Popular culture serves as a powerful pedagogical force, often subtly and overtly shaping our understanding of the world, ourselves, and others. From the narratives we consume in film and television to the interactions we engage in on social media, popular culture offers frameworks for understanding social norms, historical events, scientific concepts, and the very nature of identity itself. This session aims to unpack the processes through which knowledge is produced, validated, contested, and internalized within and via popular culture, as well as how these processes intersect with the lived experiences and representations of various identities.

Possible Panel Topics May Include, but are not limited to:

In her introduction to a special section in a 2002 issue of Dance Chronicle, Sally Banes called for attention to an emerging subfield in dance studies that she dubbed “critical institutional studies.”[1] Distinct from what were established discourses of institutional critique in art history and visual and media studies, critical institutional studies would align more directly with critical museum studies, new materialisms, and Marxist criticism in its focus on material structures of support for dance creation, presentation, and reception. Since Banes’s 2002 call, predominant strands of “critical institutional studies” have emerged in relation to theatre, dance, and performance studies.

This session delves into the rich and multifaceted landscape of Spanish and Portuguese literature, film, and cultural studies within the Iberian Peninsula. We invite submissions that engage with a broad spectrum of topics, particularly those that foreground the experiences of traditionally marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) the Gypsy/Romani and Afro-Hispanic populations. Areas of interest may also encompass gender studies, migration and exile, political ideologies, poverty, violence, motherhood, masculinity, memory, and the dynamics of remembrance and forgetting.

Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge) 

Edited by Nahum N. Welang 

Theme:

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré in relation to the SAMLA conference theme of "Knowledge."  Possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; betrayal and treason.  

This panel will consider the spy fiction of John Le Carré.  Proposals are welcome on a wide range of topics related to Le Carré’s fiction and adaptations for film and television.  Some possible topics: intelligence and information; secrets and secrecy; the security state; surveillance; paranoia; moles; treason.

Send a proposal of 200-250 words to Adam Parkes, University of Georgia, at aparkes@uga.edu. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
presents the conference

Decolonization & Global Justice
22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Call For Participation

Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

Date:1-2 February 2026

Venue: Ahwaz, Iran

Website: WWW.TLLL.IR

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

TWO MORE WEEKS - DEADLINE 4/30/25

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Archipelago of Extremity:  

Fragmentation and Renovation in Puerto Rico

Editors 

Daniel Nevárez Araújo, PhD

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Nelson Varas-Díaz, PhD

Florida International University

Description

                                                                                          Call for Chapters

                                              Voices of Change: Women in 19th and 20th Century Indian Print Culture

The narrative of women in Indian print culture reflects a dynamic interplay of struggle and achievement, where, despite significant contributions, women's voices were frequently marginalized, and societal expectations and institutional barriers often constrained their roles. This complex history underscores the ongoing need for a more inclusive historical narrative that fully acknowledges the diverse and critical roles women have played
in shaping print culture in India.

Call for Papers: Latinx Voices in the South/ Voces Latinx en el Sur

What do you learn in a classroom that you didn’t already know from your neighborhood?

This roundtable invites Latinx undergraduate students to speak from experience—your own or your community’s—and reflect on how southern education can hold space for Latinx people.

A reading of original work by participants focusing on loss and modes of remembering the dead, as well as other kinds of loss. Please submit a few sentences about your poem(s) in the abstract spot (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19592) and a selection from the poems you’d like to read in the description spot. Then please email me your full submission (five pages of poetry). I welcome submissions by both established and emerging writers. Should you be chosen you will have approximately ten minutes to read .

Call for Papers

International and Interdisciplinary Conference "Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism"

4-5 September, 2025

The World of Warcraft Handbook: Twenty Years in Azeroth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
Edited by David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) &  Russell McDermott (Dickinson College)

This session explores how multi-ethnic American literature navigates palimpsestic memory—narratives layered with the lingering and hidden imprints of forced migration, slavery, displacement, and systemic erasure. From the brutal dislocations of the transatlantic slave trade to the quiet erasures embedded in ongoing displacement and marginalization, writers have often turned to transcribing stories of the past and present as a process of “Rememory[ing].” This panel seeks papers exploring the ways in which multi-ethnic literature traces stories despite systematic and social mandates to usher such narratives into oblivion. We especially welcome literary papers detailing a resistance and reclamation of racially oppressed identities.