CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE ‘MUSIC, MEDIA AND GLOBAL MESSAGES’,  YORK, 9-10 JUNE 2025  York St John University and the 

“Youth is, so to speak, modernity's ‘essence’, the sign of a world that seeks its meaning in the future rather than in the past”, says Franco Moretti as he dissects the genre of bildungsroman. Youth, he decidedly notes, is  at the heart of the genre, owing to the mobility and interiority that it facilitates, and  its characterisation as dynamic and unstable, yet transient and impermanent. Critics such as Barbra Whitman trace the genre as far back as Homer’s Iliad (8th century BCE) and evolving to include an array of narratives and characters, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1623) to Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister (1795-95).

Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is pleased to announce that the Lloyd Davis Memorial Prize will be awarded to the best graduate paper submitted for presentation as a paper at the 2025 ANZSA conference, Shakespeare in Spirit, in Brisbane 2-4 July. The prize is a cheque for AUD$500 and includes mentoring support towards peer-reviewed publication of the paper, provided by a suitably expert senior scholar on the ANZSA Executive.

You are eligible to enter for the prize if:

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2025.

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

This is a guaranteed roundtable sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11 in Toronto, ON. In the spirit of the conference theme “Family Resemblances” and the call to resist categorizations and exclusionary boundaries, this roundtable assumes an expansive understanding of children’s literature scholarship in mapping its potential futures.

*** Special Issue Call for Papers ***
Compliance, Processes, and AI Technologies for Legal Systems
Computer Law & Security Review - Elsevier Journal (IF 3.3)

This chapter will be part of an edited collection that aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence. It also deals with the depiction of malignant non-human entities interfering with human thoughts and evil non-human cosmic intelligences interfering with human destinies.

UPDATED DEADLINE: Feb, 7th, 20245.

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas with a partial panel formed for this year's American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025. We're looking for one more presenter and a chair for a panel on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

The fully online Open Access Medieval Studies (OAMS) conference aims to facilitate the critical and explicit intersection of Palestinian liberation and medieval studies. As such, this virtual conference will run directly counter to the Centennial Meeting of the MAA, happening March 20-22, 2025.

We invite scholars at all stages in their academic careers to submit papers centering on the theme of 'liberation,' broadly conceived. Proposals due February 14. Questions can be directed to mfpconference2025[at]gmail[dot]com.

Link to the CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11HodsTXn5t6NMbL1kNK1JGAOCyD-fgY6qRVS...

La Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Aïn Chock, l’Université Hassan II de Casablanca, le Laboratoire de recherche Genre, Éducation, Littérature et Médias et le Master Genre, Sociétés et Cultures organisent un

Colloque international :

Regards croisés sur la question de l'égalité femmes-hommes au Maroc et ailleurs

Les 22 et 23 mai 2025

ARGUMENTAIRE

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Theme

Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Dates

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two

currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer

2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and

expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.

About the Spelman Archives:

The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make

available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

“Approaching Dystopia”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025