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Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

updated: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 6:08am
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025


CFP for SPECIAL ISSUE

Translating Silence—Gender, Trauma, and the Untranslatable in Postcolonial Asian Literature

Journal:                      Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:                   The Australian National University
Guest-editors:             Dr. Moussa Pourya Asl & Dr. Roya Monsefi
Abstract deadline:        15 May 2025

Literary Druid - Regular Issue July 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 7:11pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute to learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

CFP PAMLA 2025-Italian and Italian American Foodways

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:47pm
PACIFIC ANCIENT & MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Please consider submitting an abstract for PAMLA 2025--Italian and Italian American Foodways.

The conference will take place in San Francisco, CA, from Nov 20-Nov 23, 2025. The extended deadline for abstracts is June 30th, 2025.

Food inside and outside of Italy has long served as a locus for the construction of identity, either in the way it can represent belonging to or exclusion from a particular group. It is also a strong evocative trigger, forcing the individual or community to remember a distant memory or to recall a painful one.

In this vein, we invite presentations exploring PAMLA's 2025 theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" as represented through food in Italian and Italian American media and literature.

I Symposium on Archipelagic Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:47pm
University of Madeira, CEComp University of Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 1st International Symposium on Archipelagic Studies ‘The Island and the Archipelagic Dimension’, to be held at the University of Madeira from the 23rd to 24th of October 2025, aims to reflect on issues of insularity and archipelagos in the conception of today's world, marked by environmental crises, new trends in human development and reinterpretations of place and its dynamics.

 

Mad Max Franchise: An Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Sarah Gawronski / University of Louisiana at Lafayette
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for papers:  Essays for an edited collection about the Mad Max franchise 

Sarah Gawronski, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

 

Name / Organization (or Independent Scholar)

Contact info: sarahmgawronski@gmail.com

 

Call for Assignments on Race and Dis/ability

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 9, 2025

Deadline extended to June 9

 


 

Overview

 

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies.


 

Full Solicitation

 

Narrativas latinoamericanas sobre el miedo, siglos XX y XXI

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Kate Koppy (NES) and Elitza Kotzeva (AUA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Call for Chapters

Teaching Writing in English at the Decolonial Turn in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

an edited collection with The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Book Series 

from The WAC Clearinghouse

Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2025

Contact:  decolonialwritingbook@gmail.com

Renaissance Ecologies – 7th Conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
University of Gothenburg
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Established in recent decades as a research area in its own right, the study of ecology in the Renaissance has diversified into several distinct but related fields. The conference aims at taking stock of the broad range of meanings, creating conversations between the existing areas and inquiring into possible directions onward. We suggest a range of both literal and more metaphorical conceptions of ‘ecology’ in which nature, broadly defined, may be considered both an object of study and an agent of change or stasis.

Veterans Studies Panel, PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

CFP PAMLA 2025--ITALIAN CINEMA STANDING SESSION

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
PACIFIC ANCIENT & MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Please consider sending an abstract for the Standing Session on Italian Cinema PAMLA 2025. The extended deadline is June 30th, 2025.

Moviegoers in Italy have long gone to the cinema to make sense of Italian history, particularly in regard to socio-political issues and questions. For the 122nd edition of the PAMLA conference, we would like to ask presenters for the “Italian Cinema” session to think about Italy’s cinema as a mode of collective history-making, but also a collective space where structured forms of forgetting also occur. We thus invite proposals related to this year’s theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” as well as those unrelated.

We have also extended the topic to include Italian American Film and TV series.

The 53rd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The 53rd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (LCLC) invites submissions of critical, creative, and hybrid work exploring 20th- and 21st-century literature and culture. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish, French, and, occasionally, other languages. We encourage group proposals that cross institutional, disciplinary, and/or experiential boundaries.

 

Indigeneity in the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:46pm
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 6, 2025

Concept Note

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture – NEPCA Online Fall Conference 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:45pm
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.

Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. 

This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Political actions that involve pop culture, including banning or attacking elements of pop culture

Special Issue: Visibilizing Intersectional Girlhood(s) in Contemporary Anglophone Cultural Manifestations

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

In recent years, girls have been progressively gaining increased visibility in popular culture. 2023 has been considered by different media outlets as “the year of the girl” (Firth 2023), which became especially noticeable on social media. Trends like girl math or girl dinner filled sites such as TikTok or Instagram where girls may find a space to express themselves and connect with other like-minded people. The release of Barbie (2023), Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (2023-2024) or more recently Charli XCX’s album brat (2024) have all interpellated girls and worked as grounds for connection through enacting girlhood.

On Speaking Obscenely: Queer and Trans Cultural Production in an Atmosphere of Censorship

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Abstract

This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

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Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:35pm
SAMLA 97 South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers: SAMLA 97 – Atlanta, GA (Nov 6–8, 2025)
Session ID: 19280
Title: Borderland Cartographies in the Global South: Postcolonial Cinema, Identity, and National Allegories
Session Type: Special
Area: Film Studies / Asian / Asian American Studies

DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY JULY 15, 2025.

 

Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

 

We have had a couple of spaces open up in our collection on trans parenting. As such, we are seeking contributors who are keen to engage critically and/or creatively with this topic and invite further chapter proposals.

SAMLA 97: Late Pynchonian Epistemologies

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:34pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 97th annual SAMLA Conference is taking place Thursday, November, 6, through Saturday, November, 8, 2025, at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  For more information, see https://southatlanticmla.org/.

A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco

Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA) Symposium 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art(PNCA), Willamette University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

 

Call for Proposals
Beyond Boundaries: Visions of Ecological Futures
2025 PNCA Symposium
October 2–4, 2025
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) at Willamette University
511 NW Broadway, Portland, Oregon

 


 

European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
European Journal of American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

European Journal of American Culture *Open Call for Papers*

 

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, peer-reviewed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of the country.

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Songs in Shakespeare: proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Nicholas Bellinson, St. John's College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Songs in ShakespeareProposing a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains for July 2027 We are seeking abstracts to include in our proposal for a special issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on the topic of songs in Shakespeare. If the proposal is accepted, the issue will be published in print in July 2027. Proposals on any aspect of songs in Shakespeare will be considered, but we are particularly interested in the dramatic questions, “What can songs do in Shakespeare?” and “What can singing mean to characters in Shakespeare?”. Topics might include analysis of the songs in one play or across various plays; songs and sonnets; meter and music; birdsong; singers’ voice changes; non-English songs; missing songs; performance history.

“One cannot have too large a party”: a 250 años del nacimiento de Jane Austen

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:33pm
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 23, 2025

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

 

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