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Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Modern Languages Association Society of Southern Studies Affiliated Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

Everywhere Below Canada: The Black South Outside the South

 

SSSL-Affiliated Session

MLA 2026, Toronto, Canada

January 8-11

 

Exiled Literatures: Women, Displacements, and Archives in the Global Hispanic World

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
MLA 2026 (Toronto Jan. 8-11 2026) Feministas Unidas-Guaranteed Session
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Abstract: Feministas Unidas invites interdisciplinary contributions for its non-guaranteed session in online format for MLA 2026 (Toronto, January 8-11, 2026). Proposals can be submitted even if you are not a member of Feministas Unidas. Now, if accepted, they must register for the periods 2025 and 2026. This call for contributions seeks proposals that examine literatures written by women in the transatlantic orbit, from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing on experiences of exile, displacement, and the difficulties faced by both the women and their texts in entering archives.

Sexual Violence and Power: Sexual Assault As a Metaphor for Political Culture.

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
MLA 2026 (Toronto Jan. 8-11 2026) Feministas Unidas-Non-Guaranteed Session
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

MLA 2026  (Toronto Jan. 8-11 2026)

Feministas Unidas-Non-Guaranteed Session

 

Title: Sexual Violence and Power: Sexual Assault As a Metaphor for Political Culture.

 

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

... ACROSS & BEYOND THE EARLY GLOBAL WORLD

April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person]

CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA

Organized by Basil Arnould Price (John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA)

and Nancy Alicia Martínez (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)

ASAP-16 (2025) -- Rethinking Justice “Where Life is Precious…”

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:37pm
Jennie Snow
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

In recounting how she introduces prison abolition work to skeptics, Ruth Wilson Gilmore shares the principle, “where life is precious, life is precious.” This life-affirming axiom grounds a praxis that is about changing everything, breaking with oppressive power systems and making worlds that reduce harm by investing in care. At the same time, the ongoing climate crisis reinforces a horizon of extinction that reorients the relationships between more-than-human and human lives, demanding more radical conceptions of our collective world(s). A. Naomi Paik, for instance, develops the idea of “abolitionist sanctuary” out of the movement for immigrant rights.

Ecocritical perspectives on literature and other media

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Istanbul University & Marmara University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This call for papers seeks contributions examining the relationship between narratives and ecological issues, focusing on the ways storytelling addresses ecological challenges. Narratives – whether literary, cinematic, or multimodal – have the potential to critique environmental exploitation, envision sustainable futures, and explore human and non-human interconnections. The intersection of ecocriticism and storytelling offers fertile ground for discussions about the role of culture in shaping ecological consciousness and practices.

[HCIS_CFP] Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (special issues - Quantum Applications)

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:36pm
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

HCIS Journal (2025 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

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Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

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Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

 

English version below

 

La colección Terror. Estudios críticos, dirigida por Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns y localizada en la Universidad de Cádiz (España)busca manuscrito (monografia o colección editada) para año 2026/2027. Las propuestas y los manuscritos deben ser en español. Estamos interesados en un estudio académico (no meramente divulgativo) sobre los films de terror de Jacinto Molina (más conocido como Paul Naschy) realizados en España durante la década de oro del “Fantaterror” (1967-1976). Interesadas/os por favor mandar propuesta junto con CV completo al  email de la colección: coleccion.terror@uca.es hasta el 30 de marzo 2025.

 

MLA 2026 Convention Panel Session - American Narratives of Death, Grief, and Health Matters

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:35pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

The 2026 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention will be held from January 8 to January 11 in Toronto. The past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, but there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel session is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond. It also draws attention to health humanities. Some questions the panel addresses include: what are some ways literary and cultural texts broaden our understanding of health, mortality, grief, and wellness or living life well?

My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:30pm
Dr Sam Hirst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’

 

Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.

Death and Health in Literary & Cultural Studies - Conference Panel

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 12:29pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The SAMLA conference is taking place in Atlanta, GA on Thursday, November, 6 – Saturday, November, 8, 2025 at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center. The proposed panel dovetails directly with this year’s conference theme “Knowledge.” Even as the past few years have highlighted death and the value of health, there still remains a lack of knowledge and studies concerning the reality of these experiences for some people, especially marginalized groups. This panel is open to all perspectives and seeks to explore death, health, and/or their intersections in the humanities and beyond.

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

updated: 
Sunday, February 9, 2025 - 9:24am
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

 

Call for Book Proposals: Endangered Language Studies Collection

Are you interested in writing a book on an endangered language? Lived Places Publishing invites proposals for its Endangered Language Studies Collection, a series designed to provide engaging and accessible supplementary materials for academic programs.

Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 11:52am
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

Performing Religion in Early Modern England

updated: 
Saturday, February 8, 2025 - 5:31am
University of California Santa Barbara Early Modern Center
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

“Whatever his personal beliefs, Shakespeare is in the most important sense of the word a religious writer: not a proponent of any particular religion, but a writer who is aware, and makes his spectators aware, of the mystery of things.”

 

-Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: For All Time 

 

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture (April 11–13, 2025, Hybrid)

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:08pm
English Graduate Students' Society (Université de Montréal)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 17, 2025

EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture

Université de Montréal

April 11–13, 2025

 

The English Graduate Students’ Society (soon to become the English and Bidisciplinary Students’ Society) at l’Université de Montréal currently solicits proposals for paper presentations at its 2025 annual conference. The conference theme, “R/evolution,” invites us to considers the frictions and affinities between evolution and revolution, as we trace radical change and gradual transformation in literature and culture.

 

10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History - 2025

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 12:05pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its ongoing photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

Comedy: Darkness and Light

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
International Society for Philosophy in Film
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) Fourth Annual Symposium

Call for Abstracts August 28-30, 2025 London, England

https://www.philosophyliterature.com/ispif

Theme: Comedy: Darkness and Light

Abstract Deadline April 15, 2025

Completed papers due July 30, 2025 

CFP: Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
Feminist Formations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We are inviting submissions for a special issue of *Feminist Formations* onthe topic of "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University."

Abstracts are due March 31, 2025.

**DEADLINE EXTENDED**University of Southern Mississippi CFP - Mississippi Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:02am
University of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from Mississippi and Gulf States graduate students for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

The Evolving Role of AI in Language and Literature Pedagogy

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Modern Language Association 2026 Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This virtual roundtable explores AI's transformative impact on teaching language and literature. We welcome proposals that provide concrete examples or innovative methodologies for integrating AI, contributing to a dynamic and practical pedagogical toolkit. Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025 to svetatyutina@yahoo.com.

Worlds Beyond: 48th Annual Williamson Lectureship

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Theme: Worlds Beyond

The Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) invites scholars, academics, and researchers to submit abstracts for academic papers and/or proposals for panel presentations focused on the intersection of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and hybrid genres) with the evolving notion of the (post)human. The theme for this year's Lectureship is "Worlds Beyond” with distinguished guest of honor Darcie Little Badger, the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Newberry Honor Award winning author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth. The event will also feature several other speculative fiction authors.  

English Literature since 1900

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

Pedagogies of Falling Apart: A Roundtable Discussion

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 8:10am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil. 

 

Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:47am
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in August 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

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