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The Sixteenth IASEMS Conference
Tuscia University (Viterbo), 29-30 September 2025 Convenors: Alba Graziano and the IASEMS Executive Board
The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference
University of Salento (Lecce), 16-17 May 2025
Convenors: Maria Luisa De Rinaldis, Maria Renata Dolce and the IASEMS Executive Board
The Fifteenth IASEMS Conference in Lecce, University of Salento, 16-17 May 2025, will investigate the imaginary of waters in Shakespeare and early modern texts, aiming at the exploration of notions of fluidity and crossing. The conference wishes to investigate what meanings, both personal and collective, circulated around ‘water’ in early modern culture, but also to discuss the water-related relevance and value of the ideas of shapelessness and transformation, mutability and sea change as opposed to fixity, solidity, and normativity.
The issue’s topic revolves around Education and will challenge our anthropogenic philosophies.
It will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy, to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.
All of this can be answered with fictional stories, philosophical papers, poems or personal essays.
The Anthropocene has a deficit of philosophy that looks at the world from a different point of view, instead of the one prescribed, centralised, accepted narrative.
Call For Papers - CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS
Landscapes Of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters
Anda International Conference
Università del Salento, Lecce – Italy
25-26 September 2025
Landscapes of the Mind: Narratives of Cultural Encounters explores how different cultures perceive, interpret, and narrate their experiences and interactions. Possible topics related to the conference include:
Our third annual conference on May 2-3 via Zoom! This online conference is free to attend. Please use this link to register to present or attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSiuxTNYFJPUPxF1gAdfH1pQthfjig...
Submissions may cover any aspect of literature, film, or art related to science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (approximately 1789 to 1918). Also welcome are presentations on tv, film, and video game adaptations of nineteenth-century texts, or on works that re-envision the nineteenth century through science fiction or fantasy. Submissions to present are due by March 28.
CFP: Dracula: A Companion
Matthew Crofts & Maddy Potter
Dracula: A Companion is intended to both be an essential guide to interpreting Bram Stoker’s Dracula and a collection of new perspectives supporting a reshaping of the way the text is taught and engaged with by students.
Are Greek myths, as Charlotte Higgins argued for The Guardian in 2021, ‘relevant for all time’? This question relates to the widespread influence of ancient Greek myth in contemporary culture, especially in areas such as literature. The classical stories of Homer and Sophocles, amongst others, are frequently being revised to offer a modern entry point to ancient myth. In recent years, publishing has seen a sharp rise in re-imaginings of Greek myth, and works by Pat Barker, Margaret Atwood, Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes, Jennifer Saint, Bea Fitzgerald, and Jessie Burton, have all appeared on bestseller lists.
We are looking for submissions to a symposium as part of the 2025 Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature Conference "Redes, Margens et Rios," held June 23-28 in Manaus, Brazil. The symposium format is designed to allow for a several day working period over the course of the conference's days (depending on number of submissions). We are looking for 250 words abstracts for 20 minute presentations on the below topic. We expect to combine presentations, working periods, and discussion elements over the course of two to three days.
Call for Contributions: Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
In Focus section on: 'Art and film interrelations on Nordic Screens'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers
Call For Papers
Special issue: Faravid – Journal for Historical and Archaeological Studies
Publication date: Spring 2026
Guest editors: Moussa Pourya Asl, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, and Johanna Leinonen
Language: Finnish, English, German or Swedish
Migration Histories to Finland: Global Movements, Local Impacts
We are very pleased to announce that the 2025 Australia and New Zealand Shakespeare Association Conference will take place in person from Wednesday, 2 July to Friday, 4 July, hosted by the University of Queensland in its Queen Street campus in the Brisbane CBD (https://about.uq.edu.au/campuses-facilities/brisbane-city), conveniently located close to local hotels, cafes, and restaurants.
Keynote speakers will be Dennis Britton of the University of British Columbia, and Brandon Chua of the University of Hong Kong.
Indie Lens Pop-Up, WBGU-PBS, the Popular Culture Program, and the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference to be held on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2025. The Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference will serve as a celebration and screening of the Independent Lens film We Want the Funk.
Reinventing the Western Literary Canon
Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2024
A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation.
This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections,titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?
Call For PapersWe are pleased to invite experts, students, and researchers interested in blockchain and crypto assets to the First International deBlock Conference, which will take place in Tehran in May 2025.
2025 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
September 25-27, 2025
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
Keynote Speaker: TBA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Maps in American Literature, 15th-21st c.
International symposium
April 1-3, 2026
ENS de Lyon, France
Organized by Aurore Clavier (Université Paris Cité), Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg, USIAS), Julien Nègre (ENS de Lyon, IUF) and Pauline Pilote (Université Bretagne Sud).
Keynote speaker: Martin Brückner, Professor at the University of Delaware and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC).
Call for Book Chapters under Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature (Scopus Indexed Book Series)
Title of the Book: In Musico-literary Contexts: Signs, Sounds, and Stories
Publisher: Brill
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15/03/2025
Notification of Acceptance: 30/03/2025
Submission of Full Paper: 30/11/2025
Submission of Revised Papers: 20/12/2025
Editor: Barnashree Khasnobis
Contact Email: barnashree.kh@gmail.com
(What’s the story) Reunion glory?
Assessing Oasis’s legacy as Morning Glory turns 30.
Université Rennes 2 (France), 27 November 2025
Organisation committee: Aurore Caignet, Guillaume Clément, David Haigron
It is estimated that nearly 14 million people tried to get tickets for this year’s Oasis’s UK tour following the announcement of their reunion in 2024. This staggering figure echoes the band’s one-off concert at Knebworth in 1996, when 4% of the British population had applied for tickets. Such statistics confirm Oasis’s special status within British popular culture and the band’s ability to allow people to come together.
Open Panel #171: "Desperate Media"
When all else fails, we are left with desperation: extravagant recklessness, scrappy desire, a call to create new worlds through inventive forms, even as temperatures rise.
Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World
Conference, University of Bucharest, October 3-4, 2025 (hybrid)
CFP deadline: February 28, 2025
The editors invite proposals for book chapters for a planned edited collection on teaching Parable of the Sower.
Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.
Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session)
MLA Call for Papers #29768
Description & Requirements:
Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative narratives anticipated, shaped, and reflected current developments in AI or imagined AIs that diverge from present realities? 250-word abstract, short cv
Submit proposals to: Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)
Description
We live in a world where interfaces play an increasingly central role. Interfaces are our means of engaging with both technical and social realities; gradually, they become not only conditions of access to the world of technology but also intrinsic structures of our experience. The interfaces designed by major corporations, game developers, and social application creators set standards of perception and self-awareness, disciplining us and determining the measure of control. This makes it all the more crucial to continue experimenting with interfaces, developing a new semiotic, symbolic, and bodily grammar—a challenge embraced by digital artists, gamers, science fiction writers, and neuromancers of media reality.
MLA Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). Both John Ruskin and William Morris decried the evil effects of industrial blight on the environment, citing the impossibility of authentic art in the context of poverty and pollution. We seek papers that treat all aspects of this topic as reflected in literature, art, and social theory: broadened definitions of art, late-Victorian and modernist responses to urban industrialism, art for the masses, eco-socialism, utopian otherworlds, and the rise of urban design. Contributions on Canadian-related and contemporary material are also welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.
For MLA in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026), we welcome contributions on Morris, his associates, and their influence in relation to material culture: the Arts and Crafts movement, the portrayal of objects and environments in literature, and the meanings ascribed to “things.” In addition to seeking new approaches to the work of Morris and his circle in the book arts, stained glass, textiles, architecture, and landscape design, we seek reevaluations of materiality and concrete symbolism within Pre-Raphaelite writings more broadly as reflective of beliefs about identity, permanence, and change. Contributions on Morrisian and Arts and Crafts-related Canadian material culture are especially welcome. Please send abstracts and a brief c. v.
The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland (HI UWr), Depot History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the eighth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 9-13 June 2025.
The edited volume aims to explore the portrayal of contemporary women’s issues as depicted in Indian regional literature. The focus of the volume is to explore how cultural, social, economic, and political issues affecting women are reflected and represented across various Indian languages and regions. This book seeks to bridge the gap between literary studies and gender discourse, emphasizing how literature acts as a mirror to societal transformations and the challenges women face today. The volume will cover diverse genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiographies, while also addressing regional variations in themes and representations.
The thematic objectives of this edited volume are as follows: