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Diverse Francophonie
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23
San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
Abstracts due May 15, 2025
PAMLA Undergraduate Forum
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23
San Francisco, California | InterContinental Hotel San Francisco
Abstracts due May 15, 2025
Norman Klein deploys the term “social imaginary” in The History of Forgetting as a category of a built environment, the assemblage of which necessarily involves a significant erasure of a material domain. The social imaginary can also be used, however, to interrogate an individual’s belief in the continuity of self-identity. Always already in the imagined self, after all, is the rebuke of self-instigated doubt: just how much difference can a person tolerate between the “me” that others would claim to know and the cherished, even if fossilized, image one’s consciousness seems beholden to?
The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic
Perspectives on the Media in American Culture and Society
to be held in person and online
on May 17, 2025.
In-person panels will be held in Martin Luther King Hall
1st floor, 7-13 Pitar Moș St., Sector 1, Bucharest.
Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association for 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
This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.
Note: this conference has a hybrid format (both virtual and in-person sessions). This session will be virtual.
In partnership with UK’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Department, “Leveling Up the Classroom” is continuing with a central focus on the integration of digital technologies and media into classroom settings. The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments.
MLA 2026 Convention (Toronto), non-guaranteed roundtable
In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.
In keeping with this year’s MMLA conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this permanent session is seeking proposals, which discuss how we “make our case” for Early Modern English. How do we explain to our audiences – both in our classrooms and in public settings – on what interests us and motivates our scholarly activities? How do we demonstrate impact and encourage further participation? Where does the study of Early Modern English align with other organizations and initiatives designed to promote the humanities in public life? What has worked for us? What hasn’t?
Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales
In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!
About the project
2025 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Student Fellowship
A "melange" is a term denoting works of art and literature that combine multiple forms, genres, and/or media.
The new Princeton publication Melange: A Journal of Prose Poetry and the Arts accepts creative melanges, melanges in translation, and critical essays about melanges. Anyone may submit to Melange - professors, students, and independent scholars alike.
In Spring 2025, we are publishing both a regular issue and a special issue. For the regular issue, we are looking for prose poetry, essays, visual art, translations, and combinations of the above. For the Special Issue Fantasy Dictionary, we are publishing entries from the Fantasy Dictionary Contest.
We invite submissions for our panel “Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World” to be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference in San Francisco, November 20-23, 2025. Please see call below:
Reimagining Asian Diasporas With/in the Francophone World
In some ways, war does not change. In others, it is constantly in flux. Contemporary warfare is aided, disrupted, and mediated by ever-developing digital technologies, semi-autonomous and autonomous weapons and equipment, deepfake AI propaganda, mediation through social media, and much more. These shifts suggest that contemporary warfare is in some sense a ‘new’ modality of conflict, or at least that it has new and distinctive characteristics that are in urgent need of analysis and critique. What is clear is that we must scrutinize the utility of the central binaries that structure our knowledge of war—wartime and peacetime, battlefield and safe zone, innocence and complicity—in order to understand the state of contemporary armed conflict.
In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 15, 2025
Final Chapter Submission: December 30, 2025
Editors: Aswathi Velayathikode Anand (Visiting Assistant Professor, IIM Indore, India) & Swathi Krishna S. (Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, India)
Contact Emails: aswathiv@iimidr.ac.in, swathi@iitbbs.ac.in
Stories of Strength and Survival: Resilient Women in Indian Fiction(Edited Collection) (With a strong publishing interest from Bloomsbury Publishing, USA)
MMLA 2025 American Literature II: Lit after 1870 Permanent Section CFP
Spanish----
“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”
CFP: PAMLA 2025
Seriality, Repetition, and Adaptation in 21st-Century Storytelling
Special Session for Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Location: San Francisco, California at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel
Conference: Thursday, November 20 through Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
Presiding officer:
Mavis Tseng,
Associate Professor, Director of the Language Center
Taipei Medical University
Abstract
CONCEPT NOTE:
The Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Peter Lang, seeks to organise a conference entitled “Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” from 9 to 10 September 2025.
We at Ceræ are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions that contemplate what is the arguably most ubiquitous and diverse literary genre of the medieval and early modern centuries.
Dreams and visions could be personal or communal. They could be of the past, present, or future. Some touched on real events or people, while others were entirely imaginary, and most were somewhere in between. They can encompass the horrors of nightmares to the bliss of salvation, or calls for political freedom and mobilisation as much as an afternoon daydreaming in the sunshine.
June 26-28, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe
Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature
Anderson University
Anderson, SC
October 23-25, 2025
Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret
Film Journal Thematic Issue Proposal: First Films and Early Style
Co-editors: Omid Bagherli and Charline Jao
We are seeking prospective contributers for a special issue of Film Journal on the topic of early style.
Millions experienced physical and mental trauma as a result of the First World War. Government and private organizations attempted to mitigate the war’s impact in multiple ways – whether through direct medical care, through social support, or through rehabilitative assistance. This panel seeks to explore official and unofficial infrastructures of caregiving that surfaced during the war and postwar periods, with particular interest in the way that these systems are examined and evaluated in writing and the visual arts. Papers on all aspects of the war’s caregiving infrastructure are welcome.
The first Canadian conference on agri-food and rural advisory, extension, and education (CAREE) will be held at the University of Guelph, 29-31 October 2025. The conference theme is extension 4.0: disruption and transformation in agri-food and rural development. It highlights the growing recognition of the Canadian approach to agri-food development. The conference addresses an overarching scholarly and policy discussion, both globally and regionally, that has long been captivated by a compelling question: Does Canada have an effective agri-food and rural extension and advisory service?
1.“Femmes écrivains à la croisée des savoirs / Women Writers at The Crossroads of Knowledge”