CfP: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Call for Papers: Symposium at Utrecht University, 10 April 2026
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Call for Papers: Symposium at Utrecht University, 10 April 2026
Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Concept Note
Mediterranean Crossings: A Studia Mediterranea Conference
Location: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Split, Croatia
Dates: September 19-20, 2025
Abstract submission date: June 25, 2025
Keynote speaker (virtual): Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois at Chicago)
*note: this is a hybrid conference, but there will be no recording and the conference is only open to registered participants
This seminar uses fiction across media to host a dialogue between critical space theory and contemporary frameworks of political relationality. We look for the crossroads of intersectional politics, the empty lots where to construct "a people," the putrid, fertile soils of post-human entanglements. Demolishers against all future: you are also welcome.
We produce the space of sociality, and, in return, space shapes social reproduction (Henri Lefebvre). This dialectic is traversed by the blueprint of form as "the precondition of possible space" (Anna Kornbluh). Narrative fiction -literary, filmic, graphic- objectifies those forms and configures new ones, reworking the very entanglement of space and society.
Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom (Hybrid)
Deadline for abstracts: June 30th (up to 250 words)
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/9zENxMYi9i1Wotu67
Free and open to the public
CFP: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture – NEPCA Virtual Fall Conference 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025 5pm EST
Contact email:
Hannah Sophie Schiffner, h.schiffner@zeppelin-university.net
Protichi Chatterjee, protichichatterjee@gmail.com.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 9 – 11, 2025.
IATIS Yearbook 2025
Type: Edited volume from Routledge UK (contract signed)
Title:
Exploring ‘Geo’ in Translation:
Redefining Territoriality of Translational Landscape in South Asia
1. Rationale:
Book Proposal for the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Type: Edited volume
Title (provisional)
Craft Culture of Odisha:
A Study of Handicraft Heritage and Changing Dynamics of Craft-making
Rationale:
First Anglistics International
Conference on Continuing Education
in Philological and Related Studies in
the English Language (ONLINE)
September 25-26, 2025
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025
The First International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological
and Related Studies in the English Language invites academics, researchers,
educators, and postgraduate students to come together to explore English
philology in all its dimensions. This event will be held entirely online and aims
to foster dialogue and intellectual exchange on the dynamic linguistic,
literary, and cultural landscapes of the English language. The conference,
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (T&F)
Special issue on
Gendered Violence
Guest Editors: Debajyoti Biswas (Bodoland University) & Parvin Sultana (Pramathesh Barua College)
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (In-Person)
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Annual Conference
Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia (1800 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19103)
6-8 November 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for an in-person 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 Annual Conference, which will run from Thursday, 6 November, to Saturday, 8 November 2025.
Second Call For Papers
CFP: Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle
2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries
Location: Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan
15-18 October, 2025
Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025
Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca
Conference Details
CALL FOR PAPERS
Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
17-19 September 2025
Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova
(Via Vendramini, 13, Padova, Italy)
Update: Keynote Speakers Announced - See details here:
https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/reconfigurations-2025...
CFP:
SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:
1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age
PAMLA 2025 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory” (Standing Session)
San Francisco, CA, Nov. 20-23
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Email: leack@usc.edu
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
Description
In these turbulent times of global conflict and wars, and with the world witnessing human rights violations, scholars and individuals alike are grappling with the evolving definitions of fundamental issues such as human rights, international law, justice, and community peaceful coexistence. The crises challenge long-held assumptions on the so- called post-colonialist discourses, neocolonialism, systemic oppression, and cultural conflict, especially in transnational and diasporic encounters. Images of destruction and the continuous lurking waves of international sociopolitical plights inflicting the world raise urgent ethical questions that call upon the humanities to critically engage with these contemporary struggles of the human experience.
This accepted PAMLA special session panel explores memory and oblivion as they relate to queer culture and literature of the modern Hispanic world. Focusing on Latin America, Spain, and the global Hispanophone in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, the panel explores practices of remembrance, commemoration, censorship, and forgetting both in queer culture (i.e., as practiced by queer individuals and groups) and of queer culture (in a broader cultural ecosystem). How have queer people sought to memorialize their predecessors and bequeath their legacy to future generations? How have these practices interacted with more expansive societal forces that alternately commemorate, silence or marginalize queer culture?
Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo is considered a staple in American cinematic history. For decades, Vertigo has been the subject of study by many film scholars, peeling back the intricate layers of the technicolor thriller. This panel invites all papers on Vertigo whether it is about the film's placement in Hitchcock's auteurism, the film's relation to the city of San Francisco, or an entirely new layer that has yet to be fully discussed.
Sir Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes are associated with the phrase, “Knowledge is power,” articulated by both writers about four centuries ago.
This roundtable serves as a direct continuation of "Navigating Graduate School," from last year's PAMLA conference in Palm Springs. One of the most mystifying parts of graduate school that can seem intimidating to a prospective student is what happens after your qualifying exams. You're done with coursework. You've gone through your qualifying exams. You are now considered 'All-But-Dissertation,' or ABD. What happens? While graduate handbooks will helpfully detail requirements for dissertations, prospectus meetings, etc., the experience of navigating the terrain between qualifying exams and the job market can feel abstract.
International Conference on Food Studies:
"Culinary Evolutions"
London/Online: 9-10 August 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2025
Conference website: https://food.lcir.co.uk
Food is a basic foundation of culture and society, it is vital to our health and well-being and it plays a significant role in our everyday creative engagement with nature. The shifts in activities surrounding food acquisition, preparation and consumption are not only essential for learning a culinary tradition but for examining a broader societal change.
In their introduction to Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016), Karen Coats and Lisa Rowe Fraustino observe that “[w]hether living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or happily good enough, the figure of the mother carries an enormous amount of freight across the emotional and intellectual life of a child” (3).
Two-day Early Career Researchers’ Conclave & Colloquium 2025
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
Department of Higher Education, Goverment of West Bengal
Academic partner - British Council
South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations
0n 23rd and 24th June, 2025
Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London
Justin Jones, University of Oxford
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, 3–5, October 2025
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Conference participants will be responsible for securing their own lodging.
Submit paper, abstract, or panel proposals (including the title of the presentation) with the appropriate keywords (formerly areas) on the submissions website at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels
Individuals may only submit one paper.
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 4-5, 2025
July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/
Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.
NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".
This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in October 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.