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amily Resemblances: Hawthorne’s Extended Bloodlines”
MLA, Guaranteed Panel
MLA Conference, Toronto, 8-11 January 2026
Call For Book Chapters
Don’t Get Lost in Their Sauce:
Navigating Academic Identity, the Creative Self, and Reductive Practices
Edited by
Amir A. Gilmore, Washington State University
Adrianne Mitchell, Washington State University
“See, when I had no money, I still had sauce. See if you don’t got no sauce, then ya lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.” –Gucci Mane (2013)
The Fifth Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Student Victorian Association (UGSVA) 2025 conference:Victorian Façades, Facets, and Fantasies. A Zoom Conference.
Conference on 5/1/25 and Abstracts due 4/11/25
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Organizer and contact email:
The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:
1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age
With the support of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission, the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) announces a call for contributions to an edited volume on Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence. Organized by the Chair’s Translating Cultures Lab (TCL), this edited volume will reconceptualize, redefine, and expand the current conversations on translating cultures in the context of contemporary technological developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Gaskell Journal
Joan Leach Memorial
Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026
The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.
Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024
In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras
Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation
27-29 October 2025 IIT Madras
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Website: https://qutubminarreview.wordpress.com/about/
Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025
Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:
General guidelines:
InterArtes, n. 7, 2025
Editors-in-Chief: Laura Brignoli, Silvia Zangrandi
Department of Humanities
Università IULM - Milan
Faust, a Myth of Modernity
Myth is a living entity that develops and grows by embracing interpretations, suggestions, and reinterpretations, in what Hans Blumenberg calls a true epigenesis. The multiple forms of narrative, typical of modernity, feed on myth and continuously regenerate it, rewriting it from various perspectives—religious, social, aesthetic, political, or pop—according to the times, up to the post-modern.
Dear Scholars and Academicians,
We are pleased to announce a call for articles for a forthcoming book focusing on Indian Knowledge System (IKS), which will explore the depth and diversity of India’s ancient wisdom, traditions, and knowledge frameworks. The book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional and contemporary relevance of the Indian Knowledge System, highlighting its interdisciplinary applications and global significance.
The book will be published by a renowned publishing house and will have a ISBN, ensuring wide visibility and dissemination of your work among global academia and researchers.
Suggested Themes
Greetings from the Political Science Department of Rkm Narendrapur! VoxPopuli is back and this time it is better than ever, with newer and more events. This is the official information for the 'Analysis and Augmentation' event (Paper Presentation). Students, Research Scholars and faculty members all over are encouraged to put forward their valuable research and analysis, in order to present it before all of us on the 11th of April. Your contributions matter to us and we hope to publish a few, in order to broadcast your efforts before the world. The above date is regarding the submission of abstracts, after which we would publish a confirmation mail. The abstract is to be of 300 words, with keywords and a short bionote in the third person.
I'm looking to build a panel for OAH (Organization of American Historians ) in 2026. It will take place in Philadelphia and I'd love to create a Philly-centric panel. More broadly, decolonization focusing perhaps on city spaces, art, monuments, ecologies, and histories.
My abstract is below. Email me ASAP if your ideas feel simpatico.
Abstracts due via email by MARCH 17th, 2025
MMLA 2025 Milwaukee, WI
Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies permanent section
Deadline for submission: March 31st
The Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives."
We are looking for papers that respond to the conference's theme from the perspective of postcolonial and/or decolonial studies.
From the conference’s website,
Act fast! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 52 of The Victorians Institute Journal.
We are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 52 of the journal, which will be published later this year.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system. Any submissions uploaded after the April 1 deadline will be considered for Volume 53.
The Harold Pinter Review invites essays that consider the influence and effects that Harold Pinter’s plays have had on modern drama generally, including such aspects as style, staging, subject matter, characterizations, structure, and tone. We also invite essays that consider the stylistic and thematic relations between Pinter’s work and that of another contemporaneous playwright.
Which texts should be taught more often? Make the case for bringing a lost classic, under-studied gem, or important new work into the classroom. 250 word abstract, brief bio.
The process of coming out is often framed as a moment of self-realization, a turning point where individuals gain profound insight into their sexual orientation or gender identity. This panel seeks to explore how literature, film, television, and video games depict the mental, psychological, and emotional processes that LGBT individuals undergo as they recognize and articulate their identities.
Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).
UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 16, 2025
Dates: May 9–10, 2025
What will (or should) graduate education look like in 2035? What needs will graduate students have? How can programs best support grad students? What should grad students know now as they move from application to career that is different from ten or more years ago?
For this guaranteed panel, we seek presentations that address the many pathways to the PhD in our current times (and beyond), as well as updated guidance and advice for graduate students from application to career.
Potential papers might address, but are not limited to, the following:
Updated graduate school advice, from application to career;
In celebration of 50 yearsof scholarship and community, the 50th European StudiesConferencewill offer both online and in person panels at theUniversity of Nebraska Omaha and welcomespaperson European topics in all disciplines. Areasof interest include art, anthropology, history, literature, education, business, international affairs, religion, foreign languages, philosophy, geography, performing arts, and current issues in cultural, political, social, or economic areas of study.
Graduate students are invited to apply for the Best GraduateStudent Paper Award in the amount of $250. Deadline to submit their paper for consideration is1 September 2025.
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Session21868.html
This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.
We are seeking chapter abstracts on Zadie Smith’s short stories, non-fictional prose, The Embassy of Cambodia and The Fraud to be added to the confirmed chapters of a collection of essays on Zadie Smith to be published by an international publisher. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.
Contact mail: ataberkc@metu.edu.tr
Call for Chapters
Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak
Once again we invite you to join us in reflection on the contemporary literary culture. We understand it as an integral part of the global socio-cultural communication with its characteristic infrastructure and a dynamic system of relations between authors and audiences (to refer once more to the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and the complementary suggestions by Janusz Sławiński1) This time, we are interested in the question of collaboration, cooperation and participation in texts and discourses functioning in contemporary literary culture.
To what ends do narratives fail? If narrative is our way of making sense of the world (Herman 2004), why frustrate sense-making? Well-known in experimental fiction, film and video games (from Sterne, Stein and Rankine to Caché and The Stanley Parable), frustrated narratives also occur, intriguingly, in texts with more instrumental (practical, didactic, ideological) aims: documentaries, journalism, political discourse, advertising, etc.
Seeking chapters about African films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 50 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including the chapter "Trans Cinema from South Africa," and we welcome the following high-priority chapters on African films:
We warmly invite additional chapters for The Handbook of Trans Cinema, with high priority for chapters exploring transgender films from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Canada. Proposals due March 6. We already have over 50 confirmed chapters exploring trans films from 6 continents. After the following list of confirmed chapters, you will find details about how to submit your proposal for additional chapters. The handbook will include only one chapter for each topic, so please do not send proposals for any of the confirmed chapters listed here:
Seeking chapters about Latin American films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 50 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela. We welcome the following high-priority chapters on Latin American films: