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

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.

Dr Conner McAleese invites proposals on representations of motherhood in any of Stephen King’s fiction.

Over the past fifty years, King’s works have been adapted, discussed, academically investigated, and, of course, read to an extent that few authors have ever been before. However, one aspect of King’s writing has yet to be given scholastic attention – the mothers of Stephen King’s fiction.

 Call For Proposals AMERICAN NIGHTMARES II: RETURN TO SALEMTHE BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC March 19th – 21st, 2026Salem, Massachusetts Keynote Speaker: Victor LavalleKeynote Speaker: Siân Silyn Roberts Conference co-director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityConference co-director: Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska FairbanksWith the kind support of the American Literature Association  Please join the Society for the Study of the American Gothic for our second biennial symposium!

The word apocalypse contains a paradox. In common usage, it means, “a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm” (OED); but the word’s roots come from the ancient Greek for “unveiling." 

                  Apocalypse contains both end and beginning, annihilation and exaltation. The apocalyptic promises death and destruction, yes, but also, knowledge and transformation.  The apocalypse is above all a threshold. Thus, as an object of inquiry, apocalypse calls for the examination of perspective and perception, as much as of semiotics and the historical. 

This panel invites scholarship that explores how sound—broadly understood as an aesthetic, material, and theoretical force—functions within and shapes literature, music, performance, and visual media to riff on history and modulate experience. We seek contributions that investigate how sound operates both as a method and a site of creative invention—where dominant narratives are unsettled and histories that resist closure come into audible presence. Sonic form becomes a space where the unfinished, the fugitive, and the refused emerge through rhythm, echo, distortion, repetition, and resonance.

Conference Call for Papers

Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025

Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University

#Kingston2025

October 28th and 29th 2025

Call For Papers

Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, September 11th and 12th September, 2025

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

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

“[Minor poets are poets] who may have a strong personal appeal to certain readers. . . This poet may not be very important, you should say defiantly, but his work is good for me.” –T. S. Eliot

Birthing Stories:  Silence, Trauma, and The Power of Narratives in Clinical Care

                                                                              Devaleena Das and Jessica Gildersleeve

when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive.— Audre Lorde

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers—strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.— Barbara Katz Rothman

Appel à communications/Call for papers

Climas (EA 4196) 

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

26-27 février 2026 / February 26-27, 2026

La révision/Revision

Organisateurs/organizers : 

Véronique Béghain, Hannah Champion, Juliette Pochelu, Joël Richard 

(with the collaboration of Guillaume Desagulier)

“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea”

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Erlangen (Germany),

19th-20th February 2026

Call for Papers

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Submission Form

CFP (edited volume): 13 Exigencies for Teaching the Essay