Goethe as World Literature (MLA, Toronto, January 8-11, 2026)
"Goethe as World Literature"
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"Goethe as World Literature"
Panel sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g.
Technology is advancing rapidly, reshaping language resources and access, and the translation and interpretation (TI) fields across industry sectors, from the legal to the educational. How is this evolution impacting literature and creative contents? Is technology hindering or advancing creativity, and will multilingual expressions become more (in)visible, (ir)relevant, and (in)accessible? These critical questions suggest a new frontier for the language professions, especially in the arena of literary and multimedia production.
Literary Infrastructure and the Precarity of Modernist Writers
Below is an updated list of texts available for review in The Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Reviewers must be professors, independent scholars, or professionals who hold a PhD or terminal degree in their field. Advanced graduate students are also encouraged to reply.
Email the Book Review Editor at jsrbookreview@gmail.com in order to review a text listed below. We also welcome and encourage ideas on other texts related to radicalism.
For the 2025 edition of Multiplatform, the Manchester Game Centre teams up with the MMU research group DVRK – Dark Arts Research Kollective – to host a conference exploring the intersections between games and occulture, investigating the transformative potential of games as forms of rituals to explore alternative histories and speculate on radical futures.
Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes
Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics
University of Kent
23 – 24 June 2025
** Deadline for abstracts extended to Monday 17 March 2025 **
‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration
This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.
We seek submissions for chapters for inclusion in an interdisciplinary book that seeks to examine the
Transatlantic Slave Trade and its re-telling through cinematic representation and pedagogical instruction.
Chattel slavery (enslavement through conquest, birth, gender, race, ethnicity, kinship, and exploitation of
indebtedness) has long been endemic to varied societies. Its Transatlantic iteration saw at least 10 million
Africans brought to the Americas. Now, two centuries after its legal abolition, how do we conceptualize,
represent, and teach about that period, its legacy, and its relationship to both media and education without
This panel invites papers on transnational influences among liberation theologies worldwide or on comparisons of theologians’ negotiations between Christianity and Marxism in their local contexts. Submit a 150-word abstract and a short bio to Youngkyun Choi (youngkch@umich.edu).
Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper30421.html
Conference online (via Zoom): 27-28 March 2025
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
CFP: In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.
The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025.
Call for Book Chapters
Title: The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America
Editor: Prof. Hamid Masfour
Dept. of English
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University
Beni Mellal, Morocco
Deadline for abstract submission: August15,2024
Book Argument
Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals
When Worlds Collide: Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling
The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.
This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania. For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit:
'The Soliloquist Magazine' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Spring 2025 issue Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com Submission deadline: April 05, 2025 The Soliloquist Magazine is inviting poems and soliloquies for its first issue (Spring 2025 issue
RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg
Edinburgh University Press
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.
The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal, has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its June, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.
Conference online (via Zoom)
27-28 March 2025
CFP:
In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.
Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing
26th - 27th June 2025
Deadline for Submissions: March 10th 2025
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY'S JUNE 2025 ISSUEWebsite: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.comSubmission Deadline: June 18, 2025Call for: poems, short stories, memoirs and one minute plays. Literature Today- an International Literary Journal is inviting submissions for the JUNE 2025 issue of 'Literature Today'.
Call for Papers - IEEE AI Test 2025
"6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing"
July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, United States
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve and integrate into various applications, ensuring their reliability, robustness, and security is critical. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AI TEST 2025) serves as a premier venue for researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to exchange insights, methodologies, and innovations in AI testing and validation.
The LLC African American Forum and The College Language Association invite abstracts for a panel at the MLA Convention (January 8-11, 2026 in Toronto, CA). The proposed panel, "A Light on the Lesser Known: Black Writers and their Work," will explore understudied and underdiscussed writers, or understudied and underdiscussed works by well-known authors, within the Black Literary Tradition.
Please email abstracts (250 words) and bios (150 words) to McKinley E. Melton (meltonm@rhodes.edu) by Friday, 21 March 2025.
Please note: accepted panelists will need to be active members of both MLA African American Forum and the College Language Association by April 1, 2025.
Call For Papers - IEEE BigDataService 2025
"The 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine Learning Applications"
July 21-24, 2025 | Tucson, Arizona, USA
As computing systems grow increasingly complex, distributed, and integrated, Big Data technologies and services are more critical than ever. IEEE BigDataService 2025 serves as a premier international venue for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to exchange innovative ideas and share cutting-edge research findings, experiences, and lessons learned.
Diasporic literature is often deeply engaged with the tensions between displacement and belonging, rupture and continuity, loss and recovery. In narratives of migration, exile, and forced displacement, family becomes both a site of longing and a contested space where histories of trauma and survival play out. Diasporic texts frequently challenge normative understandings of kinship, moving beyond biological ties to reimagine family through memory, affect, and political solidarities.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a quarterly journal that includes papers read at the American Philosophical Society’s biannual meetings, independent, peer-reviewed essays by outside scholars, and biographical memoirs of APS Members. The journal also captures talks by today’s prominent professionals, scholars, and scientists that will not be published elsewhere. Recent topics include Abraham Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome, the philosophical problem of uncertainty in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, old phrenology versus new phrenology, the fascination with twins, and what makes a genuine Picasso.
This is a non-guaranteed panel co-sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum and the TS Age Studies Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances”, we are interested in opening conversations on the interdisciplinary intersections of Health Humanities, Children’s Literature, and Age Studies. These offer a rich space for exploring how contemporary narratives shape our understanding of mental health across generations.
We are looking for submissions for our JUNE 2025 anthology.
The theme of the June 2025 issue is 'LOVE'. Please send us mini plays and monologues on this theme.
The length of a mini play or monologue should not exceed 2 pages of text.
Last date of submission: June 15th, 2025
Please send your work to miniplaysmag@gmail.com
Submit your high definition photo in JPEG format for publication with your work.
The peer-reviewed, online and open access journal Studies in Testimony is currently accepting submissions on an on-going basis. The call for submissions is intentionally broad in nature, allowing for submissions that look at emerging areas of academic interest, in addition to those of continued and lasting relevance from a wide range of academic disciplines including, but certainly not limited to, literature, critical theory, history and psychoanalysis.
Subject areas could include, but are not limited to:
By 2026, all nine volumes of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins will be published, including the much-anticipated final volume in the series, Poetry. The 2026 international Hopkins conference will focus on the new research possibilities and provocations afforded by the texts. Hopkins 2026 will be held in historic Salem, Massachusetts (USA), at Salem State University, and will feature a Hopkins display and reception at the Burns Library, Boston College.
Topics could include:
• How to reassess Hopkins’ texts because of newly available materials.
• Hopkins the collector (of inscapes; of sensations; the writings of others).
• How to rethink Hopkins’s position in the “collectivity” of Victorian writers.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 14, 2025