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Pleasure Regained: Having Fun with Milton (RSA2026)

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As readers of Milton know, Milton’s writings are often humorous, titillating, outrageous – extra in today’s colloquial parlance. Of course, they are also challenging, but this too can be pleasurable. Studying Milton involves, simply put, serious fun. How might we rethink our affective approaches to Milton’s poetry and prose to spotlight not only their difficulty but also their recreation? What is at stake for Milton and for us in the pleasures derived from, for example, an over-the-top invective or a sarcastic God? What are sustaining and enlivening potentials in critical and creative practices, such as speculation, auto-criticism, and parody? And how might we mobilize these potentials in our writing and teaching to engage new audiences?

John Milton: A General Session (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers considering any aspect of John Milton’s writings, their reception, and their significance for a proposed panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, held February 19-21, 2026. In the spirit of the RSA, we also welcome papers that bring into dialogue Milton Studies and areas of research across the Renaissance world, including literature, philosophy, art and music. Send your paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2025.

Southeastern Renaissance Conference Annual Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:11pm
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 82nd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina-Columbia and held from Friday, September 19 to Saturday, September 20, 2025. 

 

The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.

 

How to Submit

“New Ways of Creating Knowledge in the Technologically Integrated Classroom”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:10pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines” (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our panel is interested in exploring and mapping potential futures for the humanities as technology becomes an increasingly significant presence in how we teach and present our work in the classroom. 

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CFP Between Journal_XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

CfP Between XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism” 

Edited by:
Simona Beccone (University of Pisa), Sofia Morabito (University of Pisa), Daniela Pierucci (University of Pisa), Matteo Zupancic (University of Pisa).

Submission deadline: 30 November 2025.
Peer-review (est.): February 2026.
Publication Date: 30 May 2026.

Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Luminous Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
Sophia Luminous
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
PAMLA / Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

CFP "For the Record"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027

Submissions due January 15, 2026

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