Call for Papers

“War & Culture”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 26-28, 2025

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.

We invite papers that explore aspects of Young/Adult literature and/or culture, broadly construed. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related. Paper proposals that engage the following questions are welcome: How have notions of age and development impacted and/or been encoded in literary and cultural materials, including media? How has the story of "young adult" or "adolescent" literature been written over, rewritten, or written out, and with what occlusions?

CFP:

Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating and rich transformations resulting from these crisscrossings.

This conference aims to bring together Postgraduate students and Research Scholars to critically engage with the theme of “Popular Culture and the Politics of Representation.” Culture has always been the force to determine the course of human history, which has been sempiternally constituted by multitudinous and multidirectional fluxes of cultural exchanges, overlaps, and influences of various degrees. The aforementioned dynamics had not only been operative at collective levels but also at individual ones, ceaselessly permeating and turning us into its impacts and mouldings.

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.

Call for Papers:  

Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:

Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance

Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany

4th – 6th of June, 2025

When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)

Important Deadlines

               Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words)                 :               April 12, 2025

               Full Chapter Submission                                                                 :               June 15, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Patterson Prize 2025 (English submission)
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 36, no. 2

The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre.

Modernist literature emerges at the intersection of industrialization and the rapid expansion of fossil fuels—railways, power grids, and oil pipelines—that define the modern city while also exposing its vulnerabilities. This panel explores how modernist works engage with the materiality and aesthetics of infrastructure to critique the systems that sustain modern life and the forms in which modern life is communicated.

This session invites abstracts for papers that engage meaningfully with Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy. This session seeks to bring together a wide variety of approaches to and thematic interests in the novel. Papers might explore questions as diverse as possession/haunting, coloniality, race, the archive, gender, or theories of reading.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio through the Google form below:

 https://forms.gle/kzYew6K7XLPEpiG6A