National Seminar

on
"Art, Architecture, and Culture of Odisha: Bridging Traditions and Global Narratives"

18th and 19th September, 2025

Organised By 

POST GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, 

S.C.S. AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA

This year’s Latinx Literature and Culture session welcomes paper proposals centering on any aspect of Latinx literary studies, cultural studies, and film or media studies. Topics could include but are not limited to: the U.S./Mexico Borderlands, migrancy and the diaspora, Chicanx/Latinx Feminisms, Queer Latinidades, Translation Studies, Central American and Caribbean studies, Chicanx/Latinx Poetics, and anything else that may broadly fit under the umbrella of Latinx/Chicanx studies. We welcome proposals that maneuver through disciplinary boundaries and thoughtfully engage with a variety of artifacts (theatre, performance, popular culture, children’s literature, memoirs, and autobiographies).

Call for Book Chapter Proposals (

Call for Abstracts!

Camping and Philosophy: Big Ideas in the Great Outdoors

Edited by Joshua Heter and David O’Hara

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

CFP: NCS 2026

This roundtable seeks to host a discussion of Chaucer’s position in the study of Anglophone literature beyond the North Atlantic and Australia. We will hear about the institutional and vocational challenges faced by Chaucerians in what Braj Kachru called “the expanding circle,” i.e. countries in which English serves as a major second language. How is Chaucer scholarship beginning to take hold, or even spreading, in new ways and in new contexts? What opportunities do these contexts present for the teaching and study of Chaucer and Middle English? What role do translations of Chaucer play in teaching and scholarship? Participants will open with brief prepared remarks in order to allow ample time for conversation and discussion.

Call for Book Chapters: “Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity”

We are excited to invite researchers, writers, and practitioners to contribute a chapter to an upcoming book entitled Matrilineal Family Saga Beyond Western Modernity. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore diverse perspectives on matrilineal family structures across cultures, examining how they challenge and expand beyond the frameworks of secular Western modernity.

Focus and Themes

Abstracts are invited for the Romanticism section of the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA), scheduled for 20-23 November 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA, at the InterContinental Hotel.

The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.

Here are texts that we have available:

STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson

THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson

THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman

KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier

DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer

CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss

We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.

Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link). 

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025. 

Hitchcock's America 

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.

We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.

The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.

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