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[NeMLA 2026] Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 2:11pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

NeMLA’s 57th Annual Convention

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom.

 


 

Session Title: Touching the World at the Speed of Light: Community and Conflict in the Global Village

 

SWCCL 2025

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 2:00pm
Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

UPDATED SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

The organizers are extending the deadline for submissions until August 15, 2025.

 

The Department of Languages and Literature and the College of Liberal Arts at Northeastern State University will be hosting the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual regional meeting on October 24-25, 2025 at Northeastern State University’s campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55am
CEAUL/ULICES, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 12, 2025

Hobhouse's career was ultimately marked by his election as a Fellow of the British Academy a hundred years ago, in 1925.Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864-1929) was an extremely dynamic scholar and journalist, who wrote prolifically on a wide variety of subjects that were invariably closely related to the political and social reality of his time. Politics and sociology were, in fact, the two great fields that inspired most of the author's writings. Besides being a vigorous political thinker, Hobhouse was also one of the founding fathers of sociology in England and held the first Professorship of this discipline in the country. In fact, within the ideological sphere, L. T.

Labor in America: Perspectives on the African American Contribution

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55am
The 8th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference, Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 30, 2025

                                            

Call for Papers

The 8th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: Labor in America: Perspectives on the African American Contribution

Conference Dates: October 24, 2025

Venue:  Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Submission DeadlineAugust 30, 2025

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy #11 (General Issue)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55am
JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy invites submissions for its 2026 issue (no. 11). This open call welcomes contributions on any topic within the purview of American Studies, with no thematic restrictions.

JAm It! is an annual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing innovative scholarship in American Studies. We encourage submissions across diverse critical perspectives, including but not limited to literature, cultural studies, history, sociolinguistics, political science, and pedagogy. We especially welcome transdisciplinary and trans-hemispheric approaches, as well as scholarly work that fosters dialogues between European and non-European perspectives on North American culture. 

Daniel Deronda at 150 Years

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
Victorian Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Victorian Review is currently accepting submissions for a forum on George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Derondato mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Guest edited by Eliot scholar Ilana Blumberg, “Daniel Deronda at 150 Years” will appear in VR 51.2. We seek readable, engaging, and focused pieces of 1200-1500 words, inclusive of notes and works cited, and we welcome a wide range of themes, styles, and approaches, both personal and academic. 

Possible topics include but are not limited to: 

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Ireland Beyond the Anthropocene

September 25 – 28, 2025
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC

(Re)Generating Keywords for EcoLatinx Studies and Praxis

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
Jennifer Vilchez (Rutgers University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

You are invited to submit an abstract for this panel for the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention to be held on March 5–8, 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Wyndham Grand Hotel Downtown.

W.B. YEATS: DUBLINER

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
International Yeats Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 25, 2025

W.B. YEATS: DUBLINER30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin  

 

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

JOYCE’S “WORLD OF WORDS”

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
The James Joyce Italian Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 9, 2025

The XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

 

Joyce’s “world of words”

 

Conference Dates: 4-6 February 2026

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2025

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY

NOVEMBER 30, 2025

  

Keynote speakers:

▪       Declan Kiberd, University of Notre Dame

▪       Annalisa Volpone, University of Perugia

 

Concealed Identities, Stage Personas, and Masked Singers in Heavy Metal (Edited Collection)

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Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
Studies in Heavy Metal Music & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

We invite chapters for a multi-disciplinary edited collection exploring heavy metal and rock bands that use concealed identities, stage personas and masks as a substantial part of their performance and aesthetic. Hidden identities are not a new phenomenon in either popular music generally or heavy metal/hard rock music more narrowly, as performers obscuring their identity through face paint, masks, and wigs goes back over half a century and encompasses bands including Kiss, Slipknot, and Gwar. New masked bands, including Sleep Token and Ghost, have recently risen to widespread popularity.

RADIATION: Material Connection Across Distance

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
ENERGY Project University of Dundee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

RADIATION

Material Connection Across Distance 

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference

Dundee, Scotland, 3 – 4 December 2025

 

The Power of Fabulation: Myth-Making, Storytelling and Speculation as Resistance

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
Benoît Loiseau (NYU)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Rooted in the ancient tradition of fabula, the concept of fabulation (or fonction fabulatrice) was perhaps most explicitly introduced to the modern philosophical lexicon by Henri Bergson, who described it as a “special faculty of voluntary hallucination.” It was later revisited by Gilles Deleuze, both with and without Félix Guattari, as a “speech act, an act of speech” that transgresses the boundary between the personal and the political, producing “collective utterances.”

Graduate Journal aspeers Calls for Papers on "American Spaces of Resistance" by Oct 19, 2025

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:53am
aspeers: emerging voices in american studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 19, 2025

The ‘No Kings’ protests on June 14, 2025, incited millions of people across the United States to oppose the policies of Donald Trump’s second presidency, manifesting an outspoken resistance against forms of autocracy. While the fervor and visibility of protesting has wavered throughout US history, sites and moments of resistance (against the government, specific policies, businesses, individuals, etc.) dominate the nation’s collective memory: from the anti-monarchist sentiment linking ‘No Kings’ to the Boston Tea Party, from the abolitionist movement to demonstrations against the Vietnam War, from the Stonewall uprising to Occupy Wall Street or the #MeToo movement.

Stephen King and MAGA Dystopia: from The Dead Zone to Holly

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:53am
NeMLA Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Stephen King and MAGA Dystopia: from The Dead Zone to Holly

 

This panel welcomes papers about Stephen King antagonists that foreshadow the rise of Trump & MAGA (e.g., Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone), as well as other contemporary American authors and narratives that anticipate or reflect the nation's current dystopic climate and contentious culture wars.

 

Check out the full cfp via the link below and please spread the word

https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

 

Happy Summer!

John Wargacki

Medievalisms in Time and Space

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:53am
The International Society for the Study of Medievalism
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 

Call for Papers

Medievalisms in Time and Space

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference

Fully Online

November 14th and 15th, 2025

Hosted by Anita Obermeier at the University of New Mexico

We welcome submissions considering aspects of Medievalisms in Time (any temporalities or relationships between them) and Space (inner spaces, Outer Space and outer spaces, contested spaces, geographies real and imagined, trans-temporalities); Trans-medievalisms of all kinds (such as transgender medievalisms, transformative medievalisms, transgressive medievalisms).

C19 2026: Rhizomatic Gender

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:53am
Will Younts, Eagan Dean
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 10, 2025

C19 Conference, Cincinnati, OH

March 12-14, 2026

Interpreting the Hunger Games Prequels: A New Generation

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:52am
Thomas Paradis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Scholars, authors, and related professionals are invited to submit chapter proposals for a forthcoming edited volume interpreting Collins’ two Hunger Games “prequel” novels from a wide array of educational perspectives and disciplinary lenses. Following immediately on the heels of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Scholastic Publishing most recently shocked the Hunger Games fandom with the release of a second prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping (2025), to widely positive acclaim.

MAPACA: Gothic Studies

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:46am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Gothic Studies CFP for MAPACA 2025: The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association is accepting proposals until July 31 for their 2025 conference, Nov 6 - 8, in Philadelphia, PA. General guidelines can be found at mapaca.net and below. Please consider submitting to the Gothic Studies area: https://mapaca.net/areas/gothic-studies

Hemingway In Toronto 2026

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:45am
The Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre and The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Hemingway in Toronto

July 22-27, 2026 | Toronto, Canada

The Hemingway Society invites proposals for the 21st International Hemingway Conference, exploring Hemingway’s ties to Toronto and his broader literary legacy.

Toronto was a pivotal stop in Hemingway’s early career—a place where he honed his craft as a journalist, earned his first bylines at The Toronto Star, and briefly settled to welcome his first child in 1923. The 2026 conference offers an opportunity to revisit these formative years and discuss Hemingway’s impact from multiple perspectives.

Photography / Intensity / Measure (Call for Book Chapter)

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:45am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Photography / Intensity / Measure

Call for Book Chapters

Questions of measurement, and how it shapes or is problematized by photography, have become increasingly important in recent years. This has been provoked by the development and consolidation of digital networked imaging technologies, the massive expansion of social media, advances in machine learning, the sheer scale of image datasets, and the development of AI imaging platforms. Novel forms such as Point Cloud, Giga-pixel and Light-Field imaging, to mention just a few, have challenged accepted ideas of measure and how they structure the visual.

Crisis of Writing in the Time of the "Limit-Experience"

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:44am
Nozomi Irei/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Eighty years after the end of WWII, questions remain about the adequacy, let alone possibility, of language to convey the "limit-experience." Yoko Ota, writing City of Corpses [shikabane no machi] just days after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, acknowledges that the writer’s challenge is nearly impossible in the face of such an unprecedented weapon. Nevertheless, she still responds to the intense urgency to write.

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