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The Role of the University in War - An Interdisciplinary Conference (Hull, UK and online) - 5-6 November 2025

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 8:10am
University of Hull and Mariupol State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 10, 2025

This interdisciplinary (hybrid) conference considers the role of universities in war past and present. Historically, the university experience in war is of loss, displacement, depleting student numbers, reallocation of staff to expert roles to support the war effort, students and staff engaged in active duty, and campus buildings re-purposed. Universities also become key for a country’s postwar reconstruction. However, not all universities have direct experience of conflict. This conference considers how universities operate in war zones and the role universities play in non-conflict zones to support the academy and the communities they serve in war and displacement.

The 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power” Oct. 24th & 25, 2025 (Virtual) Call For Panels and Presentations

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 8:09am
The Humanities Podcast Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The 5th Annual Humanities Podcasting
Network Symposium: “Podcasting & Power”
Oct. 24th & 25, 2025 (Virtual)
Call For Panels and Presentations

SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO THIS LINK: https://forms.gle/8rfmnbBmYDoNKVxeA

Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of. Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is ‘give us some truth.’”
— Joe Strummer

Fear as a Political Emotion: The Rise of New Violent Orders

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 8:09am
Maximiliano E Korstanje / University of Palermo, Argentina
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025

CALL FOR CHAPTERS:  Fear as a Political Emotion: The Rise of New Violent Orders (Nova Science Publishers).

 

Maximiliano E Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina

Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 8:01am
University of Maryland Global Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Cultural Constellations: A Journal of Literature and Art

deadline for submissions: 

September 30, 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Cultural Constellations / University of Maryland Global Campus Europe

contact email: 

CulturalConstellations-Europe@UMGC.edu

For Reference:

https://europe.umgc.edu/content/dam/umgc-europe/documents/upload/cultura...

Cultural Constellations:  A Journal of Literature and Art

The Limbs of Starfish: Mental Regeneration through Radical Creativity

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 7:59am
Natasha Tinsley/ Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Starfish are echinoderms with a unique ability called autotomy where they can regenerate lost limbs. There are times when these creatures will even sacrifice a limb to save themselves. However, whether through natural causes or detriment, we learn that loss can equal a new beginning. These new appendages are not always exact matches. Nevertheless, these misshaped, Frankensteined pieces, marred by experience, can represent a new foundation that is more powerful, vigorous, efficient, and even healthier.

Borders, Bridges and Belonging: Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

updated: 
Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 7:58am
Global Committee, Children's Literature Association (ChLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Call for Papers:

Global Committee Panel on

"Borders, Bridges and Belonging:

Neighborhoods in Global Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture"

Deadline: September 30, 2025

11:59 p.m. (Eastern US Standard Time)

Children's Literature Association Conference

May 28-30, 2026

Omni William Penn Hotel

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

India, Poverty, and Western Eyes

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 12:36pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

While ancient Europe regarded India as a land of material wealth and proverbial wisdom, it also saw it as a land of man-like monkeys, banyan trees, and enormous elephants. Ancient Europeans perceived Indians as wearing bright colors, eating rice and meat, and lacking wine-drinking finesse. Today, portrayals of India in prose fiction, cinema, social media, and historiography have shifted from polarized images of Europe and India to narratives depicting a “Dark” and a “Shining” India. Characters in these texts strive to be part of an economically thriving “shining” India, even as they face social, cultural, and political challenges daily.

2025: 09-15-25: CFP Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual) (9/15/2025; ICMS Kalamazoo/Online 5/14-16/2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:53am
Michael Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 

Magics, Marvels, Metamorphoses, and Monsters: Horrors of the Medieval Past, Present, and Future (Virtual)

 

Co-sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture, International Society for the Study of Medievalism

 

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University

 

CFP - NeMLA 2026: (Re)generating Foreign Language Studies Through Cultural Competence Between the U.S. and Italy

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:53am
University of Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026: (Re)generating Foreign Language Studies Through Cultural Competence Between the U.S. and Italy

The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.

 

Special Issue: (Re)articulating an Old Ideal: Self-Care and Self-Help in Contemporary Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:52am
Cultures in Transit. The Anglophone Students' Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Articles

 

Special Issue: (Re)articulating an Old Ideal: Self-Care and Self-Help in Contemporary Culture

 

Guest Editors: Alexandra Bacalu (University of Bucharest) & Dragoș Manea (University of Bucharest)

 

Call for Guest Editors: Summer 2026 Composition Studies Special Issue

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:52am
Composition Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 19, 2025

Composition Studies invites proposals from potential guest editors for an open-access, digital, special issue to be published in summer 2026! This is an open call, and we are especially interested in special issues that would benefit from the ease of circulation afforded by open-access, digital publication. 

 

Robert Creeley at 100, A Celebration of His Life and Poetry

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:51am
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 12, 2025

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to take place in Louisville, Kentucky, February 16-21. 2026 marks the Centenary of poet Robert Creeley’s birth, and the Charles Olson Society will welcome abstracts pertaining to any aspect of Creeley’s life and work. Creeley was a central poet in the development of Black Mountain Poetry, and along with his life-long friend and companion in verse, Charles Olson, Creeley greatly influenced the development of American poetics after World War II. As he said, “I write to realize the world as one has come to live in it, thus to give testament. I write to move in words, a human delight. I write when no other act is possible.”

Vitalism in Literature and Culture from the Twentieth Century to the Present

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:51am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This year’s conference theme invites participants to reflect on “regeneration in the sense of bringing forth… a new entity that is more powerful, vigorous, efficient, and healthier.” This selection of terms immediately evokes vitalism—a philosophy of regeneration centered on dynamism, productivity, energy, life force, creativity, and strength. Vitalism emerged in response to mechanistic and materialist accounts of life; though often dismissed by the end of the nineteenth century as a pseudo-science, vitalism has endured as a complex and influential philosophical framework from the twentieth century to the present. Authoritarian regimes in the early twentieth century appropriated vitalist ideas and imagery in support of fascism.

Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:51am
Pasados: Recovering Histories, Imagining Latinidad
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Pasados Special Issue: Against the Past/Contra Pasados

Co-edited by Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico) and Evelyn Soto (Rutgers University—New Brunswick)

Deadline: January 15, 2026

Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:44am
Department Cultures and Societies, University of Palermo
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Call for papers

Undisciplined Anthropologies: Practices, Trajectories, and Imaginations Beyond “Method”

Cultures and Societies Department, University of Palermo, Italy

Institut Français, Palermo, Italy

International Conference

30th, 31rst October 2025

Institut Français Palermo

Via Paolo Gili 4, 90138, Palermo

Deadline for abstracts: September 25th, 2025

Technical Communication Quarterly Special Edition

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:44am
Diane Martinez/Western Carolina University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Hello Tech Comm Colleagues,

We, the guest editors of a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, invite you to submit a proposal on the topic of "Responding to the Changing Landscape of the Technical Communication Workplace in the 21st Century." For convenience, the full text of the CFP is below. It is also attached. Please feel free to distribute widely. We are happy to take questions about the special issue. Our emails are included in the CFP. Proposals are due October 1, 2025. See the CFP for submission instructions.

All our best,

Laura Vernon and Diane Martinez

Call for Proposals: A Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly

Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:38am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Literary criticism is often treated as a secondary act, the intellectual afterimage of the work it addresses. This seminar proceeds from the opposite premise: criticism can be understood as a compositional art, a practice that gathers elements from different media, genres, and historical moments in order to propose a world in which the work might live. The critic does not merely interpret but constructs, weaving together forms, narratives and temporalities to re-situate a work within a newly configured cultural space, animated by the critical desire to imagine and construct more just and inhabitable worlds. 

Women’s Studies Non-Thematic

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:38am
Jamia Millia Islamia
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The forthcoming non-thematic issue proposes to engage in an interdisciplinary manner with the varied

ways in which women continue to face discrimination and marginalisation in the socio- economic, cultural

and political arena. Around the world, millions of women, irrespective of their age groups, social classes,

locations or cultures face a series of risk factors ranging from physical and psychological violence, sexual

abuse and coercion to human trafficking. Women’s vulnerability is little addressed in the developmental

policies of governments and the capitalist expansion of market economies. We invite papers that critically

Feminism and Literary Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:37am
Marmara University in coop with Maurer Press in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press

We invite contributions for the next volume of our series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume is dedicated to exploring feminist perspectives in literature and culture, providing a platform for work that highlights the diverse ways feminism continues to shape literary scholarship.

Ecocriticism

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:36am
Marmara University in coop with Maurer Press in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press

Postcolonial Feminism

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:17am
Marmara University in coop with Maurer Press in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press

Language, Linguistics, and Teaching

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:08am
Marmara University in coop with Maurer Press in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature**
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press

We invite contributions for the next volume of our series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume will explore current directions in language and linguistic studies, language pedagogy, and applied linguistics, with the goal of highlighting innovative approaches to teaching, research, and practice.

Postcolonialism

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:08am
Marmara University in coop with Maurer Press in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Book Series Title: Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature
Publisher: HJ Verlag Maurer – Maurer Press, Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.maurer.press

We are delighted to invite contributions for the upcoming third volume of our book series, Contemporary Literary Studies on Language and Literature. This volume turns its focus to postcolonial approaches in literary studies, bringing together scholarship that explores the cultural, political, and historical dimensions of literature shaped by colonial encounters and their legacies.

College English Association Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:03am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

JOIN CEA IN THE QUEEN CITY On May 20, 1775—a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence—the citizens of North Carolina declared their own independence from Great Britain in the Mecklenberg Declaration. Today, more than 250 years later, North Carolinians continue to celebrate “Meck Dec” and their history as “a free and independent people.” In the spirit of public proclamation and historic resolve, the College English Association announces its 55th annual conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, and our theme, DECLARATIONS.

 

Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

updated: 
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:03am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

At a time when any strides that may have been made towards reproductive rights have been thrown into serious question, motherhood—its lived reality, its spectre, and its implications for theory—remains a fraught and undertheorized field. As Adrienne Rich put it in 1976, “we know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than we do about the nature and meaning of motherhood”—and this statement continues to be true nearly fifty years later despite the proliferation of media, both fictional and nonfictional, that takes motherhood as its object. The very definition of “motherhood” continues to be contested even as its boundaries expand and encompass an increasing number of subject positions and relational modes.

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