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Postcolonial and Decolonial studies permanent section MMLA 2025

updated: 
Monday, March 17, 2025 - 8:43pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

MMLA 2025 Milwaukee, WI

Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies permanent section

Deadline for submission: April 10th

The Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives." This will be an in-person panel.

We are looking for papers that respond to the conference's theme from the perspective of postcolonial and/or decolonial studies. 

From the conference’s website,

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, March 17, 2025 - 6:55am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 23, 2025

The Function of Beauty: A Transdisciplinary Conference

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

Conference Dates: April 24-25, 2025
Location:

Day 1-Pembroke Lodge (Richmond Park, London) / Online (Hybrid Format)

Day 2- Online only
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025
Cost: 180 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)

 

CFP:International Young Researchers' Conference on Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 1:23pm
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)

on

Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology

Organised by

PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell

In collaboration with

IQAC

Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India

5th April, 2025

 

 

Concept Note

MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism [DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 29]

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 12:55pm
Sophie Yates, University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 29, 2025

This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little ReviewThe Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 4:55am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus and DOAJ.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 1:58am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Call for papers: Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 1:57am
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies 

Special IssueGlobal thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment

Guest editor

Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025 - 1:56am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarUniversity of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Death and Health in Literary & Cultural Studies - Conference Panel

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:37pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The SAMLA conference is taking place in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November, 6 – Saturday, November, 8, 2025 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. The proposed panel dovetails directly with this year’s conference theme “Knowledge.” Even as the past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond.

MLA 2026 Convention Panel Session - American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health Matters

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:35pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Uselessness in Contemporary Fiction (proposed panel for MLA 2026 in Toronto)

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 1:43pm
Daniel Bergman / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025

This panel seeks proposals for papers that reflect on uselessness as a motif in post-1960 Anglophone literature. What sorts of aesthetic, political, and/or ethical stances do contemporary texts frame as useless, and why? Is uselessness conceivable as a literary or political end in itself? Topics that might be specifically addressed include, but are not limited to: modernist vs. postmodernist approaches to uselessness (how do they differ? Where do they overlap?); the affect(s) of contemporary uselessness; uselessness as a product of (or response to) AI technologies; and the pedagogical value of uselessness. Submissions that contest the viability of "uselessness" as a ground for literary and political critique are also very welcome.   

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 9:19am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

 

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 6:29am
English Graduate Student Body, University of Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Deadline extended: March 15, 2025.

 

28th Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Student Conference 

University of Mississippi

July 26th-27th, 2025

Call for Submissions

Intersecting Ecologies: Environmental Studies in the U.S. and Global South

 

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 3:22am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025 - 3:21am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Online 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

Existence and Coexistence in the Age of Crises

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 10:58pm
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 

Modernist Cosmopolitanism

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 8:48pm
Modernist Studies Association 2025 Boston Oct.9-12
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Modernist Cosmopolitanism

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
Conference Date: MSA 2025 Boston October 9-12
Organized by: Adriana Fischetti, CCNY, 2nd year graduate student

Modernism has long been associated with transnational exchanges, migratory identities, and an engagement with global cultures. The modernist period witnessed an unprecedented interplay between local traditions and global influences, as writers, artists, and intellectuals navigated new cultural landscapes shaped by colonialism, war, exile, and technological advancement.

CfP: Democratisation of Space conference, Norrköping, Sweden. 26-28 November 2025.

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Linköping Space Studies Institute @ Linköping Universitetet
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

 

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private? 

Disrupting Forms

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ampersand: An American Studies Journal

Volume III, No. 2 (Summer 2025)

Disrupting Forms  

Oh, the (Digital) Humanity!: Building a Collaborative Future

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Scaffold: the Journal for the Institute of Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

Since the early days of computational text analysis in the 1940s, the digital humanities has been a space designed for cross and interdisciplinary work. From using digital tools and software to enhance research across the humanities, to using them to create new kinds of research in those same fields, the digital humanities has long been at the forefront of new and exciting research. 

Writing with the Gods: African Influences in African American and Caribbean Literature

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Camille Alexander/Tuskegee University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Editors are seeking contributions to an edited collection titled, Writing with the Gods. This collection of original essays focuses on literary representations of African-influenced religions and spiritual traditions in African-American and Caribbean Literature, such as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Conjure, Obeah, Vodou, Santeria, Myal, and Candomble.  

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

“Queer Journeys in North American Literature and Culture”

University of Innsbruck (Austria), November 14-15, 2025  

Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Maitrayee Roychoudhury
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The conference, "Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century" will be held on 28-29 August 2025 at the School of English, University of St Andrews, and is supported by funding from the British Association for Victorian Studies.

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