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Speical issue of Tropos on Mimetic Studies. New Steps for the Mimetic TUrn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 2:54am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu). 

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture: Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

Coaching, Kindness, and Culture:
Psychology, Sports, the Arts, Leadership…& Ted Lasso
A Transdisciplinary conference

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/07/09/coaching-kindness-and-culture/

Date: November 15-16, 2025
November 15: In person participation in Richmond, London (and online)
November 16:  Fully online
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025

 

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:30pm
Benoît Loiseau (NYU)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Psychoanalysis in Transition: New Queer Approaches in 21st-Century France2026 NeMLA ConventionMarch 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Since the 1970s, LGBTQ+ Francophone authors and scholars have produced an expansive critique of psychoanalytic practices and thought. Despite their differing views, Guy Hocquenghem, Michel Foucault, Monique Wittig, Didier Eribon, Sam Bourcier, and Paul B.

"Freedom and Authenticity" 7th International Interdiciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:29pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Conference online (via Zoom): 11-12 August 2025

 

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Professor Ryan Habermeyer -  Salisbury University, USA

CFP: 

(Re)Generating the Digital Humanity Through Human–AI Collaboration

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:21pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 30, 2025

In light of this year’s conference theme of regeneration—with its emphasis on engagement, collaboration, and the creation of powerful new entities—this roundtable explores how the humanities might regenerate through human–AI collaboration. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into writing studies and classroom practices, human–AI teaming models (Gupta & Shivers-McNair; McKee & Porter; Knowles & Pedersen; Beddington et al.) have shown potential for positive outcomes in writing pedagogy. At the same time, they raise critical questions about voice (Tan et al.; Grey), the complexity of teacher labor (Ghafouri et al.), and agency issue (Yang), prompting us to reflect on what it truly means to co-generate/create with a machine.

Critical Intersex Futures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:20pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

This hybrid panel will consider interdisciplinary work in the slowly expanding field of critical intersex studies.

Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:19pm
Routledge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In recent years, publishers and children’s book professionals have registered a new enthusiasm for comic and graphic narrative forms. Graphic narratives as children’s literature offer an exciting new type of text for children and youth, providing important insights into the interests and capabilities of these youngsters as readers and as potential agents of change. Curiously, children’s literature criticism has tended to ignore or, at best, marginalize comics and graphic narratives for young people. This “blind spot” in children’s literature and comics criticism, as Charles Hatfield has called it on a number of occasions, is now being addressed.

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

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:07pm
Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

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

 

NEW Deadline: July 25, 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

 

Rethinking the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia, and Dismantling Power Structures

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:50am
Ruma Sinha/Rider University and Billie Thoidingjam Guarino/Saint Anselm College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

A few days before the Independence Day of India in 2023, the Special Police Unit for North-Eastern Region (SPUNER) under the Delhi police circulated a Google form to collect information on “North-Eastern People, Ladakhis & Gorkhas of Darjeeling residing in Delhi” for “better policing Safety & Security.” This incident raises serious concerns due to its discriminatory nature against these marginalized communities and poses security risks involved with the storage and ethical use of such data. This aspect of collecting information becomes even more pertinent during critical moments such as elections or the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 10:28am
Bloomsbury Academic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Bloomsbury Academic, is seeking proposals for books that re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology

updated: 
Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:10am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 14, 2025

International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology 

  ISSN: 0975-3826(online); 0975-4660 (Print)

https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

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NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 CFP for ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION

updated: 
Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 4:01pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Deadline Extended NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 9 to October 11, 2025 AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION Deadline: Tuesday, July 31st by 5pm EST

 Contact email: Wendy Wagner wwagner@jwu.edu

 The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2025 annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Extended 2025: "Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously."

updated: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 12:06pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

"Teaching Texts Remotely: Challenges and Strategies for Teaching Asynchronously"

 

This roundtable encourages classroom narratives of successful moments teaching texts in a virtual learning management system (LMS) space. Considerations for using open educational resources (OER), novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels, readers, articles, films, or other texts are welcome. Classes can be composition- or literature-based and presentations may focus on the strategy, challenge, or the selection of texts.

Teaching Kate Chopin

updated: 
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 7:48am
Heather Ostman & Quinn Moyer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Kate Chopin in the Classroom

 

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

 

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (English or Spanish, with focus on the Spanish-speaking world): Polifonía Scholarly Journal

updated: 
Friday, July 11, 2025 - 7:22am
Polifonía Scholarly Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

Convocatoria POLIFONIA, Revista de estudios hispánicos Volumen XV, Año 2025Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine (el mundo hispanohablante)

El consejo editorial de Polifonía se complace en hacer pública su nueva convocatoria para su decimoquinto volumen, “Representaciones de la resistencia en la literatura y el cine,” que se publicará de forma electrónica e impresa en el 2025.

Este volumen consta de dos partes: la primera aborda la resistencia en la literatura y el cine en el mundo hispanohablante (ver abajo), mientras la segunda es de tema misceláneo - es decir, abierto. 

Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive: Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies

updated: 
Friday, July 11, 2025 - 12:51am
The 57th Annual Convention for Northeast Modern Language Association/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

 

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

NeMLA 2026: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual)

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:30pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2026

Conference Date: March 5-8, 2026

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

All presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in person. We will use Whova (our conference app) and Zoom to integrate remote sessions into the conference.



 

Session Title: World Literature and Cultural Globalization (Roundtable/Virtual).

 

“The era of world literature is at hand, and everyone must contribute to accelerating it,” Goethe said to Eckermann on the afternoon of 1827, and the idea of world literature (Weltliteratur) was born.

SAMLA 2025-- "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination" (In-person)

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:27pm
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 2025. 

SAMLA97, KNOWLEDGE: CALL FOR PAPERS (In-person), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Conference Date: November 6-8, 2025

Special Session/Panel on "Breath, Borders, and Belonging: Pandemic Literature and the Postcolonial Imagination"


 

Archival and Bibliographical Studies in American Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 11:05am
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Resources for American Literary Study, a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2026 issues. Covering all periods and genres of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. Founded in 1971, RALS remains the only major scholarly periodical of its kind. Each issue includes, in addition to archival and bibliographical research, related book reviews and a unique “Prospects” essay that identifies new directions in the study of major authors. Our editorial board consists of leading scholars from an array of fields and subfields in American literary study.

Call for paper: Research in Contemporary World Literature

updated: 
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 8:28am
Dr. Ali Salami, University of Tehran
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Research in Contemporary World Literature (RCWL) invites submissions for upcoming issues. As a leading international journal committed to cutting-edge scholarship published by the University of Tehran, RCWL publishes double-blind, peer-reviewed research on modern and contemporary literary production across global contexts, with a primary focus on literature emerging after 1945.

Originally founded in 1994 as Journal of Foreign Languages and reconstituted in its current form, RCWL has evolved into a vital platform for the exploration of literary texts, movements, and theories that traverse cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.

Call for paper : International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 9:47am
USA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

                                                                                                                                                   https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N

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