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We invite proposals for short articles to complete a cluster on “Accessibility in Feminist Modernist Studies.” The papers in this cluster will consider how feminist methods and considerations of structural access help us understand and re-examine the concept of “modernist difficulty.”
Editors Lisa Hopkins and Katherine Walker seek contributions from scholars at any stage of their careers to contribute to an edited collection titled The Arden Handbook to Shakespeare’s Worlds (for more on The Arden Shakespeare handbooks, see this link).
Call for Papers
Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature
(Indexed in Scopus, ISC, and SJR | Published by the University of Tehran)
Scope: Cutting-Edge Research in World Literature (Post-1945)
Publication Date: autumn-winter 2025-2026
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025
The Journal of Research in Contemporary World Literature invites scholarly contributions for its forthcoming autumn-winter 2025-2026 issue, devoted to pioneering research on global literary production after 1945. As of autumn 2025, the journal now accepts submissions in both Persian and English, reflecting its commitment to multilingual and cross-cultural engagement.
National Identities (T&F)
Special Issue Editors:
Debajyoti Biswas, Department of English, Bodoland University.
Email: deb61594@gmail.com
Parvin Sultana, Department of Political Science, Pramathesh Barua College (Affiliated to Gauhati University)
Email: parvin.jnu@gmail.com
Xenophobia and Violence in Asia
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in San Francisco at the InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Hitchcock's America
Call for Papers
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium
Sunday, 20 July 2025
The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture invites proposals for another panel on the theme of "(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media" for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association's 2025 Virtual Symposium, which will run on Sunday, 20 July 2025.
The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.
Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:
Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.
This session is a sepcial session at 122nd PAMLA Conference between Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025 located at San Francisco, California.
Fluidity is a complex state of being in the world that exists in the realm of the aesthetic. To be fluid means to be continuously shifting and morphing, calling attention to embodiment and its materiality in relation to spaces and each other. As an identitarian characteristic, fluidity challenges the spatio-temporal logics that impose rigid taxonomy through the hetero-patriarchy and, instead, offers resistance. As a spatial condition, fluidity may offer malleable or blurry boundaries to help form alternative ways of being and connecting in the world. As a process, fluidity means to reimagine bodies and spaces as watery.
This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.
The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.
We invite additional chapters for a K-pop reader for publication with Routledge. We especially welcome scholars who can contribute to Part I from global perspectives situated outside the U.S. (particularly in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe), as well as contributors for Parts II and III from wide ranging fields.
The abstract, table of contents for the reader, and submission details can be found below.
Abstract
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:
For this special issue on “Staying Put,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that engage with “staying put” as a conceptual framework and/or as a foundational aspect of theatre, dance, and performance studies scholarship. This theme is inspired by the resilience performance groups have historically exhibited—and continue to exhibit—in response to challenges such as the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising rents, lack of funding, and political instability. Many practitioners and companies have resisted displacement, remaining in the spaces where they cultivate their craft, generate new artistic possibilities, and engage with their communities. A notable example is Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado.
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.
Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Conference 2025 October 16–18, 2025 - York University, Toronto, ON Queer(Ing) Early Modern Art [Panel Session]This session seeks to bring together scholars interested in the representations of trans and queer desires, bodies, identities, performances, cultures, and resistances in early modern visual works and texts. The aim is to investigate: 1. the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, religion, and ability in early modern art and how these intersections complicate our understanding of trans and queerness. 2.
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.
ABSTRACT
Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge)
Edited by Nahum N. Welang
Theme:
The ninth BAKEA (International Western Cultural and Literary Studies Symposium), which was first organized in 2009 by the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Pamukkale University, will be hosted this year by the Departments of French Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, German Language and Literature, and Russian Language and Literature at Selçuk University. The main theme of this year’s symposium has been entitled as “fiction,” with the aim of bringing together theoretical and applied studies from relevant disciplines.
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.
Film Production in the 21st Century
16th International Small Cinemas Conference
October 13-15, 2025
Lodz, Poland
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.
SAMLA’s 97th annual conference, Knowledge, will be held at the Wyndham Atlanta Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA this year from November 6-8. Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://southatlanticmla.org/
Speculative Fiction Panel
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.
'Looking Back, Looking Forward': ROLES XIV Sexuality & Gender Studies ConferenceCall for papers deadline: 12 May 2025, 12 midday (BST)Conference date: 9 June 2025, 10am-4pm (BST); University of Birmingham and onlineAbstract submission portal:
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
Congreso Internacional Virtual
COMIDA E IDENTIDAD EN LOS CUENTOS INFANTILES DEL SIGLO XXI
JUEVES 9 Y VIERNES 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 (ONLINE)
Organizado por los Grupos de Investigación “Cultura, Crítica y Textos (CCyT)”. Universidad Internacional de Valencia y “Pensamiento, Creación y Representación en el ámbito de los Estudios Culturales” (PeCRaEC). Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Since 2014, the eTEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has served as a platform for the examination and exploration of diverse "texts" from English-speaking countries of Ango-Saxon heritage. By bringing together scholars, doctoral students, and early-career professionals, the conference fosters scientific debates and critical discussions that drive forward our understanding of literature and culture. Our sessions facilitate development and dissemination of original research, encouraging participants to engage in critical analysis of a wide array of social, cultural, philosophical, and historical issues.
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.