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The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Power in Urbanscapes: Rethinking Spatiality and Sociality

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:47am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The second Issue of Volume 7 of LLIDS examines how structures of power constitute and shape urban spaces. It proposes to explore their influence in determining social values wherein varied social groups—marked by religion, class, race, gender, etc.—negotiate the power dynamics that constitute life in urban spaces. The modern, bustling city carries within itself a continuous sense of becoming. The urban dwellers, inhabiting segregated parts of the city, shape the lived experience of these spaces through their socio-cultural interactions and relationships.

Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:47am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable. 

Embodied Spaces: Digital Reconfigurations of Experience

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 8:46am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Virtual interventions have become permanently embedded in our spaces, and play a major role not only in how a space is constituted but also in how our bodies exist in, encounter, and co-constitute space. Physical space and virtual networks are inextricably intertwined today, such that a space is never purely physical.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 July 2025*

updated: 
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 6:02am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the sixth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, and Gale Cengage.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Teaching Social Justice in the World Literature Classroom: An edited collection on the theory and practice of teaching world literary texts with a focus on social justice

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:38pm
Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

Editors: 

Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl 

Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu

Important Dates:

  • Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 20th, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for the full articles and case studies: January 10th, 2026

Overview:

Marianne Moore Generations Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 5:06pm
Stanford Humanities Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Marianne Moore Generations Conference
October 23 and 24, 2025

Organizing Committee: Jon Tadmor (Stanford), Celine Shanosky (Harvard)
Speakers: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston), Virginia Jackson (UCI), Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo SUNY) 
Location: Stanford Humanities Center

The Marianne Moore Generations Conference is an invitation to join in consideration of one poet in the broadest sense, and with a spirit of experiment. How does Moore contribute, or not contribute, to a variety of fields and approaches within literary studies? How might this poet be carried forward? 

John le Carré

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 4:09pm
Adam Parkes / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge."  Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.  

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré.  Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television.  Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.

M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 9:57am
George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

CFP: M-C-M: Marx-Commodity-Modernism
Modernism/modernity Print+ Cluster

Editors: George Kovalenko (New York University) & Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University)

Abstracts due: 31 August 2025
Full papers due: 28 February 2026

We seek proposals for original essays that analyze the relationship between modernist artistic forms and the commodity form for a proposed peer-reviewed cluster on Modernism/modernity's Print+ platform. 

PAMLA 2025 Panel (standing session): Gothic II

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 7:34pm
Melanie A. Marotta, College of William & Mary / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

WILLIAM JAMES PRIZE: CALL FOR PAPERS

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:33pm
William James Studies / William James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR 2025 YOUNG SCHOLAR PRIZE

The William James Society (WJS), in conjunction with William James Studies, would like to announce that it will be offering its annual Young Scholar Prize to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought and work of William James.

The prize will include: (1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in March 2025, (2) $750 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) publishing the paper in William James Studies.

WILLIAM JAMES STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:33pm
William James Studies / William James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call For PapersThe William James Society and its peer-reviewed journal William James Studies invite article submissions from scholars with diverse interests and approaches to the life and work of William James. We are particularly interested in articles that reflect William James’s work (psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, etc.) as it intersects with modern concerns and interpretive contexts. The William James Society is a multidisciplinary professional society that supports the study of, and communication about, the life and work of James and his ongoing influence in the many fields to which he contributed. William James Studies can be found on several subscription databases, including the Modern Language Association.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: La (r)évolution sera queer: Queer Resistance in the French and Francophone World

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:31pm
Olivier Le Blond
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Dear colleagues,

Following the roundtable La (r)évolution sera queer: Queer Resistance in the French and Francophone World which took place at NeMLA in March 2025, we decided to put together an edited collection of essays addressing the diverse, multifaceted, and malleable concept of queerness and its revolutionary and revolutionizing aspects. We're looking for scholars interested in exploring the queer as a “floating signifier”  (Bernini, Lorenzo. Queer Theories: an Introduction : From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020) and “queering” as an action, an exploration, and a process. 

The Coppolas and American Zoetrope (PAMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Francis Ford Coppola’s long and distinguished career, from Dementia 13 in 1963 to Megalopolis and his Kennedy Center Honors and American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement award in 2024-25, we celebrate not only in its own right, but in its broader cinematic context as well. On the one hand, we have his filmmaking family and their cinematic endeavors, including those of his daughter Sofia, son Roman, father Carmine, wife Eleanor, sister Talia Shire, and nephews Jason Schwartzman and Nicolas Cage. On the other hand, we have the Coppola studio, American Zoetrope, from its 1969 establishment to the present, and its extended roster of domestic and foreign filmmakers and films.

Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis” at Fifty (PAMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.

All disciplines and approaches welcome.

Don DeLillo’s White Noise at Forty (co-sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society) (PAMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

History and Popular Uses of the Past – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:27pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The History and Popular Uses of the Past Area invites submissions for the Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.

 

This area welcomes proposals that explore the interconnection between history and popular culture. Proposals that examine how history is used and appropriated in popular culture are of particular interest. Some suggested topics for this area may include:

C19 2026: Talking About Slavery

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:26pm
Geoffrey Kirsch
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Talking About Slavery: Abolitionism, Censorship, and Free Speech

The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference

March 12-14, 2026, Cincinnati, OH

 

 

Courtesans, Consorts and Outcasts

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:22pm
Suparna Sarkar & Abhishek Chowdhury
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Book Chapters
Courtesans, Consorts, and Outcasts
Prostitutes in patriarchal society serve as mirrors to societal norms, embodying contradictions
of desire, power, marginalization, and agency. While often reduced to stereotypes (seductress,
victim, or social menace), their portrayals reveal deeper truths about gender, class, and
cultural values. This volume seeks to explore the multifaceted representations of prostitutes
across literary traditions—from ancient Sanskrit ganikas and Greek hetaerae to Victorian
"fallen women" and postmodern sex workers—to interrogate how these figures challenge,
reinforce, or transcend societal boundaries. This project fills a critical gap in scholarship by

Literary Sidekicks: For Critical Insights volume under contract

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 2:22pm
Laura Nicosia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

We seek submissions for a Critical Insights volume, under contract with Salem Press, exploring the evolving role of sidekicks across literary and popular culture. From Sancho Panza and Don Quixote to Robin and Batman; Queequeg and Ishmael to Patrick and SpongeBob; John Watson and Sherlock Holmes to Ethel and Lucy; Jim and Huck to Goose and Maverick—sidekicks have often served as more than mere comic relief or supporting characters. They shape plot, provide emotional resonance, sharpen protagonists’ identities, and offer subversive alternatives to mainstream narratives. Some of the sidekicks far outshine their counterparts.

Call for Book Chapters (Peter Lang series)

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 5:12am
Bidisha Pal and Biraj Biswas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Book Chapters

(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)

Call for Chapters for the anthology Performing Dalits: Theatre of the  Marginalized Communities of Bengal

 

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

updated: 
Monday, June 2, 2025 - 12:14am
Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Comparative Woman Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Woman is an online journal affiliated with LSU’s Department of Comparative Literature that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic essays.Comparative Woman Journal is inviting papers for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025) on Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement.

THEME

Aesthetic Education: From Sensibility to Critical Engagement

SUB-THEMES (including but not limited to):

Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 7:23pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

 

 

Beyond the Comic Strip: Exploring Graphic Narratives, Creative Inquiry, and Arts-Based Research

A Transdisciplinary Conference

Online, June 24-26, 2025
Proposal deadline: June 2, 2025

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

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/beyond-the-comic-strip-2025/ 

 

Call for Papers:

CFP: “Provocations” Essays for American Gothic Studies

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 7:21pm
American Gothic Studies/Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

UPDATED: SEEKING ESSAYS ON SPECIFIC TOPICS, SEE DESCRIPTION AND LIST BELOW

CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies

American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject. Please note that they are not traditional essays.

At this time, we are interested in essays that revisit, interrogate, and update older concepts and terms. Some examples might include (but are not limited to) the following:

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 6:56am
Editors - Marko Lukic and Irena Jurkovic/University of Zadar
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Call for Papers

Haunted Cities: Spaces, Spectres, and Urban Hauntologies

Edited Collection

Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series Exploring Transgender Themes

updated: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 3:06am
Bloomsbury Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The response to our CFP for Indian Trans Cinema has been so strong that we have expanded it into The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

We seek a nationally diverse group of contributors from countries worldwide.

We especially welcome additional chapters on the following 16 themes, for which we already have over 40 confirmed chapters:

Theme 1. Historical Cinema

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