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Call for Submissions: Living in Languages Journal
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From John Shirley’s chatty incipits to the petitionary envois of courtly poetry, medieval lyrics often come down to us attached to specific situations. By situation we mean both the immediate rhetorical occasion that a poem addresses and the broader social circumstances that give rise to it. Responding to the recent renewal of scholarly interest in Middle English lyric (e.g. Ingrid Nelson’s Lyric Tactics [Penn] and What Kind of Thing Is Middle English Lyric?, ed. Nicholas Watson and Cristina Cervone [Penn]), this panel will explore the critical affordances of the situation, as opposed to broader frameworks such as context or history, in the study of vernacular lyric.
CFP: NCS 2026
This roundtable seeks to host a discussion of Chaucer’s position in the study of Anglophone literature beyond the North Atlantic and Australia. We will hear about the institutional and vocational challenges faced by Chaucerians in what Braj Kachru called “the expanding circle,” i.e. countries in which English serves as a major second language. How is Chaucer scholarship beginning to take hold, or even spreading, in new ways and in new contexts? What opportunities do these contexts present for the teaching and study of Chaucer and Middle English? What role do translations of Chaucer play in teaching and scholarship? Participants will open with brief prepared remarks in order to allow ample time for conversation and discussion.
A symposium on Darkness
Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”
We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.
Focus and Themes
This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694
Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.
The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
“Things That Go Bump in the Night: An International Literary Conference on All Things Scary”
Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2025
Organized by Anais Shelley, Undergraduate at Troy University
October 16th-18th, 2025 – To be hosted online
Welcoming submissions for a free scholarly conference on scary literature to be hosted online from October 16th-18th, 2025 by Troy University undergraduate student, Anais Shelley.
Research may draw inspiration from (but is not limited to) these prompts:
Supernatural themes
Domestic horror
FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.
Here are texts that we have available:
STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson
THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson
THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman
KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier
DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer
CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss
We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.
We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”
Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link).
Call for Papers
Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature
(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)
Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)
Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.
National Identities (T&F)
Special Issue Editors:
Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University.
Email: deb61594@gmail.com
Parvin Sultana, Department of Political Science, Pramathesh Barua College (Affiliated to Gauhati University)
Email: parvin.jnu@gmail.com
Xenophobia and Violence in Asia
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Hitchcock's America
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium
Sunday, 20 July 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for another panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium, which will run on Sunday, 20 July 2025.
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.
Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:
Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.
This session is a sepcial session at 122nd PAMLA Conference between Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025 located at San Francisco, California.
Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.
This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.
The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.
We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.
The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.
Abstract
Popular culture serves as a powerful pedagogical force, often subtly and overtly shaping our understanding of the world, ourselves, and others. From the narratives we consume in film and television to the interactions we engage in on social media, popular culture offers frameworks for understanding social norms, historical events, scientific concepts, and the very nature of identity itself. This session aims to unpack the processes through which knowledge is produced, validated, contested, and internalized within and via popular culture, as well as how these processes intersect with the lived experiences and representations of various identities.
Possible Panel Topics May Include, but are not limited to:
For this special issue on “Staying Put,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that engage with “staying put” as a conceptual framework and/or as a foundational aspect of theatre, dance, and performance studies scholarship. This theme is inspired by the resilience performance groups have historically exhibited—and continue to exhibit—in response to challenges such as the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising rents, lack of funding, and political instability. Many practitioners and companies have resisted displacement, remaining in the spaces where they cultivate their craft, generate new artistic possibilities, and engage with their communities. A notable example is Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado.
In her introduction to a special section in a 2002 issue of Dance Chronicle, Sally Banes called for attention to an emerging subfield in dance studies that she dubbed “critical institutional studies.”[1] Distinct from what were established discourses of institutional critique in art history and visual and media studies, critical institutional studies would align more directly with critical museum studies, new materialisms, and Marxist criticism in its focus on material structures of support for dance creation, presentation, and reception. Since Banes’s 2002 call, predominant strands of “critical institutional studies” have emerged in relation to theatre, dance, and performance studies.
Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.
This session delves into the rich and multifaceted landscape of Spanish and Portuguese literature, film, and cultural studies within the Iberian Peninsula. We invite submissions that engage with a broad spectrum of topics, particularly those that foreground the experiences of traditionally marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) the Gypsy/Romani and Afro-Hispanic populations. Areas of interest may also encompass gender studies, migration and exile, political ideologies, poverty, violence, motherhood, masculinity, memory, and the dynamics of remembrance and forgetting.
ABSTRACT
Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge)
Edited by Nahum N. Welang
Theme:
The ninth BAKEA (International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium), which was first organized in 2009 by the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Pamukkale University, will be hosted this year by the Departments of French Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, and Russian Language and Literature at Selçuk University. The main theme of this year’s symposium has been entitled as “fiction,” with the aim of bringing together theoretical and applied studies from relevant disciplines.