The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host the 2023 symposium on “Pandemic, Environment, and Life Writing” on campus on April 21-22, 2023.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Jennifer Ho, Eaton Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for

Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of

California at Irvine

Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classic and Modern Arabic Literature and of

Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University

Dr. Aretha Phiri, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhodes, South Africa

The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry.

WITCHES IN POPULAR CULTURE

For a volume that will be part of Lexington Books' series "Villains and Creatures" that will soon be under consideration by the publisher, we are looking for chapters (6,000 to 7,000 words long) on the representation of witches in popular media such as comics, TV series and videogames. We are particularly interested in the representation of witches in the OZ films and novels as well as in Marvel comics. 

Please send 300 word abstracts to Dr. Antonio Sanna at isonisanna@hotmail.com by the 15th of January 2025. Chapters will be due quite later this year.

For any further question, please do not hesitate to contact me immediately.

Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on The Politics of the Soundtrack

Editors: K. J. Donnelly (University of Southampton, UK), Jady Jiang (Wenzhou University of Technology, China), and Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase College, US)

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Monarch of All I Survey:” Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies

International Conference 

Date: Nov. 20-21, 2025
Venue: ENS de Lyon, France

Keynote speakers:

-       Julia Kühn (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

-       Nicholas Spengler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

“I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute,

From the center all round to the sea,

Early Modern Temporalities
Graduate Early Modern Student Society Eighth Annual Symposium
Friday, April 25, 2025
TBD, UW-Madison & Hybrid over Zoom

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jessica Keating (Associate Professor of Art History, Art and Art History, Carleton College)

Date: 18-19 September 2025

Venue: Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 Place Paul-Ricoeur, Paris

Call for Papers: Susan Stryker and Trans Studies, A Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/afs_susan-stryker-trans-studies/

Conference on Community Writing™
“Designing Justice Across Space, Place, and Time”Detroit, MI
October 23-25, 2025Sponsored by Wayne State University and Michigan State UniversityCall for Proposals Submit a Proposal Here Deadline for proposal submissions: Monday, February 17, 2025

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Annual Academic Conference 2025 

15th - 17th March, 2025

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institue of Technology Madras

Conference Theme: Risk, Precarity, and Vulnerability 

Lagos Studies Association Conference 2025

Nigerian Digital Entertainment: The Cultural and Social Implications of Drama Skits

The 9th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference

Conference Theme: Continuities and Discontinuities in African Studies

Date: June 17-21, 2025

Format: Hybrid (In Person, University of Lagos/Zoom)

Abstract Deadline: January 1, 2025.

Panel Organizers & Chair: Kolawole Olaiya, Anderson University, South Carolina (Email: woleolami@yahoo.com) and Anthony Adah, Minnesota State University, (Email: tony.adah@gmail.com)

The International David Foster Wallace Society will sponsor two panels at this year’s ALA; one will be a roundtable focusing on the 20th anniversary of This is Water, and the other is a traditional panel of papers.

Please send abstracts no more than 300 words, a short biography, and any a/v needs to info@dfwsociety.org no later than January 10, 2025. Please indicate ALA25 in your subject line. Updates will be posted to dfwsociety.org and the society’s social media pages (@dfwsociety).

Roundtable:

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The Nineteenth-Century section of Jagiellonian University’s Comparative Literature Student Society cordially invites students and PhD researchers to the international conference entitled ‘Nineteenth-Century Minor Literatures’. We seek to create a space to explore texts existing outside the mainstream of the long nineteenth century.

We welcome papers related to the following research areas: