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PAMLA 2025: Navigating Graduate School: You're ABD, Now What? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 1:52pm
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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"

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:51pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

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.

Mothers, Motherhood, and Mothering in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 10:29am
University of Münster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

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).

South Asia Research at the Crossroads: Current World Order, New Horizons and Theorisations

updated: 
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 12:52am
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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

  • Keynotes

Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London

Justin Jones, University of Oxford

(CFP: PAMLA 2025) Haunted Belonging: Memory, Erasure, and Identity in Diasporic Literatures

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:53pm
Wenyuan Wang / / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

This session explores how postcolonial and diasporic literatures grapple with memory, trauma, and cultural haunting. Rather than thinking of identity as fixed or linear, selfhood is complex and palimpsestic due to colonial violence, migration, and historical erasure. This session invites papers that analyze how characters or narratives navigate misremembering, inherited trauma, or overwritten histories to reclaim belonging and agency. Topics may include narrative voice, transgenerational memory, silence, storytelling, and archival gaps in multiethnic and immigrant literatures. This session welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and encourages work on Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and other diasporic communities.

PAMLA 2025 Panel (standing session): Gothic

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 11:14am
Melanie A. Marotta, College of William & Mary / Pacific & Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2025 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** 2025 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:51am
Cory Barker, MPCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

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.

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 10:38am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

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

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 6:30am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 2, 2025

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)

 

 

Call for Book Chapters - Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 28, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Spiced Histories: Cartographing Food, Culture, and Conflict in South Asia

Food is never just about sustenance. It is a charged cultural text, a site of memory and mourning, a marker of identity, a terrain of negotiation, and often, a weapon of exclusion or resistance. In South Asia—a region defined by deep pluralities, histories of colonialism, persistent socio-economic inequalities, and enduring spiritual traditions—food emerges not merely as a necessity, but as a powerful index of social structure, affective life, and ideological formation.

Call for Chapters - Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 2:30am
Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

The narrative of women in Indian print culture reflects a dynamic interplay of struggle and achievement, where, despite significant contributions, women's voices were frequently marginalized, and societal expectations and institutional barriers often constrained their roles. This complex history underscores the ongoing need for a more inclusive historical narrative that fully acknowledges the diverse and critical roles women have played
in shaping print culture in India.

ReFocus: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 12:28am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 11:07pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

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.

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:10pm
IATIS / Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

IATIS 8th International Conference: Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation, and (Re)Creation

الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

10 – 13 December 2025

Panel 16: Towards a Sustainable Translation Curriculum: Integrating the SDGs into Translation Education

Food Studies Panel at PAMLA 2025

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 1:04pm
Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Conference Dates - November 20th to 23rd 2025

Location - San Francisco, California - The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel - U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Call for Papers for Vol 4 of IJLS

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:21pm
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Politics and Leadership, Leadership Studies and Politics

Politics and leadership: two subjects that are commonly known, yet also deeply misunderstood. Politics is not merely the activities of official decision-makers and the ideas (and people) that give rise to them, but also, more broadly, how human groups determine who gets what (and under what circumstances—by consent or coercion). What if leadership is not entirely a person or position? Perhaps, leadership is a negotiation— a complex moral relationship between people that is predicated on role agreement. We might say, then, that leadership is a dynamic process that cannot be separated from the politics of human groups. Leadership, in this way, is very fundamentally political.

Thomas Nashe and Voice

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 7:42am
St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

CFP: Thomas Nashe and Voice

St John’s College, Cambridge and Faculty of English, Cambridge

January 9-January 10, 2026

Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:53am
Dr.Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorao (VIT-Chennai), Dr.Minu Susan Koshy (Mar Thoma College for Women, Kerala), Mr.Rajkumar (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Original, unpublished research papers are invited for an edited volume titled Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South, scheduled to be published in 2025.

 

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 5, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Film Studies: Research Articles focusing on Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and India's Northeast

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 4:20am
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 12 – LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 3:08am
Department of English Language and Literature; Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE 15 JUNE 2025

Conference dates: 16-18 October 2025
Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Conference website: https://consid.conference.ubbcluj.ro 

LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION

CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY 12 - CREATING AND RESOLVING CONFLICT IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 3:08am
Department of English Language and Literature, Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2025

 

Conference dates: 16-18 October 2025
Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca
Conference website: https://consid.conference.ubbcluj.ro

CREATING AND RESOLVING CONFLICT IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES

 

REMINDER: One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

updated: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:56am
Noah Gallego and Layal Dahi
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

One Short Day: An Online Symposium Celebrating Wicked

 

Deadline: May 30, 2025

Conference Date: June 27, 2025

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific Time)

Abstract: 150 words + 50 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Organizers: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona & Layal Dahi, California State Polytechnic University 

 

Special Issue on "Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene: Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 6:34pm
Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene: Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 23, 2025

 

Call for Papers:  

Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:

Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance

 

Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan

Publisher: TRACE Journal for Human-Animal Studies

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Panels and Papers: "Sports, Recreation, Leisure, and All Manners of Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 3:31pm
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Pinehurst, NC - February 19-21, 2026

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCSECS) looks forward to welcoming all to its 2026 meeting in Pinehurst, which is slated for February 19-21, 2026.  The incomparable 2026 SCSECS meeting will present a fabulous opportunity to engage in lively intellectual conversation centered on 18th-century topics while luxuriating in all the amenities of a vibrant resort, set in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Warren Manning. Pinehurst offers a spa, history, golf, shopping, landscape, birding, croquet, watering holes, and more! You will not want to miss out on this opportunity.

NYCEA-PCEA 2025 – Conference on "Texts at Work: Labor in the Liberal Arts"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 9:31am
New York College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Texts at Work

Labor in the Liberal Arts

 

The New York College English Association and

The Pennsylvania College English Association

October 3-4, 2025

SUNY Alfred State

 

Keynote presentation: Dr. Rose Zaloom, Content Writer, Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

 

Call for Papers

 

Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:40am
Shakespeare's Globe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been­—and continue to be—recorded, erased or obscured.

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning – Call for Chapters

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:32am
Chris Wei / The University of Houston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Routledge Handbook of AI and World Language Learning – call for chapters

Editors: Weixiao Wei 

The Routledge Handbook of AI and World Language Learning will explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence in language education, offering a critical and comprehensive analysis of how AI is expected to reshape the ways languages are taught, learned, and assessed.

Preliminarily divided into six thematic sections, the handbook will bridge theory, research, and practice to establish AI-driven language learning as a rigorous academic field. It is intended to serve as a vital resource for researchers, educators, ed-tech developers, policymakers, and postgraduate students.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation - Call for Chapters

updated: 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 7:31am
Chris Wei / The University of Houston
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027)

Editors: Weixiao Wei and Zhaoming Gao 

We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome contributions that explore how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the theory and practice of Chinese translation across various domains.

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