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CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 6:10pm
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:23pm
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

MSA 2025 Boston: CFP Modernist Mind Science

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”

 

Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.

 

Refugee Crises in Literature, Film and Mass Media: Balancing Humanitarian Obligation with Ethical Standards

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Department of English, University of Calgary Graduate Students’ Free Exchange Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 was intended to forestall global wars and inaugurate global peace. Despite its efforts and those of other international and regional organizations, wars have persisted in the 21st century. For instance, in Africa, countries are engulfed in the vortex of armed conflicts from the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to the farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria and the Somali government/Al-Shabab Islamist militant group conflict. This violence is echoed in the post-election tensions between the military and insurgents (Allied Democratic Forces) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just like the post-Tigray War conflicts in Ethiopia.

'Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing' 26-27 June, Conf. CfP

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
'Practicing Place'/KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

In the context of new political confrontations, ecological challenges, and heightened social polarizations, conflicts in practices of place are intensifying. Encounters with place across the humanities and social sciences often focus on matters of identification and delineation: that is, on making and doing place. Yet, every emplacement entails displacement. Understanding places as configurations of conflict raises questions on the entanglements of (un)doing that this conference seeks to centre, by exploring de-stabilisation, dis-location, and de-identification as practicing place. 

International Conference on "DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES"

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
SRM University Andhra Pradesh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

                                                    A Two-Day International Conference on

                                  DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES

                                                                   March 20-21,2025

                                      Organised by SRM University,Andhra Pradesh, India

Concept Note

Horror Studies Now (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Horror Studies Research Group, Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (29-30 May 2025, Northumbria University, UK)

Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies”, are invited to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, hosted by the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudies), on 29-30 May 2025.

Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond” International Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

“Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond”

International Conference

Sibiu, Romania | 1-3.07. 2025

                                    

Lucian Blaga University is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the upcoming international conference, “Tragic Form Across Europe and Beyond,” to be held between July 1-3 in Sibiu, Romania. The conference aims to explore tragedy as it is reflected in literature, theater, and other cultural forms from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on European (semi)peripheries and non-European cultural spaces. 

Caméra-Stylo 6 Conference: The Entanglement - Networks, Intersections, Polyphonies, and Intertextuality in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
Sydney Literature and Cinema Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025 

Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.  

(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)

ATHE - Religion and Theater

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:14pm
Association for Theater in Higher Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

Call For Papers
Religion & Theatre Focus Group – Emerging Scholars Panel
Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2025 Conference
This years conference is virtual
July 28 – Aug. 1, 2025 General Conference
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2025 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2025 Conference Theme:
The Real
The binary opposition between “real” and “virtual” is ever more outdated and unnecessary. Theatre and performance has always been both real and representation. ATHE 2025: The Real invites us to consider the real effects of a virtual conference.

L.M. Montgomery and Change

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:14pm
L.M. Montgomery Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 17th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island,
24-28 June 2026

“It seemed to open such dizzying possibilities of change.” — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“All she really wanted, or seemed to want, was to…see that as few changes as possible came into existence there.”— L.M. Montgomery, Mistress Pat

“Is it really the same world I saw then that I see now? It seems so very different.” — L.M. Montgomery, Selected Journals vol. I

“The only constant in life is change.” —Heraclitus

 

Extinction and Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts (Conference Panel)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
47th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) Conference: Oulu, Finland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

In Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew insist that capturing the breadth of a disaster of this scale is “an inherently interdisciplinary task, one that draws us into conversation with a host of different ways of making sense of others’ world” (4). To portray this polycrisis as too large to be contained to one discipline is apt, with credible estimates designating between one- and two-thirds of species on earth as “likely to disappear within the foreseeable future” (Myers et al., 856).

Call for Papers: Latin American Fandoms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us to explore the representation (Aranda et al., 2013) and appropriation (Yucra-Quispe et al., 2022) of national content (telenovelas and narcocorridos) as well as content from other countries, whether it be movies or streaming platforms.    

Crises of the Self, Selves in Crisis: Personal, Collective, and Planetary Narratives across Forms

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:13pm
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The intersection between crises and selves has long been a fertile ground across literary and artistic explorations. This CFP invites papers that examine how individual and collective crises—ranging from pandemics, ecological disasters, and political upheavals to personal and generational trauma—have shaped the articulation of selfhood across literature, film, visual art, and other media. Through this topic, we urge scholars to explore how various identity positions and orientations interact with crises to produce unique modes of writing the self. 

International Conference on Global Best Practices in Education

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY) DELHI NCR
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

Education systems worldwide are undergoing significant transformations driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving societal needs. Exploring global best practices in education offers valuable insights into strategies that enhance teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and institutional excellence. This international conference aims to bring together educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to share and learn from exemplary educational practices that have proven successful in diverse cultural and institutional contexts.

Objectives

  1. To identify and analyze global best practices in education that enhance learning outcomes.

MLA 2026 call for paper:Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
Claire Rodan/ University of Maryland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Panel Title: Quantum Narratives: AI and Multiverse in Asian American Literature and Film E-mail Address: claire.yijiec@gmail.com Description & Requirements: This panel explores how speculative discourses around AI, quantum physics, or the multiverse influence representations of identity and consciousness in Asian American literature and film. Submit abstracts to Erin Suzuki: esuzuki@ucsd.edu ; Claire Rodan: cchen200@umd.edu Submission Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025 

Books That Teach Us About Character - Free Literary Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:11pm
LitFest in the Dena 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

What can books teach us about character? The people in literary works face moral dilemmas—choosing between personal gain and doing the right thing, whatever the consequences. Fictional heroes often explore the boundaries of character, asking us which traits we deem noble. The same choices and internal struggles appear in nonfiction works such as biographies or histories, deepened by the impact of character on the real world. Looking at character in books helps us stay true to our values, even in the most threatening of circumstances. By immersing ourselves in the stories of others—be they true or imagined—we develop a stronger moral compass and a deeper understanding of how to live with character.

Technology and Late-19th- and Early-20th-century American Literature

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:10pm
MLA forum on Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This call seeks paper proposals for a panel at the 2026 MLA convention that explores the intersections between American literature and various emergent or developing technologies during the period of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The panel is sponsored by the MLA Forum on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature.

Participants with accepted papers must be members of the MLA by April 7, 2025.

The 2026 MLA Convention will be held in Toronto, Canada, on January 8-11, 2026.

Please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to Heather.Ostman@sunywcc.edu by March 15, 2025.

SSAWW 2025: “The History and Future of Author Societies"

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society seeks proposals for a roundtable discussion at the next meeting of SSAWW, held in Philadelphia from November 6-9, 2025.  The theme of this year’s SSAWW is “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW.”  With this theme in mind, our roundtable is titled “The History and Future of Author Societies.”  The roundtable will ideally consist of participants from various author societies, who will discuss anticipated changes and relevance for author societies, talking about both their histories and their imagined futures.  We imagine this roundtable will examine many of the important elements highlighted in the call for papers for the conference, including the way that author societies create communities to “en

2025 Ceræ Call For Papers – Conference & Journal

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Ceræ - An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to both CFPs 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.

MLA 2026 (Toronto, Canada) Special Session: Queer Cultures of the Hispanic World: 19th and 20th Centuries

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:09pm
Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

How have modern Hispanic queer cultures taken shape and been remembered, forgotten or censored over time? What networks or collaborations sustained them in and beyond Spain and Latin America? Send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios in English or Spanish.

 

Submission deadline: March 10, 2025 

 

Contact information: 

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State U, KS (jzamostny@ksu.edu

“A Conversation about Coalition Building: The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis”

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:08pm
Margaret Fuller Society at 2025 SSAWW
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

2025 Conference | 6–9 November 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

“A Conversation about Coalition Building:

The Role of Women Author Societies in Times of Political Crisis”

organized by the Margaret Fuller Society

 

2025 SC State Intersectional Studies Remote Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:08pm
Department of English and Communications at SC State
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 21, 2025

CFP: 2025 International Remote ISC at SC State 

March 28, 2024 via Zoom

Crossing Borders: Building Bridges in Today’s Global Community

 

The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for individual twenty-minute papers/presentations for the 2025 Intersectional Studies Remote Conference via Zoom on Friday, March 28, 2025.

 

International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 11:27am
Yanli He (Sichuan University, Harvard University), Fabio Akcelrud Durão (State University of Campinas),Yingchun Dong (Guanxi Minzu University), Tingting Sun (Yunan University of Finance and Economics)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference on (Former)Third World Literature and Culture

Conference Theme: “What happens to (Former)Third World Literature and Culture in a Multipolar World?”

Keynote Speakers: Theo D’haen (Ku Leuven), Svend Eric Larsen (Aarhus University), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)

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