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Medieval and Early Modern Orients: New Encounters

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 8:11am
Medieval and Early Modern Orients
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The decolonial, digital project Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) is delighted to announce its first hybrid conference to be held from the 11th - 14th of December 2025, in person in Cape Town, South Africa, and online. 

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech University)
Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College)

 

Colloque international : Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 2, 2025

La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un

Colloque international :

Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

Les 22 et 23 mai 2025

 

ARGUMENTAIRE

PAMLA 2025 Special Session CFP

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:56am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

James on James (MLA)

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 7, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Henry James Society

Modern Language Association Convention

Toronto

8-11 January 2026

 

The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel. 

 

James on James

 

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 22, 2025

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

 

Deadline: May 22, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

 

30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 4, 2025

30 Years of Saturn: 2nd Annual W. G. Sebald Symposium 

 

Deadline: April 4, 2025

Symposium Date: May 11, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

 

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Theme

Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Dates

Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference On Quantum Software 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 24, 2025

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Call for Papers: IEEE QSW 2025
2025 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM SOFTWARE (QSW 2025)
PART OF THE 2025 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2025)

When and Where: July 7-12, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://services.conferences.computer.org/2025/qsw/
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ABOUT IEEE QSW 2025 AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:55am
Spelman College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

 

The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two

currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer

2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and

expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.

About the Spelman Archives:

 

The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make

available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

updated: 
Monday, February 3, 2025 - 2:53am
Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Edited Collection: Haunted by Hydrocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination

 

Deadline for proposal submission: August 31, 2025

 

Editors: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon), Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)

 

Contact Email: mmadigar@uoregon.edu, jschell5@alaska.edu

 

For this edited collection, we invite proposals for essays that focus on and engage with petrogothic and petrohorror, emerging fields that examine the textual artifacts of hydrocarbon cultures through the lens of gothic and horror studies.

 

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 7:36pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 7:36pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of July 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 7:36pm
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

(Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:57pm
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Un)welcome Imaginaries: (Non-)Fiction Literature on Fundamental Rights

 

International Interdisciplinary Conference (online)

 

12-13th December 2025

 

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)

 

Call for papers

Racial Capitalism and its Discontents: Theory, History-Writing, and Periodization in Late-Stage Empire | American Studies Association (ASA)| November 20-23, 2025 | San Juan, Puerto Rico

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 4:22pm
Eric Cheuk / University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

From its origins in South African debates about the direction of the anti-apartheid movement, to its reinvention by Cedric Robinson as a theory of race and capital’s world-historical enmeshment, to its contemporary status as a master signifier for left-antiracist critique, racial capitalism is here to stay. Across fields and theories, archives and methods, it circulates as the authorizing ballast for any number of arguments: that capitalism differentiates rather than homogenizes; that anticapitalist politics must proceed from the existential grounding wire of alternative cosmologies; that race names the persistence of feudal social relations in the conceptual, libidinal, and political infrastructures of global modernity.

CFP: "Approaching Dystopia" Interdisciplinary Conference FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 1:50pm
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Graduate Students in English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025

“Approaching Dystopia”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:43am
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting 

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO 

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025 

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)  

 

Modern Language Review

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:13am
Modern Humanities Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature. 

Contributions can take two forms:

Marlowe X Theory - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Sunday, February 2, 2025 - 3:12am
Northumbria University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

FINAL CALL: Joy to You and Me: Making Space for Joy in the Writing Classroom

updated: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 11:58am
Committee for the Conference on the Teaching of Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th, 2025. Proposal submissions are due on Saturday, February 1st, 2025, and can be submitted through this form.

Call for Proposals: Cosmopolitan Korean Wave Edited Collection

updated: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 1:19am
Prof. Hazel T. Biana (De La Salle University), Prof. Molly D. Boyd (University of Arkansas) and Prof. Joon Ho Hwang (Ewha Womans University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave

Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 8:42pm
Anna Maria Cimitile / University of Naples 'L'Orientale'
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

 Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:

1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.

2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.

CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 6:10pm
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:23pm
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

MSA 2025 Boston: CFP Modernist Mind Science

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Modernist Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”

 

Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.

 

Refugee Crises in Literature, Film and Mass Media: Balancing Humanitarian Obligation with Ethical Standards

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:16pm
Department of English, University of Calgary Graduate Students’ Free Exchange Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

The formation of the United Nations in 1945 was intended to forestall global wars and inaugurate global peace. Despite its efforts and those of other international and regional organizations, wars have persisted in the 21st century. For instance, in Africa, countries are engulfed in the vortex of armed conflicts from the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to the farmers-herders conflict in Nigeria and the Somali government/Al-Shabab Islamist militant group conflict. This violence is echoed in the post-election tensions between the military and insurgents (Allied Democratic Forces) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just like the post-Tigray War conflicts in Ethiopia.

'Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing' 26-27 June, Conf. CfP

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
'Practicing Place'/KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing

26th - 27th June 2025 

In the context of new political confrontations, ecological challenges, and heightened social polarizations, conflicts in practices of place are intensifying. Encounters with place across the humanities and social sciences often focus on matters of identification and delineation: that is, on making and doing place. Yet, every emplacement entails displacement. Understanding places as configurations of conflict raises questions on the entanglements of (un)doing that this conference seeks to centre, by exploring de-stabilisation, dis-location, and de-identification as practicing place. 

International Conference on "DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES"

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 12:15pm
SRM University Andhra Pradesh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 10, 2025

                                                    A Two-Day International Conference on

                                  DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES

                                                                   March 20-21,2025

                                      Organised by SRM University,Andhra Pradesh, India

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