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Call for Papers for dialog no 45 (spring 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:20pm
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:

 

Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:19pm
Shakespeare's Globe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 21, 2025

 Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been­—and continue to be—recorded, erased or obscured.

Thomas Nashe and Voice

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:02pm
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This two-day conference, sponsored by the Faculty of English and St John’s College, Cambridge, invites proposals for papers on Thomas Nashe and voice. Papers might consider orality and performance; typographic representation of dialogue; gesture and non-verbal speech; heteroglossia and genre hybridity; point of view, narrative perspective, and focalization; style, parody, and mimicry; and Nashe’s use of multiple authorial personae and narratorial surrogates.

CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person) (7/24/2025; MAPACA Philadelphia 11/6-8/2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:00pm
Michael Torregrossa / e Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Call for Papers

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)

Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference 

Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

6-8 November 2025

 

The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025. 

 

Henri Bergson: Memory and Intuition

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:32pm
PAMLA: Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A New Collection of Essays

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:31pm
Jericho Williams / University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

2027 will be the 50th anniversary of Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison’s third novel and one of the author’s more popular books alongside The Bluest Eye and Beloved.

This forthcoming volume of essays will provide new readings of the novel for high school and undergraduate readers just in time for Song of Solomon’s 50th anniversary. 

It seeks to advance Morrison studies and foster critical appreciation of the novel, especially in light of new directions in literary criticism since 2010.

CSECS 2025 (deadline extended)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 2:31pm
University of Regina
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Second Call For Papers

 

CFP:  Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle

 

2025 Conference:  Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries

Location: Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan

15-18 October, 2025

 

Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025

Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca

 

Conference Details

 

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026 Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s)

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 5:20am
From the European South journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026

Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s) 

Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)

CFP : International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 9:18pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 19, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

*** May Issue***

Submission System 

 Scope & Topics                                                  

Muslims in American

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 7:22pm
SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

Early Scholars Publication Grants: Translating Cultures (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 4:15pm
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age

Rhetorical Theory (PAMLA Standing Session Ext. Deadline)

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 4:14pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu

 

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description 

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***Intersectionality, Immigration, and the Humanities in Contemporary Discourses and Narratives

updated: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:45am
CERSHO, Mohammed I University, Oujda
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.

Panel for 2025 PAMLA (San Francisco): Modern Hispanic Queer Cultures

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Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 6:47pm
Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?

Studies on Vertigo (1958)

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 2:54pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.

The Power or Powerlessness of Knowledge

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:56pm
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.

PAMLA 2025: Navigating Graduate School: You're ABD, Now What? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:52pm
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.

International Conference on Food Studies: "Culinary Evolutions"

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:51pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"

London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2025 
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk

Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:29am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:52am
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025

Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata

Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal

Academic partner - British Council  

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025

  • Keynotes

Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London

Justin Jones, University of Oxford

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:53pm
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

PAMLA 2025 Panel (standing session): Gothic

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 11:14am
Melanie A. Marotta, College of William & Mary / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 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.

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** 2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:51am
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.

Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels

Individuals may only submit one paper.

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