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Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

MMLA-African American Literature Permanent Section

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

The African American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) is requesting abstracts from potential panelists for this year’s in-person conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Informed by this year’s conference theme, “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives,” this section is calling for scholarly work that ties literature written by Black Americans to concepts of hope and its relationship to artistic production. Potential questions to address include, but are in no way limited to: How have representations of hope in Black American literature shifted across the centuries? What do depictions of hope look like when it has been disrupted or challenged?

(De)Constructions of the Future

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Word and Text
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Articles:

Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, XVI (2026)

Edited by Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus

(De)Constructions of the Future

 

Call for Papers - Special Issue: The Marriage Plot, 'Post'-Marriage

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

In a 2023 piece in the London Review of Books,Maylin Hays asks,“In the post-marriage era, what happens to the marriage plot?” Despite being in the midst of this alleged “post-marriage era,” conversations about marriage seem to be animating public discourse more than ever—from wildly popular “trad wife” influencers on social media, to the increasing frequency of conversations about gendered household labor in marriage self-help books like Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play (2019) and Kate Mangino’s Equal Partners (2022), to the recent rise in divorce memoirs like Lyz Lenz’s This American Ex-Wife (2024).

Queer Palimpsests

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:03am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference 2025 in San Francisco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Abstract

Queer palimpsests are texts from which queerness has been erased – but only on the surface. Scholars, therefore, are invited to reinvestigate these texts and their underlying queerness. This project includes books, movies, songs, fashion, artifacts, architecture, archives… a queer excavation in order to indicate the traces, specters, echoes, or presences of the past that remain even as many past narrative elements, structures, or tropes are forgotten.

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Hope in African Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
African Literature Permanent Section/ Midwest MLA (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The African Literature Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s convention which will be held in person in Milwaukee, WI.

"The Humanities is Where Hope Lives” for MMLA's Creative Writing II: Poetry

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Creative Writing II: Poetry permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks creative, critical, and hybrid proposals that connect to this year’s convention theme of "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives”. We are particularly interested in presentations from poets and poet-scholars who engage with the value of the Humanities in languages, literature, pedagogy, writing studies, linguistics, folklore, film studies, the digital humanities, and library studies. Any humanities-oriented poetics and praxis are welcome to address any element of these considerations that are pertinent to the discussion. 

Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section [MMLA 25]

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Midwest Modern Language Association [MMLA]
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

CFP Comics and Graphic Novels Permanent Section
Chair: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois – Chicago.

Conference: Nov 14-16, 2025
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

What Does Hope Look Like?

If it is true, as the CFP for this conference notes, that “hope can be found in the Humanities,” then comics and graphic novels offer a unique glimpse into that hope by drawing on the media affordances of prose and the visual arts. Comics let us “see” hope and optimism is ways other media are unable to.

ELINET LEM Early Career Researcher Workshop

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
ELINET - Language Education and Multilingualism (LEM) Strand
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Language Education and Multilingualism (LEM) Strand of ELINET is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the ELINET LEM Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop, which will be held virtually on May 23, 2025. This workshop is an opportunity for ECRs in language education and multilingualism to present their research to an international academic audience, engage in discussions, receive feedback, and connect with peers and experts. With this workshop, we aim to promote multilingual education research and policy development by engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue and encouraging collaboration and professional networking.

Location:  Online

Submission Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:02am
Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 23, 2025

 

Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen 

Saturday 21st June 2025 

Falmouth University 

This freein-person symposium will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of Bonkbusters, Soap Operas and Made-for-TV Melodramas. 

CfP: Research Network “Ephemeral Epistemologies and Encounters”

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 6:42am
Dr. Tanja Kapp (University of Tübingen)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

We are currently seeking contributions from the humanities and social sciences for a scientific network that explores ephemerality in both its material forms and theoretical conceptualizations. This interdisciplinary network aims to bring into dialogue various questions about ephemerality, specifically examining how different fleeting forms of expression are implicated in the continual making and unmaking of proximities, both human and non-human, producing “a matter of temporary intensities and pacts amongst people” and other entities (Vélez-Serna, 14).

The Great Literary Roast: Giving Fictional Characters the Critique They Deserve.

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 10:40pm
Oksana Marafioti
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Literature and film are filled with characters whose choices shape worlds, inspire audiences, and sometimes make no sense at all. This session takes a playful yet insightful approach to the conference theme of Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion by examining how cultural memory preserves, distorts, or over-glorifies certain fictional figures. Through witty critiques and audience participation, we’ll interrogate why some characters remain revered despite glaring flaws while others are unfairly forgotten or misunderstood. What does our collective memory choose to retain, and what are we rewriting with each new adaptation, retelling, or reinterpretation?

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 12:04pm
The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting 

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO 

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025 

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)  

 

THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS / ACAS 2025

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Popular Culture / American Culture Association in the South
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC AT PCAS/ ACAS 2025

 

Multiple-Births in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Modern Language Association 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

This prospective Panel-Session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2026 Convention will Focus on Decipherment of Multiple-Births in Literature, with Themes such as Bonding and Resemblance. I Invite Scholarship through Lenses such as Literary-Criticism, Genetics, Psychoanalysis, etc. Please Submit an Abstract of 250-300 Words to padmini.sukumaran@gmail.com.

Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
The Midest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 24, 2025

MMLA 2025 Call for Papers for their Permanent Section: "English III: Literature after 1900" under the theme Optimism Against All Odds in American/English Modernism


 

Deadline: April 24th, 2025

For consideration: please send a brief abstract (250 words), tentative title, and bio to Sophie Nunberg at snunberg@uwm.edu by April 24th, 2025.


 

 

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Cultural History; PAMLA (November 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

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. 

 

Cultural History 

 

Do Animals Hope?

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel

“Do Animals Hope?” 

 

Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.

 

 

Virtual session

Here and There: Reflections on Place-Based Photography

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

 

All photography takes place somewhere, but only some photography makes that place the focal point. From its conception, photographers have used the medium to document places, ranging from specific sites to regional and national landscapes, with the aim to educate, archive, preserve, and critique. Photographs of home and the local allow for reflections on belonging, community, and personal identity, whereas images taken elsewhere, perhaps in foreign lands, suggest an anthropological drive to capture (the essence of) the unfamiliar.

 

Caleidoscopio journal, series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Joana Bicacro, Lusófona University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

 

Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.

Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (Journal Special Issue CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 11th issue of Currents, on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

 

 

‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

 

Adaptation and Innovation: Linguistic, Cultural and Literary Responses to a Changing World (online conference for early career scholars)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

The Academic Association for Doctoral Students & Students of English (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online young researchers’ conference to be held on 22 May 2025 and the journal issue (Currents No 11) on the themes of adaptation and innovation within Anglophone language, culture and literature.

  ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.’

~ H.G. Wells Mind at the End of Its Tether

PAMLA: Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA 2025 Annual Conference

We invite paper proposals for an accpetd panel titled “Queer Temporalities, Memory, and Resistance in Asia,” to be held at the 2025 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in San Francisco (November 20–23, 2025), complementing the broader conference theme of “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

This panel explores how non-normative experiences of embodiment, temporality, spatiality, and memory practices intersect with acts of resistance across diverse Asian contexts. We invite submissions that examine these themes across Asia and its diasporas. 

CFP - JOCPC now accepting papers

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

The Journal of Children in Popular Culture is an open-access, online, international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholars and professionals to interrogate  representations of the child in popular culture. JOCPC facilitates an international dialogue among scholars and professionals through vigorous discussion of the intersections between the child, the conception of childhood, children's material culture, children and politics, the child body, and any other interactions with the child in the context of popular culture.   

 

Diverse Francophonie

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Diverse Francophonie

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

Biopics Past, Present, and Future: Erasure, Embellishment, and the Social Imaginary

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:51am
William Mohr / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Norman Klein deploys the term “social imaginary” in The History of Forgetting as a category of a built environment, the assemblage of which necessarily involves a significant erasure of a material domain. The social imaginary can also be used, however, to interrogate an individual’s belief in the continuity of self-identity. Always already in the imagined self, after all, is the rebuke of self-instigated doubt: just how much difference can a person tolerate between the “me” that others would claim to know and the cherished, even if fossilized, image one’s consciousness seems beholden to?

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