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Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Netrokona University
Netrokona-2400
Bangladesh
Call for Papers
For this panel, the phrase "family ghosts" is to be understood broadly. What does it mean to have family ghosts? What does it mean to be haunted by them? And who or what is haunted? Is family itself the ghost that haunts all of us? In what sense are we all haunted by family? These are just a few opening questions to consider this idea of family ghosts.
A brief bio and a short abstract (200-300 words) is requested by 3/20.
The MS Sound Forum invites papers for a guaranteed session at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Toronto in January 2026. The session responds in part to the MLA Executive Council’s refusal to allow debate or a vote on Resolution 2025-1, which supported the international “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction” (BDS) Movement for Palestinian rights against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In light of the Council’s suppression of debate, at MLA 2026, the Sound Forum seeks to provide a space for dialogue and meditation on silencing, censorship, and the role of organizations like the MLA in the face of systemic violence and threats to academic freedom.
CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.
GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
CONRAD: Modern Language Association Conference / JAN 2026 / Toronto CAN
The Joseph Conrad Society of America is currently celebrating its half-centenary 1975-2025.
GUARANTEED MLA PANEL:
Joseph Conrad: False Truth & the Absurd
Panel on Conrad’s critique of false or misleading “truths” in a world without set meanings. Papers considered on national/imperial truisms, or the “absurd” as a mode of actuality or critique. Short bio, 250wd proposals.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 16 March 2025
"Goethe as World Literature"
Panel sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g.
Technology is advancing rapidly, reshaping language resources and access, and the translation and interpretation (TI) fields across industry sectors, from the legal to the educational. How is this evolution impacting literature and creative contents? Is technology hindering or advancing creativity, and will multilingual expressions become more (in)visible, (ir)relevant, and (in)accessible? These critical questions suggest a new frontier for the language professions, especially in the arena of literary and multimedia production.
Literary Infrastructure and the Precarity of Modernist Writers
Below is an updated list of texts available for review in The Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Reviewers must be professors, independent scholars, or professionals who hold a PhD or terminal degree in their field. Advanced graduate students are also encouraged to reply.
Email the Book Review Editor at jsrbookreview@gmail.com in order to review a text listed below. We also welcome and encourage ideas on other texts related to radicalism.
For the 2025 edition of Multiplatform, the Manchester Game Centre teams up with the MMU research group DVRK – Dark Arts Research Kollective – to host a conference exploring the intersections between games and occulture, investigating the transformative potential of games as forms of rituals to explore alternative histories and speculate on radical futures.
Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes
Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics
University of Kent
23 – 24 June 2025
** Deadline for abstracts extended to Monday 17 March 2025 **
‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration
This conference titled Gender Mainstreaming – ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Approaches in the Context of South Asia is an attempt to explore burgeoning conversations around Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia with tangential focus on India. The ‘Global North’ has been focusing its attention on foreign policy agendas that are transformative and unique beginning with Sweden taking the initiative in 2014 focusing on rights, representation and resources that impact women. This responsive approach was followed by Canada, France, Luxemburg and Mexico drawing out the ‘Feminist International Assistance’ policy in intersection with focusing on areas namely inclusive governance, security, cross border trade and human rights.
We seek submissions for chapters for inclusion in an interdisciplinary book that seeks to examine the
Transatlantic Slave Trade and its re-telling through cinematic representation and pedagogical instruction.
Chattel slavery (enslavement through conquest, birth, gender, race, ethnicity, kinship, and exploitation of
indebtedness) has long been endemic to varied societies. Its Transatlantic iteration saw at least 10 million
Africans brought to the Americas. Now, two centuries after its legal abolition, how do we conceptualize,
represent, and teach about that period, its legacy, and its relationship to both media and education without
Deadline EXTENDED: Submissions due by March 15, 2025 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
This panel invites papers on transnational influences among liberation theologies worldwide or on comparisons of theologians’ negotiations between Christianity and Marxism in their local contexts. Submit a 150-word abstract and a short bio to Youngkyun Choi (youngkch@umich.edu).
Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper30421.html
Conference online (via Zoom): 27-28 March 2025
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
CFP: In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.
The Renaissance and Early Modern Forum executive committee invites proposals for a guaranteed *virtual* panel at MLA 2026 titled “Early Modern Women’s Violence.” This panel will explore representations of women’s violence across early modern literature and culture. How do early modern texts gender violence? How do they figure women’s force, resistance, criminality, self-harm, vengeance, etc.? How do cultural forces shape and respond to these portrayals? Please email a short CV and 200-word abstract to nazarian@northwestern.edu by March 15, 2025.
Call for Book Chapters
Title: The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America
Editor: Prof. Hamid Masfour
Dept. of English
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University
Beni Mellal, Morocco
Deadline for abstract submission: August15,2024
Book Argument
The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference
June 14-15, 2025
Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London
and online
Proposal Deadline: April 30, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland
Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/the-creative-psyche/
Call for Papers:
Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals
When Worlds Collide: Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling
The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.
This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania. For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit:
'The Soliloquist Magazine' seeks submissions of poems and soliloquies for Spring 2025 issue Website: https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submitEmail: thesoliloquistmag@gmail.com Submission deadline: April 05, 2025 The Soliloquist Magazine is inviting poems and soliloquies for its first issue (Spring 2025 issue
RE-CFP: ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg
Edinburgh University Press
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.
The online issue of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, the bi-annual journal of the Department of English, University of North Bengal, has been published. The journal is now inviting submissions for its June, 2025 issue. The details of the journal can be found at https://negotiations.nbu.ac.in . All details regarding the submission procedure, processes of free registration, current issue, style sheet can be obtained from the journal website.
The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?
Conference ThemeKenneth Burke, the Humanities, and Agency in the Era of AI
Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
Call for Papers
During our sixth annual online event, we will discuss 'making, remaking, and limitations' in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Our questions are: How and why do people continue to make and remake culture? In what ways do they experience limitations when making and remaking culture, if any? What is the significance of the making and remaking of culture and whom is it for?
Conference online (via Zoom)
27-28 March 2025
CFP:
In 2050, according to scientists’ expectations, 17% of world population will be people aged 65 and over. There will be twice as many elderly people as today. In the light of these predictions, it is obvious that we have to change radically our viewpoint on many aspects of life. We have to re-think our attitudes toward cultural, social, political, economic, medical, and many other dimensions of the world’s near future.
Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing
26th - 27th June 2025
Deadline for Submissions: March 10th 2025