The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling." 

                  Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation.  The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical. 

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

Conference Call for Papers

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

#Kingston2025

October 28th and 29th 2025

Call For Papers

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot

Birthing Stories:  Silence, Trauma, and The Power of Narratives in Clinical Care

                                                                              Devaleena Das and Jessica Gildersleeve

when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive.— Audre Lorde

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.— Barbara Katz Rothman

Appel à communications/Call for papers

Climas (EA 4196) 

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026

La révision/Revision

Organisateurs/organizers : 

Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard 

(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

CFP (edited volume): 13 Exigencies for Teaching the Essay

The premise of this anticipated panel is that Areopagitica is a critical text for our age, so it’s time to reconsider it. John Milton’s 1644 argument against pre-publication censorship is lauded by some as an absolute defense of freedom of speech. But Areopagitica also advocates suppression of Catholic writings and allows for destruction of most everything else after its publication. Scholars have long considered whether this text provides a resource for advocates of freedom of expression and the press, a model of totalitarianism, or something else entirely. How might our own age of media revolution and debates about intellectual freedom recast our understanding of Areopagitica and its legacies?

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers considering any aspect of John Milton’s writings, their reception, and their significance for a proposed panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, held February 19-21, 2026. In the spirit of the RSA, we also welcome papers that bring into dialogue Milton Studies and areas of research across the Renaissance world, including literature, philosophy, art and music. Send your paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2025.

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 82nd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina-Columbia and held from Friday, September 19 to Saturday, September 20, 2025. 

The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.

How to Submit

CfP Between XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism” 

Edited by:
Simona Beccone (University of Pisa), Sofia Morabito (University of Pisa), Daniela Pierucci (University of Pisa), Matteo Zupancic (University of Pisa).

Submission deadline: 30 November 2025.
Peer-review (est.): February 2026.
Publication Date: 30 May 2026.