CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.

Call for Papers:  

Special Issue on Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene:

Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance

Editors: Elizabeth (Eli) Tavella & Cagatay Emre Dogan

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany

4th – 6th of June, 2025

When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)

Important Deadlines

               Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words)                 :               April 12, 2025

               Full Chapter Submission                                                                 :               June 15, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Patterson Prize 2025 (English submission)
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 36, no. 2

The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre.

Modernist literature emerges at the intersection of industrialization and the rapid expansion of fossil fuels—railways, power grids, and oil pipelines—that define the modern city while also exposing its vulnerabilities. This panel explores how modernist works engage with the materiality and aesthetics of infrastructure to critique the systems that sustain modern life and the forms in which modern life is communicated.

This session invites abstracts for papers that engage meaningfully with Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy. This session seeks to bring together a wide variety of approaches to and thematic interests in the novel. Papers might explore questions as diverse as possession/haunting, coloniality, race, the archive, gender, or theories of reading.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio through the Google form below:

 https://forms.gle/kzYew6K7XLPEpiG6A

Title: Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media: Wired for Love

Edited by: Amanda Furiasse, Nova Southeastern University

Call for Papers

“Pictorial Punch – Treasures from the Archive”

 British Library Study Day, 7th November 2025

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Patrick Leary (Historian of the Victorian Press) and Julia Thomas (Cardiff University)

This session seeks 250-word abstracts of critical and creative pieces on women’s war narratives from postcolonial experiences, like – partition, apartheid, independence, internal colonization, gendered, racialized or sectarian violence.

Call for Papers

Sport and Popular Culture Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2025 SWPACA Summer Salon

June 26-28, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

Visual Theology III Beauty and Faith
Part One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
Roger Scruton

Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, 24-26 October 2025, and the second part in the UK, summer 2026. (Details forthcoming.)

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).