Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference
Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
1-3 December 2025
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Philosophy, Spirituality & the Meaning of Life Conference
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
1-3 December 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
MLA 2026 (Guaranteed Session)
Toronto, January 8-11, 2026
Generous Modernisms
CFP: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"
The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.
Title: Bad Adaptations
This guaranteed panel is sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 8-11, 2026, in Toronto, Canada. In conjunction with the 2026 presidential theme, ‘Familial Resemblances,’ this panel engages with forms of Indigenous literacies and epistemologies, especially from the Global South, to highlight their connections to the Land, cultural memory, and traditions.
Invitation for proposals for a special session panel - entitled, "Forms of Mutual Aid in American Literature" - at the 2026 MLA Convention being held in Toronto, Canada from 8 to 11 January 2026. Seeking papers (15 minutes in length) that explore how mutual aid has been represented in American literature (during any historical period). Particularly interested - with the conference theme of "Family Resemblances" in mind - in whether such communal forms do or do not resemble the family form. Send 250-word abstracts and a bio to amangat@niagara.edu. Proposals due by March 17.
The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on "Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities." We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are contributions that address: the epistemological shifts prompted by the "global turn"; the integration of non-European perspectives into traditionally Anglo-centric narratives; the material and digital infrastructures enabling globally oriented research; and the tensions between local and global methodologies.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Porn Studies
Political Theory, Sexuality Studies, and the Politics of the Body: Honouring the Legacy of
Shannon Bell
300-word abstract and a bio by April 15, 2025
Porn Studies invites submissions for a special issue honouring the intellectual legacy of Shannon
Bell (Professor of Politics, York University)—a brazen feminist scholar whose work has
redefined feminist political theory, cyberpolitics, and sexuality studies. From her radical
Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association
78th Annual Convention
English Nineteenth-Century Panel
October 16-18, 2025
Spokane, Washington
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2025
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
Conference Theme: Multiplicity
We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ fifth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the UW Seattle campus on Friday May 30th, 2025. The theme for the conference is “Multiplicity” (understood broadly to include how to honor and support the multiplicity of our students’ identities, knowledges, modes of communication, and languages) and its possibilities as they relate to our teaching of English.
Call for Papers
The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars engaged with consent-based performance—in theory or in practice—to interrogate our existing practices and propose new ideas in pursuit of increasingly more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consent-based practices within our field. In our endeavor to promote the work of all individuals engaged in improving the intimacy specialization fields, we invite authors to submit any writings centered upon consent-based performance practices. We encourage authors to submit essays that do the work of:
Call for Proposals
Editors:
Whitney Hardin & Julia E. Kiernan
Narratives of persistence and survival: At the intersection of neurodivergence, academic identity, and systemic ableist structures
The Edward Albee Society is proud of the launch of The Routledge Studies in Edward Albee and American Theatre and sends out this call for proposals for new projects.
The new book series aims to examine mid-to-late 20th Century American theatre; its most influential and important playwright, Edward Albee; and his contemporaries.
Currently, two books are in production:
--David A. Crespy and Les Gray, eds. Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatres, 1950s-1970s: Albee and his Contemporaries, forthcoming 2025.
--John P. Bray, Jack Gelber: Consider This, forthcoming 2025.
In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day on Tuesday 3rd June examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought on our current moment.
Presentations will be held during the morning in which delegates present 15-minute papers attending to nineteenth-century realisms (broadly conceived), followed by an afternoon discussion-based roundtable, structured around the topic: “Managing Difficult Legacies”.
CFP: Nineteenth-Century Legacies
Proposals which study climate migrations through its literary and cultural iterations. The aim is to explore the social, political, and environmental implications of climate change on the crisis of migration.
300 word abstract and bio.
“This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow.” Those four lines of dedication close “Snow for Wallace Stevens” (2009) by the African American poet Terrance Hayes—an ambivalent ode, blending wintry detachment and “love without / forgiveness,” “lost faith” and faith regained. Hayes is far from the only poet of color, from the United States or elsewhere, to write a poem after or against Stevens.
In keeping with this year’s conference theme, this panel will focus on texts that function as infrastructures or sties of negotiated meaning and which also take as their subject matter real sites of infrastructure around which collective or communal identities or meanings are disrupted, negotiated and crystallized. Obvious examples include Williams's Paterson and Crane's The Bridge, but proposals on novels and plays as well as on film and painting are also welcome. Please send abstracts to Charles.Sumner@usm.edu no later than 3/21/25.
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Occupied Territories: On Palestine and Imperialism”
“The European conquerors are the first who are not merely after subjugation and economic exploitation, but the means of production itself, by ripping the land from underneath the feet of the native population.” – Rosa Luxemburg, “The Dissolution of Primitive Communism”
The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
JAMS@AX25
Want to present your work at the one-and-only Anime Expo? The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies(JAMS) and Anime Expo have once-again teamed up to give you the JAMS@AX25 academic symposium, July 3- July 6, 2025 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans of all ages directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love.
While the JAMS@AX25 welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers that match Anime Expo’s theme of: “Academics''!
Call for Papers: MLA 2026 Convention – Roundtable on "Bad Adaptations"
The Adaptation Studies Forum invites submissions for a roundtable discussion at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto (January 8-11, 2026). In collaboration with the Screen Arts and Culture Group, this roundtable will engage in a critical exploration of what constitutes a “bad” adaptation and how these works can be understood and assessed both aesthetically and pedagogically.
Title: Bad Adaptations
Virginia Woolf Miscellany #104: Woolf and Failure
Mary Wilson
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) is accepting submissions for the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture, and the humanities.
This conference is the second in a sequence of events co-organized by three public universities: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, University of California Berkeley, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the theme of the political economy of South Asia. Titled South Asian Capitalism(s), this Fall 2025 conference aims to investigate how capitalist accumulation is socially structured across South Asia.
While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.
Layers: Physical and Cultural Constructions of Space in the English-Speaking World
International conference organised by SEARCH (Savoirs dans l’Espace Anglophone: Représentations, Culture, Histoire)
University of Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2025
Keynote speaker: Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds)
Call for papers
Dear all,
We invite potential contributors for a Government of India-sponsored SPARC project
titled "Translations in Colonial India, 1800-1947: Paradigms, Networks, and
Practices." The overall goals of the project are as follows:
1. To trace the networks of translations between modern Indian languages in the
period under consideration;
2. To trace the impact of European languages such as French, German,
Russian, Italian, and Spanish, on modern Indian languages and literatures,
either in the original or mediated through English translations; and
3. To trace how translational activities helped the establishment of modern
Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms, The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Houston, TX, October 22-25, 2025. #ASAP16
Call For Papers:
AfroNordic Feminisms
This special issue of Scandinavian Studies explores and questions what it means to theorize, articulate, and practice a Black/Afrofeminism from a distinctly Nordic standpoint.
We invite submissions engaging with questions such as:
What are the continuities, departures, or specificities that characterize AfroNordic feminisms in comparison and relation to Black/Afrofeminisms rooted in e.g. U.S., African, and other AfroEuropean contexts?
Special Issue title: Representing Animals in Asian Screen Media
Journal: Society & Animals (SCI & SSCI indexed)
Edited by: Dr. Zhaoyu Zhu (First Author); Dr. Thomas William Whyke (Corresponding Author)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Background and scope