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Nabokov’s defense of personal freedom is well documented, but little has been written about his social commitments. Papers are invited on Nabokov’s works demonstrating concern for others: family, community, hospitality, mutual aid, solidarity, etc. Please send 250-word proposals by March 21.
Kente: Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts invites scholars, researchers, and literary critics to contribute to a Special Issue focusing on the representation of climate and environmental issues in African literature. As climate change poses significant challenges worldwide, African communities face unique environmental impacts, including desertification, flooding, and resource conflicts. These experiences are increasingly reflected in African literary works, offering nuanced perspectives on ecological crises, cultural adaptations, and social resilience.
Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue
Comparative Cinema - Call For Papers Nº 25 (Winter 2025)
The Body Without Limit: The "Monstrous-Feminine" in Spanish Cinema
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its eighth biennial conference, which will take place March 12-14, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati, Ohio. We invite individual papers and group proposals on literature and culture in the United States, the Americas and beyond during the long nineteenth century.
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)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
17-19 September 2025
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)
This guaranteed session sponsored by the Screen Arts and Culture Forum considers films that engage the idea of film history. Possibilities: films that sample other cinematic works, retell or revise cinematic history, or theorize archives.
Submit 350 word abstracts and 50 word bios by March 15.
Inviting papers on 21st century reconstructions of the HIV/AIDS crisis. What is created/erased in these productions? Possible topics: teaching the HIV/AIDS crisis to a post-covid generation; reading race in the HIV/AIDS archive; recent literature/film/tv productions. 250-word abstracts.
Victorians and Victorian Literature Abroad—Special Issue Call For Papers
The Journal of Sanātana Dharma hereby announces the Call for Submissions for its inaugural issue as we look forward to contributions from academicians, traditional scholars, and all kinds of Indic seekers. For further details, check our website: https://josd.info
https://www.uprm.edu/nuevoshorizontes/2025/02/21/convocatoria-para-artic...
Cultura Visual de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
Fecha límite: 1 de agosto de 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS: James Baldwin Review
Modern Language Association
2026 MLA Convention
January 8-11, 2026
James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism
Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it.
Seeking papers that explore complex relationships between texts and their translations (beyond traditional binaries like "original-
representation," "source-target," etc.) and how such connections shape our approaches to literature, language, and culture. Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief CV.
Sponsored by the Adaptation Studies Forum, this guaranteed panel in the upcoming 2026 Modern Language Association conference will explore the intersection of race and adaptation, focusing particularly on film. The panel will engage in dialogue about how filmic adaptations convey, obscure, and transform racial meanings. They will also connect this conversation about racial representations in filmic adaptations to the theoretical question of how race, racism, and antiracism adapt to changing conditions, manifesting in new forms in new social contexts. We will pay particular attention to the dynamic of racial representation in film, a medium that critics such as Richard Dyer have shown to be influential in creating racial imaginaries.
Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium
Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture
Date: 19 September 2025
Location: Online
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)
We welcome papers and performances from scholars, artists, and activists interested in exploring this theme in broad theoretical, practical, and cultural terms. We will consider the predicaments and possibilities of “Land” in the context of Maroon and Indigenous histories and cultures worldwide. Presentations from all fields and genres are welcome, including history, geography, political science, anthropology, ethnography, law & criminal justice, ethnomusicology, education, literature, film, art, sustainability studies, Indigenous studies, economics, spirituality, religion, and ecocriticism.
We are excited to announce the upcoming International Conference on Regional Language, Literature, and Culture: A Vision of Developed Bharat-Shining Bharat, which will be held on 3rd-4th April 2025 at Galgotias University, Greater Noida. This prestigious event is proudly sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and aims to celebrate and showcase the rich diversity of India’s regional languages, literatures, and cultures, while contributing to the vision of a culturally vibrant and cohesive Bharat.
Call for Papers:
The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference: Witches in Culture, History, and Society
Friday 20th June 2025
York St. John University
Submission Deadline: 1st April 2025
"I put a lot more value on the animal than I do my name" - The (Un)Importance of Inheritance in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove
Of all the turbulent family relationships found within Larry McMurtry's novels, Lonesome Dove (1985) contains perhaps their bleakest depiction. From dead mothers, distant fathers and misunderstood inheritences, fractured families abound throughout the Lonesome Dove tetralogy and its adaptations, bringing a level of irony to the miniseries' status as a family classic.
MLA 2026 – Toronto
Early American Literature LLC
Declaring Dependence
Short Description:
What happens when we center dependence, interconnection, and shattered subjectivities in the literary cultures that have been used to mark or substantiate figments of agency surrounding the early United States?
Long Description:
Eighty Years of the Moomins: Approaches to Tove Jansson’s Life and Her Work
“It all began with the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood, published in 1945” (https://www.moomin.com/en/moomin80/). To celebrate the 80-year-old Moomins, FinnFest USA is organizing a panel on Tove Jansson as part of the Moomin conference theme during this year’s FinnFest in Duluth, Minnesota, July 31–August 3, 2025.
Dear Researchers,
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for IEEE AI-Standard 2025 – The IEEE Conference on AI Standardization and Quality Assurance. This conference provides a global platform for AI researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, and technology developers to discuss and shape the future of AI standardization, governance, and quality assurance.
Conference Details
The Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, in collaboration with the PhD program in History and Transmission of Cultural Heritage, is organising the First International Doctoral Conference titled ‘Traces, Reflections, and Signs: Dynamics of Transmission’, which will take place in Naples on September 24th, 25th, and 27th, 2025. The conference is part of the Perspectives and Memories project: a cycle of conferences that can promote discussion on the theme of the transmission of cultural heritage in the humanities, creating a stable space for dialogue that will grow over time.
CFP Contemporary Feminism and the Politics of Emotion
Proposed Panel Submission for NWSA 2025 Conference dates: Nov. 13th-16th, 2025
Submission Deadline: March 15th
XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference
“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”
(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025
PANEL 4
American Requiem: “Cowboy Carter” and Black Feminist Imaginings of the South-West
Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) mariagiovanna.fusco@univaq.it
Giuseppe Polise (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) giuseppe.polise@univaq.it
The Department of English at Mahatma Gandhi Central University is pleased to announce a Two-Day International Conference titled:
"Age Cannot Wither Him, Nor Custom Stale His Infinite Variety: Shakespeare Adaptation up to the 21st Century"
This conference will be held in a hybrid mode on 10-11 March 2025.
Concept Note
The Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM) and the National Endowment for Financial Education are happy to announce the 2025 edition of the Stanford Financial Education Symposium (formerly Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute). It will be held on April 10-11, 2025, during Financial Literacy Month in the U.
For the first time since its inception in 1993, the Lesbian Lives Conference is crossing the Atlantic to New York City! The conference is hosted by the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Sinister Wisdom, and CLAGS: the Center for LGBT Studies at the City University of New York. Lesbian Lives brings together academics, artists, writers, and activists to showcase, enjoy, and critically analyze lesbian culture.
Rooted in an ethos of inclusivity, dialogue, diversity, and accessibility, the conference welcomes people of all sexualities and genders.
Lesbian Lives 2025 will be held on October 24 and 25 at the Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10016.
Last year marked the centenary of both the Republic of Turkey and James Baldwin, yet Baldwin’s time in Istanbul (1960–71) remains an understudied period in his literary and intellectual life. This panel seeks to explore Baldwin’s "Turkish decade" beyond exile narratives, and focuses on how his engagement with Istanbul’s artistic, literary, and queer communities shaped his work and political thought. How did Baldwin’s experiences in Turkey influence his evolving critique of race, sexuality, and transnational belonging? How might we rethink Baldwin’s literary and activist legacy through the lens of his Istanbul years?