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Who's Afraid of Areopagitica?: Milton and the Revolutionary Reader, Once More (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The premise of this anticipated panel is that Areopagitica is a critical text for our age, so it’s time to reconsider it. John Milton’s 1644 argument against pre-publication censorship is lauded by some as an absolute defense of freedom of speech. But Areopagitica also advocates suppression of Catholic writings and allows for destruction of most everything else after its publication. Scholars have long considered whether this text provides a resource for advocates of freedom of expression and the press, a model of totalitarianism, or something else entirely. How might our own age of media revolution and debates about intellectual freedom recast our understanding of Areopagitica and its legacies?

Pleasure Regained: Having Fun with Milton (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

As readers of Milton know, Milton’s writings are often humorous, titillating, outrageous – extra in today’s colloquial parlance. Of course, they are also challenging, but this too can be pleasurable. Studying Milton involves, simply put, serious fun. How might we rethink our affective approaches to Milton’s poetry and prose to spotlight not only their difficulty but also their recreation? What is at stake for Milton and for us in the pleasures derived from, for example, an over-the-top invective or a sarcastic God? What are sustaining and enlivening potentials in critical and creative practices, such as speculation, auto-criticism, and parody? And how might we mobilize these potentials in our writing and teaching to engage new audiences?

John Milton: A General Session (RSA2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:12pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Milton Society of America invites proposals for 15-minute papers considering any aspect of John Milton’s writings, their reception, and their significance for a proposed panel at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, held February 19-21, 2026. In the spirit of the RSA, we also welcome papers that bring into dialogue Milton Studies and areas of research across the Renaissance world, including literature, philosophy, art and music. Send your paper title (15-word maximum), 200-word abstract, and resume (.pdf or .doc) to MSA Secretary, Marissa Greenberg, at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than July 1, 2025.

Southeastern Renaissance Conference Annual Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:11pm
Southeastern Renaissance Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference (SRC) invites submissions for presentation at our 82nd Annual Meeting, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina-Columbia and held from Friday, September 19 to Saturday, September 20, 2025. 

 

The organizers will consider papers on any topic related to the Early Modern / Renaissance period.

 

How to Submit

“New Ways of Creating Knowledge in the Technologically Integrated Classroom”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:10pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association / SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

In his work AI Ethics, Mark Coeckelbergh describes humans as “meaning-making, conscious, embodied, and living beings whose nature, mind, and knowledge cannot be explained away by comparisons to machines” (36). Machine-assistant writing tools and other technologies have become increasingly prevalent as teaching tools in humanities classrooms, which means it is more imperative than ever we find ways to differentiate human and non-human meaning making and knowledge creation. Our panel is interested in exploring and mapping potential futures for the humanities as technology becomes an increasingly significant presence in how we teach and present our work in the classroom. 

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CFP Between Journal_XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

CfP Between XVI.31 (May 2026). “Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism” 

Edited by:
Simona Beccone (University of Pisa), Sofia Morabito (University of Pisa), Daniela Pierucci (University of Pisa), Matteo Zupancic (University of Pisa).

Submission deadline: 30 November 2025.
Peer-review (est.): February 2026.
Publication Date: 30 May 2026.

Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Luminous Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
Sophia Luminous
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
PAMLA / Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

CFP "For the Record"

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027

Submissions due January 15, 2026

Chenkaantal - Call for papers - Date Extended to June 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

 

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

Literary Musings - Regular Issue July 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:04pm
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2025
Academic Journal
Research Academy

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 2:54pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts

This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing? 

JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - permanent call

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10:31am
Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026 Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s)

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10:31am
From the European South journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026

Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s) 

Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Henri Bergson: Memory and Intuition

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 12:08pm
PAMLA: Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.

Special Issue of Scopus Indexed Journal Dia-noesis ISSN: 2459-413X (print) ISSN: 2732-7507 (on-line)

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 5:53am
Special Guest Editor- Dr. Shikha Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of English , SRM University, Delhi NCR , India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 20, 2025

This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 2:55pm
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?

How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?

Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ... this * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.

 

Contributors are invited to consider:

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

updated: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 4:27pm
Teaching the Middle Ages
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!

 

About the project

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
William R Benner Texas Woman's University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.

Inner Circles: Kinship, Inclusion, and Inaccessibility

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Postcolonial Narrations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).

JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
The European Association for Studies on Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on 

Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel 

(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other

scholars worldwide.

This is the call:

Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α, 2 Greeks and Local Historiography

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
Università degli Studi di Salerno
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.

The topics of the proposals may include:

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23.2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited. 

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