“Reimagining the Past: When Cinema Rewrites History”
The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.
Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July.
We are looking forward to another engaging and rewarding conference for new and seasoned members alike. We are seeking proposals for panels and presentations for this year’s conference.
The Film & History Permanent Panel seeks papers for presentation.
Willa Cather: Forms, Genres, and Traditions
Willa Cather: Forms, Genres, and Traditions
Meeting the (Re)Generated Other (In-Person only panel)
We invite papers for the panel “Meeting the (Re)Generated Other” at NeMLA 2026 annual convention. This panel is in-person only.
What will we want from the constructed companions and servants we build? And what will they want/take from us? SF writers, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and game designers imagine futures featuring sentient artificial beings—domestics, soldiers, sexual partners, protectors—interacting with the humans that make them. These texts operate as thought experiments about how we natural-born humans might coexist and interact with the posthumans we will shortly create.
Ecocritical Approaches to the Work of Cherrie Moraga (NEMLA 2026)
In honor of the 45th anniversary of the publication of This Bridge Called My Back, this panel seeks to explore the many ways in which ecocritical theory has expressed itself in the critical writings, poetry, prose, memoirs, and plays of Cherrie Moraga. In a time of extreme climate change denialism and the continued increase in global temperatures, directly leading to such climate disasters as the January 2025 wildfires in Southern California and the flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in the southern Appalachias in September 2024, Moraga's work will be read for approaches to climate resistance and positive change.
NeMLA 2026 In-person Roundtable: "AI in the Composition Classroom: Game-Changer, Gimmick, or Grift"
Who’s afraid of Generative AI? At this in-person (only) roundtable session, we intend to find out by revisiting our post-pandemic practices in the composition classroom. In two of our previous peer-reviewed publications from 2013 and 2014, we questioned the acumen of the “digital native,” as Marc Prensky famously termed the respective generation of university students. To a large degree, and with sometimes surprising results, the collective COVID-era put the technological abilities of these students to the test. At our 2024 NeMLA roundtable, we again assessed this population in light of course design and delivery through the “emergency remote” and “blended” modes of instruction necessitated by the pandemic.
New Perspectives on Central American Literature and Cinema
During the past years, there has been a renewed interest in the study of Central American cultural productions. As the geopolitical interests of the Americas and the world are shifting towards new configurations, the countries of Central America have also started garnering interest from scholars in the Americas and Europe. This panel seeks to foster a dialogue amongst scholars and researchers exploring new critical perspectives that analyze both new and classic works of literature and cinema from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Belize.
3RD UTAD Conference "Evolution" (Turkish Society for Theatre Research) (extended deadline 30 June)
3rd International UTAD Theatre Research Conference
“Evolution”
Transformations in Theatre, Drama, and Performance
Hosted by:
Turkish Society for Theatre Research (UTAD), Süleyman Demirel University, Departments of English Language and Literature and Theatre, Türkiye
Conference Dates: 4-5-6 September 2025
Venue: Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Türkiye
Early Modern Stationers and their Shop Signs (RSA 2026 Paper Panel)
This panel interrogates early modern stationer signs by situating them within topographical and cultural contexts of the period. Before the advent of numbered street addresses, wooden signboards fixed in the frontages of printing houses and bookshops signaled sites of literary and social exchange. These signs did double duty: they were simultaneously public-facing trade emblems and paratexts in the title-page imprints of books they authorized. As uniquely biblio-visual arguments, then, they worked in concert to broadcast a stationer’s stock, specialization, and geopositioning in the book trade.
Previously on...: Queer Representation, Racist Ideologies, and the Cultural Navigation of Reality TV
This virtual panel will discuss and argue how reality shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race, We’re Here, Survivor, The Rehearsal, and Nathan for You challenge expectations and limitations of narrative and media, and how these shows impact social and cultural understanding of underrepresented communities through spectacle, queerness, race, and gender.
This panel welcomes papers, presentations, and works-in-progress (?!) on reality television and how this genre intersects with critical race and gender studies, critical media studies, fan studies, and digital fandom subcultures.
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21837
Transcendental Rhetoric in the Times of Rise of GenAI
In the words of Nathan Crick, transcendentalism is a “rhetorical genre of public advocacy” and “a way of crossing a divide or reconciling a contradiction through a radical act of imagination whereby people are able to see and judge themselves from the perspectives of some distant and different ‘beyond’ (9). How can the transcendentalist philosophy of learning inform our 21st-century pedagogy of higher education, when GenAI is rising? GenAI's one challenge in higher education, especially in teaching writing and interpreting literature, is its increasingly seamless integration into digital devices, which has posed a threat of erasing learners' self or individual voice and perpetuating algorithmic bias.
The Pittsburgh Review of Books (PRoB)
This September the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University will be launching a new publication called the Pittsburgh Review of Books (or PRoB). To be edited by author and Public Humanities Special Faculty Ed Simon, PRoB will be a home for engaged, creative, and interdisciplinary cultural criticism and analysis across the humanities. The tone of the publication will be similar to other para-academic publications intended for both specialists and a general audience. In addition to book reviews and excerpts, essays and criticism across the humanities and social sciences will be published. Queries and pitches are to be sent to Ed Simon at esimon@andrew.cmu.edu.
The Works of Tonino Guerra
Dear Colleagues,
I am editing a volume dedicated to the work of the prolific Italian poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra (1920–2012). The book is under contract with Bloomsbury Academic.
Guerra is perhaps best known for his collaborations with auteurs including Federico Fellini (Amarcord), Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert), Andrei Tarkovsky (Nostalghia), and Theo Angelopoulos (Voyage to Cythera), among others.
Recovering Southeast Asian Identity through the Postcolonial Archive
Northeast MLA, March 5-8 2026
This session explores how postcolonial Southeast Asian literature grapples with memory, trauma, archival recovery, and cultural identity. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging, agency, and identity. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures.
Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures
A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
(CFP: NAMLA 2026) (Un)Belonging and Becoming: (Re)generating Identity and Cultural Reinvention
This panel explores how immigrant and multiethnic writers in the U.S. (re)generate identity and cultural belonging through literature, language, and storytelling, focusing on experiences of (un)belonging, displacement, and fractured selfhood.
Call for Submissions: Mini Plays Review – “Fleeting Connections” (September 2025 Issue)
Deadline: SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
Theme: Fleeting Connections
Format: 1-Minute Plays and Monologues
Length: Maximum one page (A4 size).
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/the-mini-plays-magazine/submit
International Conference on Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media
International Conference
Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media
University College Cork, Ireland
29–30 November 2025
The International Conference “Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media” will take place on 29–30 November 2025 at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland.
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be:
Completely Nailing the Job Interview (NeMLA roundtable)
A job interview can be a terrifyingly mysterious part of the job application process. This roundtable for the 2026 NeMLA Convention, to be held March 5-8 in Pittsburgh, seeks recently hired faculty and those who have recently served on search committees to discuss their successful experiences with the job interview process, and offer tips or strategies to those currently on the market. We particularly hope for a range of perspectives from international scholars and people employed by diverse institutions in a variety of roles.
Submit proposal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21585
EXTENDED | CFP in-person conference Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture
International Conference | Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture
Universidad de Valladolid, Spain | November 24–26, 2025
Call for Papers for dialog no 45 (spring 2025)
Call for Papers
dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025
dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:
CFP : International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
*** June Issue***
Scope
Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature
Edited Collection: Teaching Twenty First Century Literature
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7/30/2025 ***
“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen
La Cátedra Extraordinaria Virginia Woolf
El Colegio de Letras Modernas
El Departamento de Letras Inglesas
Convocan al Coloquio
“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen
Upcoming deadline: CFP The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture
Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture
International Network of Nineteen-Fifties Culture (INNC) 3rd Annual Symposium
Call for Papers: The Atomic Age in 1950s Literature and Culture
Date: 19 September 2025
Location: Online
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Decamous, Kyushu University, Japan, author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (2019)
UVA Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXVIII (9/18-20)
Sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the University of Virginia’s College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies.
Film Production in the 21st Century - 16th International Small Cinemas Conference
Film Production in the 21st Century
16th International Small Cinemas Conference
October 13-15, 2025
Lodz, Poland
Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
International Seminar
Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
16 & 17 October 2025
Venue: Bodoland University, Kokrajhar
A Special Issue will be published in Bandung: Journal of the Global South (De Gruyter Brill)
Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.
My Wild Heart Bleeds: New Perspectives on Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’and its legacy’
Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating a figure who has inspired subsequent original works and reimaginings. This collection focuses on new explorations and readings of ‘Carmilla’ and its ongoing legacy, from adaptations and reimaginings to more subtle influences on the figure of the female vampire and the vampiric tradition more broadly.