Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)

This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.

Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.

Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience

Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)

An International Conference

On

Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.

Organized by

The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru

Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025

“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”

Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)

Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.

MSA Boston 2025: Modernist Aerial Infrastructure

The Midwest MLA conference will take place this November 14-16 at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, WI.

Literary Influences and Relationships in 19th-Century British Literature

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025. 

Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)

Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi

Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association of Chinese Studies (AACS)

67nd Annual Conference, hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York on October 24-26, 2025. According to the AACS conference description: the theme of the conference is “Charting New Paradigms: China and the Chinese Diaspora in a Changing World Order” in multiple aspects of culture, diplomacy, economy, education, health, history, literature, politics, and society.

Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture

                                                       Calls for Papers for the 2026 MLA Convention

                                                                       January 8-11, Toronto

                                                                   The Doris Lessing Society

1       Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change

The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025

Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives 

Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.

2025 MMLA theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"

Gender Studies

Panel Title “Hope for Voice and Gender” – Virtual Panel

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential,

flooding, eroding, quiet, steady, filling the earth, collecting in hidden springs.

When it rains, when we love, new life grows.

—Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (232)

Science and Fiction Panel: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

Chaired by Nesrine Affara (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- Biology) and Jeffrey Squires (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- English)

Contact Email: squires@cmu.edu

CFP deadline 18 April 2025 

University of Siedlce

Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies

and

University of the Balearic Islands

Faculty of Philosophy and Art

would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the

10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues

in Language and Literature