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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.
The FES Acatlán through its Research Program, its Department of Humanities, the Humanities Program and the Hispanic Language and Literature Section, have the honor of convening the 4th International Conference "Connections and Human Aspects of Urban Space" which will be held from November the 17th to the 19th in a hybrid format via Zoom and at the FES Acatlán campus facilities.
The Unitarian Universalist Studies Network – founded in 2021 via a merger of the UU History and Heritage Society and UU Collegium – is committed to encouraging valuable original research done to investigate our UU and liberal religious past and to integrate findings gained from serious exploration of ethics and theology. Our work is informed by our commitment to countering oppression in all of its intersecting forms in the belief that such study will critically challenge our sense of who we have been as a religious movement, and deepen our aspiration to be a just, inclusive, and beloved community as Unitarian Universalists today.
Abstracts are sought for an edited collection on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).
OVERTONES EGE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual deadline: September 15
Special Issue CFP – Living in Languages
“Becoming Translator: Ontological Shifts and Translational Praxis”
Abstracts due: August 30, 2025
Preliminary drafts due: November 30, 2025
Expected publication: Summer 2026
What happens to the translator in the act of translation?
This special edition of Living in Languages explores translation not only as the movement of
meaning across languages, but as a transformative ontological practice—one that acts upon the
translator, unsettling their assumptions, reconfiguring their relation to the world, and altering
their very being.
The VIII edition of the Congress will take place on November 19, 20 and 21, 2025 in the Auditorium of the Congress Centre “Ciutat d’Elx” (Spain) (in person format), and via our website (online format). There are 3 participation options:
> Option 1: In this modality, the proposals of the Communications will follow the main thematic line of the new edition of the Congress and the Festival: Japan and its imprint on the Fantastic Genre.
> Option 2: In this modality, the abstracts will follow the generic thematic line of the Congress: The Fantastic Genre and its possible interconnection with the different platforms of culture, audiovisual and new technologies.
In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston artistically chooses distinctive forenames and nicknames for her characters, reflecting the uniqueness and diversity of African American culture. Names like Tea Cake, Bootsie, Alphabet, or Sop-de-Bottom are informal name choices that also highlight the difference between the proper white naming conventions and the relaxed naming choices of African Americans in the South.
Hello all!
We are delighted to share with you the Call for Papers for the upcoming GRACLS conference this November. Our conference, entitled “Configurations of Place and Death,” draws from the writings of Achille Mbembe to ask participants to consider the ways in which necropolitics shape how places and spaces are conceptualized and administered. The ubiquity of necropower as a determining force in the various ways in which humans inhabit the planet calls on us to engage with necropolitics as they relate to a vast array of fields and disciplines. Please see the attached CFP for a more in-depth description of the conference theme and suggested topics.
We invite paper proposals for the Cultural Studies Panel of the Anglistics International Conference 2025, dedicated to exploring how Anglophone cinema and television reflect, negotiate, and transform cultural identities and social realities.
This panel welcomes contributions that examine film and television as dynamic sites of cultural production and contestation. We are particularly interested in how visual media engage with issues such as race, gender, class, sexuality, migration, colonialism, globalization, and environmental crisis, drawing from interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Surrealism and Arts-Based Research:
Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/06/28/surrealism-2025/
Conference Dates: September 8-9, 2025
Location: Online
Proposal Deadline: August 4, 2025
Conference fee: 100 GBP
Call for Papers
André Breton, one of the founding figures of Surrealism, emphasizes the transformative and disruptive power of Surrealist art and thought in his famous quote:
Recent manuscript studies increasingly examine physical damage to medieval documents as intentional acts. Erasure often functioned as censorship, silencing content deemed transgressive. Conversely, damage has also been interpreted as ritualistic worship, where marks on texts or artefacts express devotion rather than destruction. This session explores erasure both as censorship and as devotional practice, investigating how such traces can be read as deliberate, symbolic interventions. By considering these forms, the session sheds light on the complex interactions between materiality, authority, and spirituality within the medieval archive.
Please note that this is a virtual session.
Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.
2025 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s sixth annual conference, which will be held on November 1-2, 2025. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online.
Join our Google Group to learn about opportunities and converse with members of the DBA year-round! Email to request membership: dress.body.assoc@gmail.com.
Comfort and Joy: Locating Hope in Dress and the Body
Victorian Jewish Life University of Heidelberg -- February 9-10, 2026 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewishculture in England was also experiencing an all-time height. International movements for reformand emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the century progressed,immigrants from Eastern Europe brought their cultures and experiences to London.
Recent years have seen an upsurge of narratives from the Global South that engage in the representation of various African cosmologies. In contrast with Western traditions, these narratives are contributing to an epistemological shift from “the study of African religion as object [to] the study of African religion as subject” (Olupona 2013: xix).
Venue: Dharmasala
Concept Note of Seminar
This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential and enduring franchises in video game history. Zelda has greatly impacted multiple generations of players, and has an extremely loyal and dedicated fanbse.
Games have long used medievalist or medieval-adjacent settings to engage with audiences. Scholars have noted the various connections to be made between popular perceptions of the medieval in games and historical and textual realities of the medieval world. While games may not always make it a priority to accurately portray medieval (or pseudo-medieval) life, there are still important parallels and intertextual references that games use to harken back to the medieval world—whatever version of that that reality they choose to use as a basis, at least. Just like games construct a faux reality for their players, so too have the popular conceptions of the medieval world been carefully constructed through literature and popular culture.
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) is looking for book reviews of any recent books (published in the last 5 or 6 years) in the field of Australian studies, including Indigenous Australian studies.
In particular, JEASA is looking for reviewers for Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene (2024) by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (2025) edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen. Other review proposals are also very welcome.
The concept of orphanhood may reveal a liminal yet productive state between figures, identities, homes, cultures and languages, exposing fertile spaces for crafting (re)generative views of self and other through literary texts. As characters, orphans may become queered figures, pointing back to the vulnerable state of childhood itself; as protagonists, orphans have also been connected to the concept of the hero (Rose-Emily Rothenberg), the role of the laborer, and the emotional “regeneration” of adults (Claudia Nelson).