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Concept Note:
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
27-28 November 2025
International Conference
“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)
Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)
In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination
Overview
Journal of European Popular Culture
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
JEPC 16.2 - 2025 & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The 2025 issues are open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
Guest Reviewers
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.
New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise.
The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
The Plantationocene: On Histories and Narratives of the Plantation
Special issue for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
Editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
Somasree Sarkar, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India
Call for papers "Literary and Artistic Expressions of Radical Ecology"
Special issue of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Editor: Goutam Karmakar, University of Hyderabad, India
New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025
THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT
International Scholarly Conference
10–12 September 2025
Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,
Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland
April 23–25, 2026
PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).
PAMLA will meet during the fiftieth anniversary of Ursula Le Guin’s “The New Atlantis,” and of her rare achievement: winning the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards simultaneously, for The Dispossessed, which appeared the year before. It would seem an auspicious occasion to explore her retroactively provocative contributions to what has since come to be known as clifi, and her oeuvre more generally.
All disciplines and approaches welcome.
The conference is entirely in-person; no virtual participation is envisioned.
Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India
Submission Guidelines:
6th International e-Conference
on
Imagining Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humanity, Crisis, and Change
Date: 25th and 26th September, 2025(Thursday & Friday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
In collaboration with
School of Languages & Literature & Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu & Kashmir, India
&
Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Concept Note:
4–6 September 2025 | University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
The University of Tokyo will be hosting an international conference, Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World, on 4–6 September 2025. Should you wish to present a paper of 20 minutes at the conference, please submit your proposal by 15 July 2025. Limited travel bursaries are available, particularly for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
【CALL FOR PAPERS】
Established in 2018 and revealed in 2020, TALLER ELECTRIC MARRONAGE (EM) began when a group of Black/Latina, queer, writers, and artists decided to plot points across their escape matrix. Inspired by the petit marronage of our ancestors, we steal away on the electric platform, share our journeys and offer what we find along the way. EM now invites submissions pertaining to the key theme: “In the time of war”.
The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
Teaching Baldwin, Baldwin as Teacher
CFP for American Literature Association 2026 (Chicago)
American Comparative Literature Association
2006 Annual Meeting
Feb. 26-Mar. 1, 2026
Montreal, CN
Call for Papers:
ACLA 2026 CFP
Baldwin After BLM
If James Baldwin maintained a “ubiquity in the imagination of Black Lives Matter,” as William J. Maxwell and others have observed, then what are we to make of his words and image in a moment that Cedric Johnson and others have argued must be understood as “After Black Lives Matter”?
Special Issue Call for Papers:
Teaching Baldwin / Baldwin as Teacher
This summer in Chicago, gather with artists, educators, and industry professionals for four transformative days dedicated to consent-based practices in the performing arts. Whether you want to deepen your understanding, share your experiences, or learn from leading experts, this symposium offers a dynamic space for exploration and community engagement.
This CFP is an invitation to host a workshop, talk, or roundtable, presenting new practices that you have developed or your research related to consent-based practices at the TIE Symposium in Chicago, August 6-10.
CAIS Fall Teaching Symposium
New Directions in Italian Language and Culture Teaching: North American Perspectives
October 25, 2025
University of Guelph and Online
The Canadian Association for Italian Studies invites proposals for a one-day conference, with in-person panels to be held at the University of Guelph and online panels via Zoom, that offers an opportunity to reflect on the current state of the evolving field of Italian language pedagogy in North America.
Special issue Call for Papers
Supernatural liminalities in MTV’s Teen Wolf
Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit): Call for Papers
(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other
Dança guerreira e religiosa dos Tupinambá, Jean-Baptiste Debret (1834)
We invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature, the arts, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes, enforcing cultural hierarchies, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous, local, and non-Western communities.
CALL FOR PAPERS | APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS
The Odorous Object: On the Materiality of Scent
L’objet et son sillage : penser la matérialité des odeurs
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Friday, February 27 — Saturday, February 28, 2026
Vendredi 27 février — Samedi 28 février 2026
Organizers: Chanelle Dupuis (Brown University, USA)
Jasmine Laraki (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium — Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Clara May (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
This panel explores how cultural genealogies—artistic, intellectual, political, and linguistic—are constructed, resisted, and reimagined across French and Francophone spaces. Far from being fixed or linear, inheritance often manifests through discontinuities, silences, and contested claims. Artists and thinkers engage with prior figures, movements, and traditions in ways that may reaffirm legacies, subvert them, or create entirely new configurations of belonging and dissent. Whether through homage, revision, irony, or deliberate omission, these acts of (dis)inheritance speak to larger dynamics of memory, power, and transformation.