The emergence of modern documentary poetics is often attributed to twentieth-century writers who were interested in redefining the purpose and limits of artistic expression, a redefinition that occurred in the context of labor exploitation, racial violence, and ethnic cleansing. This panel asks participants to consider the nineteenth-century precursors of modern documentary literature. How and to what ends do documents and literature intersect throughout the long nineteenth century? What constitutes a document and how might this definition enable new ways of interrogating issues of race, gender, class, indigeneity, and ethnicity? What formal features and aesthetic innovations emerge during the nineteenth century?

 Physical landscapes and human-environment interactions have long been portrayed in literature and the arts. The modern environmentalist movement, which first appeared in the late nineteenth century and which gained traction in the 1960s, has resulted in a wide variety of fictional and nonfiction works addressing the evolving interaction between humans and the natural world. However, it was only in the early 1990s that “ecocriticism” emerged as a self-conscious critical practice, one that has gone through a variety of designations: environmental criticism, literary-environmental studies, literary ecology, literary environmentalism, green cultural studies or, more recently, environmental humanities.

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions

Democracy has a strange quality, that it is systematically ambiguous. Recently, the ambiguity has led to contestations that has questioned the very foundations of democratic values and principles. The erosion of faith and conflicts around the globe is evidenced through collapse of democratic regimes or call to reform democratic practices to be replaced by more rigid or powerful structures. Many believe the rise in inequality, drastic climate changes, migration, religious fundamentalism and lack of basic facilities and growing social, political and economic insecurities has been some of the factors, that led many to question the legitimacy of democratic institutions and practices.

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association seeks papers exploring English Romanticism (1798 - 1837). The conference will be held at the Centennial by Davenport Hotel in Spokane, WA, from 16 October to 18 October 2025. Please submit abstracts of 250 words and a 60-word bio to JT Rucker at william.rucker10@okstate.edu by 1 April 2025.

The Langston Hughes Society is pleased to invite proposals for the following panel to be held at the 36th Annual American Literature Association (ALA) Conference in Boston, MA:

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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 ongoing—and now significantly escalated—genocide of Palestinian peoples by the Israeli government has been uniquely, painfully, and steadfastly documented and shared for far-flung viewers to instantaneously bear witness to atrocities that might otherwise remain unfathomable to the international community. Palestinian peoples have been recording their own intensified annihilation in a brave, painstaking, persistent, and not-always-intentional manner.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Psychoanalyzing the Post-Apocalypse:

Psychoanalytic Approaches to 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

 New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025) and Volume 23 (4 Issues, 2026).  Any length.  https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made avai

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.

We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 

Please submit a one-page abstract to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.

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 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due on February 1st, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion
Conference dates: 19th and 20th June 2025

Abstract deadline
31st January 2025
Email to:womeninworldlitconference@gmail.com

This hybrid conference follows 2022's ‘Women in World(-)Literature’ which was also held at the University of Warwick.