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We live in a world where interfaces play an increasingly central role. Interfaces are our means of engaging with both technical and social realities; gradually, they become not only conditions of access to the world of technology but also intrinsic structures of our experience. The interfaces designed by major corporations, game developers, and social application creators set standards of perception and self-awareness, disciplining us and determining the measure of control. This makes it all the more crucial to continue experimenting with interfaces, developing a new semiotic, symbolic, and bodily grammar—a challenge embraced by digital artists, gamers, science fiction writers, and neuromancers of media reality.

For MLA in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026), we welcome contributions on Morris, his associates, and their influence in relation to material culture: the Arts and Crafts movement, the portrayal of objects and environments in literature, and the meanings ascribed to “things.” In addition to seeking new approaches to the work of Morris and his circle in the book arts, stained glass, textiles, architecture, and landscape design, we seek reevaluations of materiality and concrete symbolism within Pre-Raphaelite writings more broadly as reflective of beliefs about identity, permanence, and change. Contributions on Morrisian and Arts and Crafts-related Canadian material culture are especially welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.

The edited volume aims to explore the portrayal of contemporary women’s issues as depicted in Indian regional literature. The focus of the volume is to explore how cultural, social, economic, and political issues affecting women are reflected and represented across various Indian languages and regions. This book seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and gender discourse, emphasizing how literature acts as a mirror to societal transformations and the challenges women face today. The volume will cover diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographies, while also addressing regional variations in themes and representations.

The thematic objectives of this edited volume are as follows:

2025 WOCIA Call for Workshop Proposals

Submission Deadline:Friday, February 19, 2025 at 11:59pm

The Wallace Stevens Society - International Conference: “Transnational Conversations, Partial Perspectives” (Singapore, June 2025)

How have operas, musical plays, and individual songs reflected historical narratives, events, and individuals?  We invite 250-word abstracts regarding works that dramatize, in words and music, a past that remains alive and compelling.

Submissions are welcome in an unlimited range of cultural contexts , media, and time periods (of history or composition), e.g. Philip Glass's Akhnaten, Shaina Taub's Suffs, etc.

Thie session will take place at the Modern Language Association convention in Toronto, January 9-12, 2026.  Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is an affialiated organization of the MLA.

Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/

Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari

Two-Day International Conclave (in Blended Mode)
                                 on

 “Transcultural Linguistic, Literary & Cultural Aspects of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS)” [15-16 February, 2025]

 Organized by Centre for Foreign Languages, Bankura University

Bridges and Borders: The Archive

April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

In the very first year of the new millennium, the world witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York City, on September 11. We all watched it numbly on television, as if it had been an action movie or an apocalyptic dystopia. This event has remained in the collective consciousness as the most tragic terrorist attack on American soil, with more than 3,000 deaths and a list of geopolitical consequences that have changed the world.

Call for Papers

The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:

 Trans/Pater 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

September  5-7, 2025

Keynote Speaker:  Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, London

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?

Call for Papers

Languages, Territories, and Contexts:

Linguistic-educational policies today

Catholic University ‘Our Lady of Good Counsel’, Tirana, 22-24 May 2025

Deadline for abstract submission: February 14th, 2025

Conference title, organization name: The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society, Istanbul Bilgi University.

Conference date and location: April 26th, 2025 at Santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall.

Contact email: literatureandcensorship2025@gmail.com

The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society