The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s conference in Philadelphia from November 6-8, 2025.

In “The Art of Fiction” (1884), Henry James writes, “A novel is a living thing, all one and continuous, like every other organism, and in proportion as it lives will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of each of the other parts.” In the same essay, he conceives of the novel in geographical terms, cautioning that “The critic who over the close texture of a finished work will pretend to trace a geography of items will mark some frontiers as artificial ... as any that have been known to history.”  James’s conception of the novel as a “living thing” inhabiting a physical landscape invites us to think about the writer and his work in terms of relationships between organisms and their environments.

The last decade of the Twentieth century witnessed a drastic shift from a ‘Bipolar’ to a ‘Unipolar’ world including the definition of the power politics and the diplomatic, economic and military status quo of the cold war era. Now the geographies of the globe had to shape the historical predictability, literary upsurges, socio-economic developments and psycho-cultural practices within the communities including the entire ecosystem of the various ecosophical narratives of climate change. In this context, ‘Geopolitics’ proved to the most apt term that invokes many things simultaneously. Political tussle and dominance is the most obvious meaning of the term that implicitly implies its global extent.

EXTENSION FOR ABSTRACTS: Submissions for the Democratisation of (Outer) Space Conference to be held in Norrköping, Sweden in November 2025 are expected on Thursday 31ST JULY. Details below.

We look forward to seeing your abstracts!

Graham and Michael

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28 November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private?

An urgent focus on ecocriticism in the humanities has developed in parallel to increased cultural engagement with folklore studies, particularly as such areas relate to the relationships between human communities and ecosystems. The application of folklore studies in ecocriticism facilitates the incorporation of previously marginalized perspectives and identities in order to speak to a global reality, building on the 'past' while responding to potential, and potentially unstable, 'futures'.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage."

–Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Call for Papers: AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research – NeMLA 2026

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) invites submissions for the session “AI Integration in Academic Writing and Research” at its 2026 conference. We welcome papers exploring AI’s transformative role in scholarly practices, including its benefits, challenges, and the effective and ethical use of AI in writing and research processes. Topics may include the impact of AI tools on users’ critical thinking skills, the accuracy of AI-generated content, AI’s role in learning writing skills, and the use of AI in teaching practices.

This panel explores how Latin American comics represent popular spiritualities, racialized bodies, and subaltern knowledge as forms of symbolic regeneration, resistance, and collective healing. Proposals are accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Those that particularly highlight subaltern religious, racial, and cultural traditions from the Global South and historically marginalized spiritual experiences will be especially valued. See complete description and submit an abstract here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21924

Propuestas para la colección Terror: Estudios críticos

deadline for submissions:

August 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

contact email:

coleccion.terror@uca.es

English version below

Frank*ology, or the Thoroughly Modern Prometheus: A Re-vision of Sensualities in Romanticism from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (virtual conference)

West of Canon press seeks papers and presentations on Frankenstein from academics, artists, and folks across disciplines for a virtual conference celebrating the long legacy of this incredible book. We are looking for academic style papers as well as creative responses to Frankenstein and its related media.

A non-comprehensive list of what we’re hoping to see and include:

• Transgender identity (specifically transmasculinities) in Frankenstein and other works by the Romantics.

Cultural Studies Methodology Lab

Department of English and Cultural Studies

In collaboration with

Department of Media Studies

CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore India

Organizes

A Research Symposium on Migration Studies in Peninsular India

August 28-30th, 2025

The notion of “wellness” as it pertains to university contexts has taken on a problematic valence over the years. Owing to the increasing neoliberalization of academia, wellness has been increasingly tied to pop psychology, self-care spending, pizza parties, and other “self-actualizing” capitalistic practices. By virtue of the precarious nature of their status and labour, graduate students in the university are especially susceptible to experiences of overwork, exploitation, burnout, poor well-being, and existential harm, with studies showing that nearly 40% of graduate students globally experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression, or suicide ideation.

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your creative work and scholarly reflections and papers to participate in the panel Media and Aesthetics of Environmental Decay in the “Global South"  to be held at NEMLA's Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. 

This roundtable hopes to bring together faculty and administrators with a vision to invigorate humanities programs. Its goal is twofold: (1) to provide a platform for sharing innovative strategies to enhance collaboration across traditional academic units; and (2) to critically discuss efforts that have led to new successes in (re)generating full-time faculty satisfaction in teaching, research, and service. Such efforts may include valued practices in co-teaching, faculty residency programs, Interdisciplinary Studies programs, joint appointments, and visiting professorships.