore environmental issues through literatures, oral traditions, and cultural/media practices around the world are welcome. The series features books by established ecocritics that examine the intersection of theory and practice, including both monographs and edited volumes. Contemporary and historical works are equally appropriate.

Proposals are invited in the range of topics covered by ecocriticism, including but not limited to works informed by

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 11:15am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 11:14am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. More than 30 books have already appeared in the series.

Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination (SAMLA 2025/In-person)

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 10:10am
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention 2025.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

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"


 

NeMLA 2026 Panel: The Volcanic Imagination in Print and Visual Culture, 1780s-1880s

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Volcanic matter really matters. During a one hundred year span from the 1780s to 1880s, a series of volcanic eruptions occurred that altered the atmosphere, disrupted weather conditions, and caused unprecedented loss due to famine and widespread disease: Laki Iceland (1783-1784); Vesuvius, Italy (1794); Pico Viejo, Canary Islands (1798); Tambora, Indonesia (1815); Ferdinandea, Sicily (1831); Hekla, Iceland (1840, 1845); and Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883). Various critics have written about the systemic effects geologically, meteorologically, and ecologically such as Richard Altick, David Higgins, Monique Morgan, Marilynn Olsen, Nicholas Robbins, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Gillen D’Arcy Wood.

NeMLA 2026 Roundtable: Reading as a Political Act: Exploring the Confluence of Literacy and Politics

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Daniel C. Charlton / Montana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

From book bans to executive orders, the question of academic freedom and the freedom to read has become increasingly urgent. In the wake of the 2024 election, debates around “parental rights” and ideological control have intensified, fueling challenges to literacy and intellectual freedom. According to preliminary data from the American Library Association, 1,128 unique titles were challenged between January 1 and August 31, 2024 (“American Library Association reveals preliminary data on 2024 book challenges,” September 23, 2024).

The (Re)generation of the Nonhuman: Nature and Text in Dialogue

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
Israel Eweka/NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The last decade has seen a surge in scholarly interdisciplinarity, exploring the nonhuman in a broad range of critical perspectives. Whether through Glenworth et al (2024)’s conservationist prism which contextualises ‘Rewilding’ as a way of restoring ‘non-human autonomy’; or perhaps, through Bram Büscher (2021)’s capitalist reflections on nature’s alienation and entanglement, both of which are recent approaches that seek to champion the cause of ‘decentering the human in favor of a concern for the nonhuman’ (Grusin, 2015: 1), we see a growing pace of intersectionality within which nature and literature are brazenly intertwined.

Margins of Edibility: Non-food in Postcolonial South Asian Literatures Edited Volume — Call for Abstracts

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57am
University of Würzburg and IIT Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Food, in any society, is defined as much by what is consumed as by what is excluded. The concept of edibility is shaped not only by nourishment or taste but also by cultural, religious, political, and social boundaries. This edited volume investigates non-food—items or substances that are technically ingestible but culturally rejected, stigmatized, or taboo—in postcolonial South Asian literature. From famine-induced substitutes to ritually impure matter, we seek to explore how literary representations of non-food reflect evolving dynamics of power, identity, and cultural values in a region deeply shaped by colonialism and its afterlives.

Embodied Experience, Emotions, and Creativity

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:25am
Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Dear Colleagues,"Interface" calls for papers for a conference on the topic: Embodied Experience, Emotions, and CreativityConference Date: September  17-19, 2025Conference Place: Doğuş University, Istanbul, TurkeyAbstract Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025 "Interface" would like to thank Trier University (Centre for Advanced Studies "Poetry in Transition”), Kobe University (Graduate School of Humanities), and Seoul National University (Institute of Classical Studies) for their kind support and co-operation in organizing this conference. 

Art as resistance: protest as art, art as protest

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:24am
Meredith Martin / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

An online panel on the art of protest and political dissent. This includes artists who engage in socio-political protest through their work, or protestors who use art to disseminate their message.

The Politics of Pessimism

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 8:39am
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 

“Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programmeof complete disorder” (27) 
 
—Frantz Fanon, The Wretched OfThe Earth 

 

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 7:27am
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Playing the Field VI: Video Games and Labour

University of Bucharest, Romania

19-21 March 2026

(in-person)

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Helen W Kennedy (University of Sheffield)

Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø)

Maria Mandea

 

Call for Book Chapter_Green Humanities: Eco-Diaspora, Indigenous Resilience & Literary Cartographies

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 5:20am
Shrabanti Kundu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

 

  • Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 

  • Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere. A signed self-declaration of originality is required. AI-generated content is strictly prohibited.

 

Call for papers: An Awkward Marriage: Considering the serial killer’s social standing in a changing British culture

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 3:57am
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 29, 2025

Great Britain has a rich and varied history when it comes to true crime. This statement applies as much to the crimes themselves as it does to media producers’ coverage of them. While a global canon of true crime is forming, there has to date still been an emphasis placed on Western narratives according to American culture, with crimes from this region dominating media attention. However, Britain itself has a long history of true crime that warrants further critical attention, to include some of the most prolific serial killers within the genre: Fred and Rose West; Harold Shipman; John Christie; Dennis Nilsen; and, more recently, and controversially, Lucy Letby.

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Monday, June 16, 2025 - 12:35am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:37am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

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.

Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025 - 8:36am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

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. 

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