Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge) 

Edited by Nahum N. Welang 

Theme:

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge."  Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.  

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré.  Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television.  Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.

Send a proposal of 200-250 words to Adam Parkes, University of Georgia, at aparkes@uga.edu. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference

Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Call For Participation

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

Date:1-2 February 2026

Venue: Ahwaz, Iran

Website: WWW.TLLL.IR

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

TWO MORE WEEKS - DEADLINE 4/30/25

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Archipelago of Extremity:  

Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico

Editors 

Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD

Florida International University

Description

Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.

Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory

The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory that helps the tree to know when to winterize its cells. […]

Roots and twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat, and minerals. (Haskell 2017: 37)

This panel explores Michael Leong’s recent association between “documental” poetry—poetry that draws on and/or revises official or invented documents—and explorations of memory broadly construed, including forgotten historical events, the plight of unrepresented people(s), and the psychological and/or physiological workings of memory itself. How do such works define memory? To what extent are the workings of memory affirmed in these works? To what extent are processes of remembering obstructed, disrupted, or fragmented?

Las guerras del cuerpo: ataques, resiliencia, colaboración 
XXXIII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS)  June 4-5, 2025
The University of Mississippi (EEUU)
Oxford, MS
Hybrid Conference of the Association for Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS) 

Abstract Deadline: April 19, 2025. Contact:  aegsoxford@gmail.com
​Congress themes: 

The ninth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will
take place on Friday October 17, 2025, invites proposals for
papers on Henry James’s novel The Bostonians (1886). The
Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that
chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient
theoretical, historical, political, and narratological
questions about the novel as a genre. (See the 2024 BNS
website and this archive for more information about the
BNS.)

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) 

University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXX 

(2025). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely open access journal, published 

annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes 

articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide 

hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered 

The 20th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” Kenyon Commencement Speech is coming up this May! If you can’t make our roundtable at the ALA conference in Boston on May 23rd, we’d love to see you in the virtual realm for a four-day Zoom symposium themed around Wallace’s monumental speech. While it may be disappointing not to see each other in person, this is an opportunity to do things we can’t do at an in-person conference, and a chance to reconnect with our friends from around the globe. 

Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com Submission deadline: July 05, 2025 The Soliloquist  Journal  is inviting poems and soliloquies for its second issue (Summer 2025 issue).

We invite contributions for an upcoming edited volume on Yaşar Kemal, one of the most influential figures in Turkish literature and world literature. Despite Kemal’s international acclaim and extensive literary output, no comprehensive edited volume in English has yet been published. This book aims to fill that gap by offering critical perspectives on Kemal’s literary aesthetics, social engagement, and cultural legacy.

Scope and Themes

We welcome contributions from diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

• Yaşar Kemal’s Literary Style and Aesthetics

o Narrative structures, use of folklore, and oral storytelling traditions