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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AI AND LITERATURE

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 12:10pm
ONDA THANA MAHAVIDYALAYA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Department of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal, announces an upcoming international, interdisciplinary conference examining AI's impact on literature. 

The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 August 2025,  on the main campus, near the National Highway. 

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 7:34am
Bodoland University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

International Seminar

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus

16 & 17 October 2025

Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar

A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)

 

CFP Tiphys #1.Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

updated: 
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 5:18am
Tiphys. Uomini e culture nel Mediterraneo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CFP Tiphys #1, Dopo il palazzo: la nascita della polis

Editor: Massimo Cultraro (CNR-ISPC), Giancarlo Germanà Bozza (Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo)

Deadline per l’invio dei contributi: 30 giugno 2025

La complessa storia dell’Egeo tra la fine del II e gli inizi del I millennio a.C. è segnata dal passaggio da strutture socio-politiche centralizzate e gerarchiche, identificate nel modello del palazzo miceneo, a comunità sul territorio che si riorganizzano in centri abitati di nuova formazione.

REMINDER: DEADLINE EXTENDED: “A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 4:27pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

NEW Deadline: July 11, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

(3 Weeks Left) In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 3:36pm
Amir Gilmore
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In Living Color:

 Exploring the Complexities of Colorism in the Twenty-First Century

Under Contract with Bloomsbury Publishing

 

Edited by

Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University

Vikki Carpenter, Heritage University

 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair

CreArte Latino Arts & Humanities Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 2:43pm
CreArte Expo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Call For Proposals

The CreArte hybrid conference seeks submission of proposals for papers, panels (3-4 papers), roundtables, workshops, and performances. We invite proposals from artists, educators, academics, and public scholars who examine various forms of Latino/a/e/x artistic expression, including but not limited to film, literature, music, visual arts, and dance, and how these artistic expressions have impacted the direction of society, broadly. Our hybrid conference is held in association with the CreArte Expo Latino Cultural Festival, a weekend-long celebration where attendees immerse themselves in Latino/a/e/x culture through literature, film, music, dance, cosplay, dance, comics and much more.

Veiled Visions: The (Re)generation of Image in Literary, Literal, and Liminal Veils

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 2:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Veiling obscures, but also reveals. It holds symbolic and aesthetic power that spans centuries, from the medieval and Victorian periods to contemporary expressions in visual, fashion, and social media culture. Further, it frames visibility itself and shapes how identity is hidden, controlled, surveilled, or disclosed. To veil is not only to conceal, but to shape what others are allowed to see and what they are left to imagine. Veiling shrouds, but also frames; withholds, but also invites interpretation. These tensions give veiling its interpretive depth, sustaining its power to provoke, unsettle, and reframe. 

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 10:03am
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

DEADLINE APPROACHING: Brandeis Novel Symposium 2025: The Bostonians (1886)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 7:12am
Brandeis Novel Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The ninth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will
take place on Friday October 17, 2025, invites proposals for
papers on Henry James’s novel The Bostonians (1886). The
Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that
chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient
theoretical, historical, political, and narratological
questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2024 BNS
website and this archive for more information about the
BNS.)

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

updated: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - 3:14am
Lenka Filipova / Freie Universität Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

Updating Ecocriticism: Perspectives from Gen Z

Eds. Başak Ağın, Z. Gizem Yılmaz, and Lenka Filipova

VOLUME 18 of Katherine Mansfield Studies: Katherine Mansfield's Men

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 18 OF Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S MEN
Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2025
‘Everything must ring like elizabethan english and like those gentlemen I always seem to be
mentioning ‘the Poets’. There is a light upon them especially upon the elizabethans and our
‘special’ set – Keats, W.W. Coleridge Shelley De Quincey and Co. […] Those are the people
with whom I want to live – those are the men I feel are our brothers’. (Letter to John

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

 The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
Dr. Andrew Harrison
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
Kathleen Jones
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
Dr. Martin Griffiths
Author and Musician

Is a Better World Possible?- Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities A one-day hybrid interdisciplinary conference at the University of WarwickSaturday 29th November 2025Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Bernard, King’s College London

 

Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Angela Sweigart-Gallagher
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest

 

Edited by:

Angela Sweigart-Gallagher, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University (asweigart@stlawu.edu )

Victoria P. Lantz, Associate Professor of Theatre, Sam Houston State University (vicky.lantz@gmail.com)

  

We invite scholars to contribute to a forthcoming book, Abortion Performances: Staging and Protesting Reproductive Pasts, Presents, and Futures.

Edited Volume - Media in Transition:The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Alfonso Hegde, Sangita Shresthova, Henry Jenkins, William Uricchio, University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Media in Transition: The Stories We Tell, The Futures We Imagine 

Edited by: Sangita Shresthova and Alfonso Hegde

Call for Submissions

 

Is artificial intelligence inevitable? Will it usher in a new era of creativity? Will it actually completely automate away all human creativity? How much agency do we have over AI? Is this the death of the author? Is this the end of original creative expression as we know it?  

Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
European Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CFP: Post-9/11 Representation after 25 Years.

A special issue of the European Journal of American Culture 46.2 (Summer 2026):

Edited by:

Colin Halloran, Old Dominion University, chall032@odu.edu

Marc A. Ouellette, Old Dominion University, mouellet@odu.edu

International Bildungsroman/panel at PAMLA conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Martin Japtok
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Please submit an abstract to the panel session "International Bildungsroman" at this year's PAMLA conference , which takes takes place Nov. 20-23 in San Francisco.

In order to submit, use this link:

 

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19478

 

or go to www.pamla.org, use the Conference pulldown tab, go to 122nd Conference and follow the link for submissions there.

Description of panel theme below.

Email mjaptok@palomar.edu if you have any questions.

 

Early Modern Narrative Theory (RSA2026)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:59pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

This panel session for RSA 2026 in San Francisco invites proposals for papers on early modern literature and narrative theory, broadly conceived. Papers might consider narrative perspective, focalization, and free indirect discourse; formalist, structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to early modern narrative; and genre theory. How might early modern narrative invite us to question some of the assumptions of narrative theory, with its traditional emphasis on the novel? What kind of narrative theory (or theories) does early modern literature offer us?

Please email 200-word abstracts to Eve Houghton (eh565@cam.ac.uk) by July 31, 2025. 

Marginal Infrastructures

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
University of Pittsburgh
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 

Date: 19-20 September 2025

Keynote Speaker: Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason University

Mode: In Person

Chapters on Gullah Geechee Narrative and Song in American Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Feroza Jussawalla, Emeritas Professor, University of New Mexico
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Seeking original book chapters for a collection of essays on the influence of Gullah Geechee narratives and songs in contemporary American literature and culture, recognizing and cataloguing the long-overlooked contributions of the of the Sea Island people of the southeast coast of the United States. Interdisciplinary contributions encouraged.

 

Chapter length: approximately 6,000 words

 

Submit a proposal of 300-400 words via email by July 10th, 2025.

 

Feroza Jussawalla

fjussawa@unm.edu

 

Gerard Lavin

jerrylavin@hotmail.com

Jewish Film and New Media Deserving New/Renewed Consideration

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:58pm
Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The international journal Jewish Film and New Media is currently seeking article-length manuscripts on international cinema, television, or other new media (e.g. YouTube videos, photographs, graphic novels) about or made by Jews. Of particular interest is consideration of texts deserving new or renewed consideration.

Submissions should be 8,000-10,0000 words in length following Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Notes should appear at the end of the essay, in the same font size as the text, and double spaced.

Deadline for consideration in upcoming issues is September 1, 2025.

Afro-Gothic in Latin America and the Caribbean: (Re)Generating Horror from the Periphery

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
NeMLA Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

African American Gothic and Horror have begun to receive more focused scholarly attention in the last decade or so, and interest has only increased with the release of films such as Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Ryan Coogler’s recent box-office hit Sinners (2025). Meanwhile, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Gothic forms have yet to receive much critical attention or attain cross-cultural success, a gap that is arguably due to prolonged histories of erasure and particular manifestations of anti-Blackness in these regions. This session aims to begin teasing out a framework of analysis for the sub-field of Afro-Latin American Gothic.

Archetypes & Myths: ERAH Graduate Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Date: October 17-19, 2025

Location: SMU Main Campus, Dallas, TX

Theme: Archetypes & Myths

 

Submission Deadline: August 29, 2025

Keynote(s): TBD

 

Graduate students of Southern Methodist University’s Departments of English, Anthropology, and History, in collaboration with the Moody School of Advanced Studies, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, and the department of English, have collaborated to hold the second annual Engaging Research Across the Humanities (ERAH) Conference at SMU from October 17th-October 19, 2025. 

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/07/synchronicity-and-intuition/

 

July 23-24, 2025

Online, Via Zoom

 

Proposal deadline: July 1, 2025

 

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

 

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2026. To be considered for the competition, please submit an original article on any topic, period, theme, author, film or other media within the (broadly defined) field of science fiction and its academic study. Approximate length should be 6000-8000 words. All submitted articles should comply with the guidelines to contributors as set out on the journal pages of the SF Foundation website.

Children's Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 1:57pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Calling all children's literature scholars! The Children's Literature panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference is accepting papers until June 30th or when the panel is filled. PAMLA will meet November 20th-23rd in San Francisco. To submit a paper visit the online PAMLA portal and create an account: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

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