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From Silos to Collaborative Teaching and Research

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:23am
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.

Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Annual Conference Call for Proposals

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:22am
Mid Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

2025 Annual Conference

November 6-8, 2025

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse

Philadelphia, PA

Call for proposals:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

Navigating Trauma Through Storytelling and Narrative Medicine

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:22am
Laura Lazzari, The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities (Switzerland) and Giulia Po DeLisle UMass Lowell
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This session is organized withing the 2025 NeMLA Annual Conference in Pittsburg. Virtual participation is accepted. The panel investigates literature and the Medical Humanities, focusing on the potential of storytelling and narrative medicine to navigate trauma and improve empathy and communication between patients and health care providers. We seek contributions from scholars pertaining to various disciplines who works at the intersection of literature and medicine. Papers will explore how literature and life writing can successfully address traumatic events and improve medical practice.

Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:21am
Ashutosh Kumar Pand & Mohammad Kamaran Siddiqi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India

We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited volume titled Enacting Curtailment: Practices of Censorship in Colonial India. This interdisciplinary volume will explore themes of censorship, resistance in the literature, art, performance, film, sound, history, and related fields within the humanities and social sciences.

NeMLA CfP: “Vroom Vroom Let’s Drive” – Toxic Masculinity on the Road

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome

“Men will literally drive 200km/h through a neon-drenched cityscape instead of going to therapy.”

NeMLA CfP: Not Gay as in Happy, but Queer as in Fuck You: Horror and Cinematic Disobedience

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Hybrid format: in-person and virtual presentations welcome

This panel explores the volatile and seductive intersections of queerness, horror, and psychosexual cinema. Taking inspiration from the defiant slogan “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you,” we frame queerness not as static identity, but as a generative force of disruption, resistance, and cinematic disobedience.

NEMLA Conference 2026 Seminar- (Re)Imagining Trans: Mappings, Crossings, and Tracings

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Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:19am
Juie Gune / Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This seminar seeks to reimagine Trans Studies through the lens of a prefixial turn, where trans signifies a movement across, as well as a digression away from an unchosen starting point. Presenters are urged to negotiate the limits such given points of departure pose to our horizons of thought and emotion.

Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:19am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

We invite submissions for a paper panel themed “Non-Western Aesthetics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Representation” – an exploration of aesthetics from diverse cultural perspectives, non-Western rhetorical traditions, and globalized literary theory. Our aim is to examine non-Western, non-hegemonic discourses from non-White nations that incorporate indigenous critical approaches and local theories within artistic and literary practices. We are particularly interested in South and Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies.

Broad areas of exploration may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following literary and cultural theoretical perspectives:

CFP: “Entangled Histories, Emerging Futures: South Asia in a Multipolar World“

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:18am
Journal of South Asian Exchanges A Multidisciplinary Journal of South Asian Research (ISSN: 3048-8877)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Journal of South Asian Exchanges (ISSN: 3048-8877) invites submissions for its upcoming special issue dedicated to the rich, layered, and dynamic terrain of South Asian Studies. This issue seeks to cultivate cross-disciplinary conversations that explore both the historical depth and contemporary complexities of South Asia, from its ancient entanglements to its evolving place in the 21st-century global order. We are especially interested in papers that foreground interdisciplinary approaches and prioritize marginalized perspectives—scholarship that moves beyond binaries and embraces the messy, hybrid realities of the region.

Abstracts for NeMLA 2026 Panel - Creative and Forensic Accounting: Cultural and Corporate Continuity Beyond Weimar

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for paper proposals

In periods of economic and cultural crisis, cui bono? Who benefits? How are accounts kept, and gains accounted for? Who is accountable and who is not? What forms does the balance sheet take? What is its narrative and who gets to construct it? How is creative accounting investigated?

The early to mid-twentieth century was a period of global economic crisis, revolution, and war that facilitated a shift of global economic and political hegemony from the British empire to the American. The Weimar Republic’s afterlife as a historical nexus of crisis lends itself especially well to issues of accountability and accounting.

Black Antiquity, Emplotment, and the Vindicating Self

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:17am
Jorge Serrano/UD
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

This call for papers invites contributors to submit papers for publication in a university press. The anthology will gather analyses focusing on writers, artists, and others who have engaged with or represented aspects of a Black past. We are seeking works in literature, film, music, art, or any other relevant fields that incorporate elements of the Black past in a broad sense.

Intersectional Feminisms and Regenerative Justice

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:16am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores how intersectional feminist frameworks reimagine justice as a regenerative process- one that not only repairs harm but actively cultivates equitable futures. Centering marginalized voices (BIPOC, disabled, and Global South perspectives), we interrogate literary, activist, and pedagogical interventions that challenge systemic oppression while envisioning liberation. Papers might analyze speculative fiction’s role in feminist worldbuilding, decolonial pedagogies that restore Indigenous knowledge, or grassroots movements modeling restorative alternatives to carceral systems.

Regenerating Resistance: Comparative Modalities of Marginal Voices Across Borders

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:16am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This roundtable explores how literature and allied forms of cultural expression regenerate acts of resistance across generations and geopolitical contexts. Centering on comparative studies of marginalized communities including Dalit, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic voices, this session interrogates how storytelling practices evolve to challenge hegemonic narratives and recover erased or silenced histories. Participants are invited to reflect on how forms such as autofiction, digital narratives, performance art, eco-poetics, or oral testimony function as regenerative tools that produce continuity between past traumas and present struggles.

CFP - PAMLA 2025 (San Francisco): Classical Hollywood

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:15am
David John Boyd / University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Session Title: Classical Hollywood 
Organiser: David John Boyd, Stirling Maxwell Centre, University of Glasgow
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Conference Dates: November 20–23, 2025
Location: InterContinental San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Revisiting Huxley: Assessing the Foresight of His Views on World Change

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:15am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.

NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.

Annual Northeast Modern Language Association

57th  Annual Convention

March 5-8, 2026  in Pittsburgh, PA

at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.

            Aldous Huxley, who wrote in the 1930s, is famously remembered for his novels Brave New World and Island as well as for the essays he wrote for William Randolph Hearst. Jerome Meckler’s “Aldous Huxley: Dystopian Essayist of the 1930s.” reviews some of Huxley’s writing.

Revisiting Closet Poets

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 9:15am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Submit proposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21664

You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.

NOTE: This session is hybrid. It will be seated and accessible on Zoom. Please indicate which you prefer when you submit your proposals. Thank you.

Annual Northeast Modern Language Association

57th  Annual Convention

March 5-8, 2026  in Pittsburgh, PA

at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown.

Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)

updated: 
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - 4:55am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer books remain comparatively understudied. Prayer could take on a multitude of forms and occur in a range of spaces, from public to secluded and private; from monastic, liturgical prayer to short, indulgenced invocations and meditative prayers that evoked a rich scala of emotions and mental images.  

Hate and NonHuman Listening

updated: 
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 3:22pm
Kathryn Huether
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Deadline Extended! Call for Proposals
Hate and NonHuman Listening
A Guest Series for Sounding Out! guest edited by Kathryn Huether
Submission Deadline: July 9, 2025, by 11:59pm PDT

Please send a proposed title and 300–350 word abstract to: kathryn.huether@gmail.com
Final pieces should be ~1200 words. Four will be selected for publication.

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