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Call for Papers -- The Sixteenth Century Society: A Society for Early Modern Studies
Portland, Oregon, October 30 - November 1, 2025
CFP:
Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating and rich transformations resulting from these crisscrossings.
The Circus Historical Society will hold its 2025 Convention in Las Vegas Nevada from October 22 to October 25. More information about Convention is available here: https://circushistory.org/next-convention/ (Registration opens soon!)
We invite proposals for presentations at the convention on any subject related to circus history:
This conference aims to bring together Postgraduate students and Research Scholars to critically engage with the theme of “Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation.” Culture has always been the force to determine the course of human history, which has been sempiternally constituted by multitudinous and multidirectional fluxes of cultural exchanges, overlaps, and influences of various degrees. The aforementioned dynamics had not only been operative at collective levels but also at individual ones, ceaselessly permeating and turning us into its impacts and mouldings.
Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026
All topics related to the long 18th century are welcome. We especially encourage papers related to this year's theme: reading and writing; rural sports; golf, spas, and resorts; shopping; competitions; gambling; drinking; music; theatre, and all other eighteenth-century pastimes. Those speaking on any eighteenth-century topic will be providing pleasure, hence in keeping with the theme.
CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel
MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI
The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.
SAMLA 97: CFP for “The ‘Unfamiliar and Unnecessary’ in College Writing Instruction”
November, 6–8, 2025
Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association invites proposals dealing with any aspect of the general theme for the 2025 conference: “Knowledge.” Please find a general description of this theme here: https://southatlanticmla.org/conference-theme-and-cfp/.
Call for Papers:
Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:
Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance
Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan
Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus:
Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives
Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship
Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany
4th – 6th of June, 2025
When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?
Recent reports about Neil Gaiman’s alleged decades of sexual abuse have led to renewed discussions about how to approach popular and award-winning works by authors and illustrators who draw rebuke in their personal lives. Censorship over a range of complaints is increasing globally. Social media callouts over content have resulted in withdrawn publications, canceled book contracts, and altered reputations of authors, illustrators, and publishers.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education
Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)
Important Deadlines
Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words) : April 12, 2025
Full Chapter Submission : June 15, 2025
Proposals are invited for a session at MLA 2026 in Toronto (session sponsor, The Conference on Christianity and Literature). The contemporary political and cultural scene in the United States is fraught with religion. Religion is fraught with politics, whether thinking about the ascendancy of the forms of Christian Nationalism in the discourses and halls of power, the continued political relevance and concern of the Black Church, the rhetorical and theological interventions of leaders like Bishop Marianne Budde (ECUSA), Pope Francis, or Billy and Franklin Graham, or the difficult political and cultural engagements across national divides in the clashing of cultures influenced by versions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.
The 2026 MLA Convention will take place in Toronto from January 8 to 11 2026. I am organizing this panel on any aspect of racial passing. This panel seeks abstracts that explore racial passing in literature & film. Topics can explore any aspect of racial passing in literature and/or film from any time period. Submit a 300-word abstract and brief bio by March 25 for full consideration.
Patterson Prize 2025 (English submission)
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 36, no. 2
The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre.
Call for Submissions: "Hello Godot" – A One-Minute Existential Play Anthology
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Email: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com
Last date of submission: May 5, 2025
Modernist literature emerges at the intersection of industrialization and the rapid expansion of fossil fuels—railways, power grids, and oil pipelines—that define the modern city while also exposing its vulnerabilities. This panel explores how modernist works engage with the materiality and aesthetics of infrastructure to critique the systems that sustain modern life and the forms in which modern life is communicated.
Editors:
Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl
Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu
Important Dates:
Overview:
This session invites abstracts for papers that engage meaningfully with Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy. This session seeks to bring together a wide variety of approaches to and thematic interests in the novel. Papers might explore questions as diverse as possession/haunting, coloniality, race, the archive, gender, or theories of reading.
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio through the Google form below:
International T. S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting
Registration for the Society’s 2025 meeting is now open! We invite you to join us at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, on July 2–5 for the 46th annual gathering of the International T. S. Eliot Society.
Title: Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media: Wired for Love
Edited by: Amanda Furiasse, Nova Southeastern University
We invite contributions for a special issue titled Cutting Across Borders: Contemporary Gibraltarian Writing, which seeks to explore the evolving literary landscape of Gibraltar.
Call for Papers
“Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive”
British Library Study Day, 7th November 2025
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Patrick Leary (Historian of the Victorian Press) and Julia Thomas (Cardiff University)
We are seeking submissions for a special issue (titled: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance) for the peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
As disability scholar Tobin Siebers states, “Disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel.” (1)
This session seeks 250-word abstracts of critical and creative pieces on women’s war narratives from postcolonial experiences, like – partition, apartheid, independence, internal colonization, gendered, racialized or sectarian violence.
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Visions of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal
The editors invite research articles examining Octavia Butler’s seminal and prophetic novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents for a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal. In addition, the editors are accepting short creative works inspired by Butler’s Parable series.
Call for Papers
Sport and Popular Culture Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2025 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the need for us as scholars to re-assess our history and culture through an ecological lens also steadily increases. Where is seventeenth-century ecocriticism now, and where is it going?
Visual Theology III Beauty and Faith
Part One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
Roger Scruton
Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, 24-26 October 2025, and the second part in the UK, summer 2026. (Details forthcoming.)