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BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition)
Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies
【Special Issue】Global thinking and regional acting: From eco-aesthetics to cultural discourses of the Asian natural environment
Guest editor
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India; Durban University of Technology, South Africa
GoutamK@dut.ac.za
CALL FOR PAPERS
Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Solidarity and Spaces.
UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.
I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:
Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture
‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.
IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation
الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
10 – 13 December 2025
Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education
The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.
We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.
Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...
**Deadline for submissions extended to February 8th**
IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference
Landscapes of Language and Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format.
The decolonial, digital project Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online.
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech University)
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)
La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un
Colloque international :
Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs
Les 22 et 23 mai 2025
ARGUMENTAIRE
PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”
The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.
PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Henry James Society
Modern Language Association Convention
Toronto
8-11 January 2026
The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel.
James on James
“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference
Deadline: May 22, 2025
Conference Date: August 16, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)
Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium
Deadline: April 4, 2025
Symposium Date: May 11, 2025
Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: Noah Gallego @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Contact: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona @noahrgallego@gmail.com
Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis
Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Theme
Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.
Dates
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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)
When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS
The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025
The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two
currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer
2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and
expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.
About the Spelman Archives:
The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make
available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect
Call for Papers: Edited Collection on Sai Paranjpye
ReFocus: the Films of Sai Paranjpye
Contact Email: Tanushree Ghosh
Deadline for Abstracts: May 30th, 2025
Middle Cinema, Realism, and Everyday Life: Rethinking the Cinema of Sai Paranjpye
Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination
Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025
Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu
For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights
International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)
12-13th December 2025
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
Call for papers
From its origins in South African debates about the direction of the anti-apartheid movement, to its reinvention by Cedric Robinson as a theory of race and capital’s world-historical enmeshment, to its contemporary status as a master signifier for left-antiracist critique, racial capitalism is here to stay. Across fields and theories, archives and methods, it circulates as the authorizing ballast for any number of arguments: that capitalism differentiates rather than homogenizes; that anticapitalist politics must proceed from the existential grounding wire of alternative cosmologies; that race names the persistence of feudal social relations in the conceptual, libidinal, and political infrastructures of global modernity.
“Approaching Dystopia”
Call for Papers
Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025
After the Catastrophe. Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives”
Call for contribution: https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/123
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO
Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature.
Contributions can take two forms:
Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.
We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th, 2025. Proposal submissions are due on Saturday, February 1st, 2025, and can be submitted through this form.
We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave.
Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts
Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:
1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.
2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.