PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.

PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).

“A Day”: 2nd Annual Goth Music and Subculture Conference

Deadline: May 22, 2025 

Conference Date: August 16, 2025 

Format: Online (via Zoom, Pacific)

Abstract: 150 words + 100 word biographical statement + Time Zone

Submit to: Noah Gallego, California State Polytechnic University @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

Contact: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com

Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis

Conference Call
9–11 June 2025
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Theme

Geoanthropology aims to integrate concepts from Earth system science and the Anthropocene debate, such as planetary boundaries, synchronic geological markers, and earth states, with the theory and history of phenomena such as extractivism and technology, biopolitics and exploitation, and modernity and legal thought. This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the utility of three concepts for the geoanthropological framework: metabolism, legal imagination, and geopraxis.

Dates

The Audre Lorde Travel Grant for Summer 2025

The Spelman Archives is pleased to offer two travel awards of $2,500.00 each for two

currently enrolled PhD students to research in the Audre Lorde Papers during Summer

2025. This award will support research and public engagement with Lorde’s papers and

expand scholarship centering the lives and work of Black queer women.

About the Spelman Archives:

The primary mission of the Spelman Archives is to collect, preserve, organize, and make

available for research historically significant documents and other materials which reflect

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

From its origins in South African debates about the direction of the anti-apartheid movement, to its reinvention by Cedric Robinson as a theory of race and capital’s world-historical enmeshment, to its contemporary status as a master signifier for left-antiracist critique, racial capitalism is here to stay. Across fields and theories, archives and methods, it circulates as the authorizing ballast for any number of arguments: that capitalism differentiates rather than homogenizes; that anticapitalist politics must proceed from the existential grounding wire of alternative cosmologies; that race names the persistence of feudal social relations in the conceptual, libidinal, and political infrastructures of global modernity.

After the Catastrophe. Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Narratives”

Call for contribution: https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/123

Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.  

We are seeking critical papers from all academic disciplines on the Korean Wave for an edited collection titled Cosmopolitan Korean Wave. 

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

CFP for proposed panel, “Modernist Mind Sciences”

Inviting proposals for papers to be included on a panel on the “modernist mind sciences” that consider the cognitive, neuroscientific, and psychological contexts for modernist creative practice: fiction and nonfiction, manifestoes, poetry, material culture, and experimental media. Papers might address the “infrastructures” of mind contemporaneous with the “modernist” literary and artistic historical period; papers may also consider contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific frameworks for understanding modernist aesthetics, modernist institutions, and broader cultural systems.

                                                    A Two-Day International Conference on

                                  DEMOCRACY’S UNDOING: SOUTH ASIA AND ITS POLITIES

                                                                   March 20-21,2025

                                      Organised by SRM University,Andhra Pradesh, India

Concept Note

CFP Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

University of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025

Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat Reeve

Organisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga

Macquarie University (Sydney, AU) and online, 16-18 July 2025 

Life and art are entangled. […] Art makes life new. We become something different in an art world. And crucially, our world has always been an art world.  

(Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 2023)