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Call for Book Chapters
African Literature and the Resilience of Love: Indigenous Intimacies as Resistance in Historical and Global Contexts
Submission Email: africanliteratureandlovebook@gmail.com
Editor: Azzeddine Tajjiou
2026 NeMLA Annual Convention
March 5-8, 2026
Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
Call for Papers for in-person panel:
On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the United States of America, this panel seeks papers that examine US national identity as it is represented in textual form. Specifically, we seek papers that analyze literary texts—novels, stories, poems, and plays—that speak to the characteristics of American identity and ultimately offer an answer to the question, “What does it mean to be ‘American’?”
Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria
Deadline for Submissions:
4th August 2025
full name / name of organization:
Prof Shuchi Sharma
(Professor, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)
Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)
Ms. Mitali Bhattacharya
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)
contact email:
folk.songs.2026@gmail.com
We would like to remind you that there are only a few days left to submit proposals for the I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025, at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto.
The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference
Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Call For Participation
Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.
This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments.
CFP Performing Wilderness Volume
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The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.”
The International Toy Research Association (ITRA) invites proposals for the 10th ITRA World Conference to be held in Augsburg Germany 5-7 August, 2026. The overarching conference theme is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games.
Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 December, 2025
Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are. They inspire our play and fuel our development, both as individuals and members of society. As both carriers and changemakers of culture, toys represent and influence the collective spirit of their times – the Zeitgeist.
FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025
This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).
SPEED
Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)
Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling
Guest Editor: Hairong Chen
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
(Edited Volume)
“What’s the name of the game?” ABBA, Northernness and Pop Culture
19-20th March 2026, Université de Lorraine, Nancy
This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts. Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text. The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences. What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts
This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts. Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text. The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences. What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts
Concept Note:
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
27-28 November 2025
International Conference
“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)
In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination
Overview
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.2 - 2025 & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The 2025 issues are open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
Guest Reviewers
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.
New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise.
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation
Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India
Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"
Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025
THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT
International Scholarly Conference
10–12 September 2025
Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland
April 23–25, 2026
PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).
PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.
All disciplines and approaches welcome.
The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.
Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India
Submission Guidelines: