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EGSS/EBSS 2025 Conference: Call for Papers
R/evolution: Radical Change and Gradual Transformation in Literature and Culture
Université de Montréal
April 11–13, 2025
PAMLA 2025 San Francisco: “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”
The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California.
PAMLA welcomes special session proposals for the 2025 PAMLA conference in San Francisco, California on topics of scholarly interest that are not too close to the topics of our general (standing) sessions (see below to find a list of PAMLA’s general/standing sessions).
International Multidisciplinary Young Researcher’s Seminar (Hybrid Mode)
on
Planet, Text and Context: Perspectives on Ecology
Organised by
PG Department of English & Research and Development Cell
In collaboration with
IQAC
Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, India
5th April, 2025
Concept Note
Special Session Title: Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish Writers from the Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey (Online Session)
This panel explores Anglophone Ottoman/Turkish writers through various theoretical frameworks, spanning all historical periods. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives and comparative works that examine authors who have produced literature, memoirs, travelogues, journalistic writings, or any other form of textual production in English.
Papers focusing on lesser-known writers and works are particularly encouraged.
Call for Papers
Mode: Blended (Online & Offline)
Two-Day International Seminar & Workshop On
Indian Drama: Society-Culture, Tradition and Heritage Organized by
Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas
In collaboration with
Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur
and
Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed
Special thematic dossier 7.1 | The Boundaries of US Identity and the African American Experience
Editor: Beatriz Hermida Ramos (Universidad de Salamanca)
Dates: July 16-17, 2025
Venue: University of Bergamo, Italy
(Piazza Rosate 2, Bergamo)
An International Conference
On
Labouring Bodies in South Asian Films and Filmmaking: From Beginning to Now.
Organized by
The Cultural Studies Cell, School of Arts and Humanities, Christ University, Bengaluru
Conference Dates: 19 & 20 June 2025
“Pause to think a hundred times, a thousand times, on the doorstep of the film factory.”
Viktor Shklovsky: The Film Factory (1927)
Conference online (via Zoom): 24-25 April 2025
CFP:
Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so-called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is a relatively new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kinds.
Spanning distances between bequeathed social identities and quests towards becoming, Indian women have documented the many shapes that such striving takes. They have traversed distances between equality and freedom; sifted nostalgia and futuristic imaginations; and mediated ideas of collectivization and autonomy. The upcoming issue of Indraprasth – A Journal of Culture and Communication Studies, investigates the ways in which Indian women writers and artists have perceived and shaped the world in literature and art.
Concept Note-
MSA Boston 2025: Modernist Aerial Infrastructure
Conference online: 10-11 April 2025
CFP:
The Midwest MLA conference will take place this November 14-16 at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, WI.
Literary Influences and Relationships in 19th-Century British Literature
Presentation Format: In-Person Only
Culinary Expeditions: Media, Food, and Halal Tourism in the Global South, to be published by Peter Lang International Academic Publisher as part of the book series Food and Cultures from the Global South.
This book will explore the intersection of media, halal tourism, and gastronomy in the Global South, examining how food storytelling, digital media, and travel narratives influence Muslim tourist experiences and cultural representation.
We invite papers for an in-person panel, “French: Cultural Issues,” at the 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference themed “The Humanities is Where Hope Lives," which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Marquette University, 14-16 November 2025.
Apologies for crossposting.
Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies 7.1
Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2025
Contact: jg.rollefson@ucc.ie
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
Space and Culture, India (Q2 ranked Journal)
Guest Editors: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas and Professor Om Prakash Dwivedi
CfP: BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences
(London Academic Publishing, UK)
Vol. 6, No. 1, April/May 2025 (General Topic)
Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
No processing or publication fees.
#OpenAccess
ISSN 2516-869X (Print)
ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)
Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly
Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk
Call for panelists for a paper at the American Association of Chinese Studies (AACS)
67nd Annual Conference, hosted by Adelphi University, Garden City, New York on October 24-26, 2025. According to the AACS conference description: the theme of the conference is “Charting New Paradigms: China and the Chinese Diaspora in a Changing World Order” in multiple aspects of culture, diplomacy, economy, education, health, history, literature, politics, and society.
Detecting New Paradigms: The Detective Genre in Contemporary Chinese Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025
The editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite submissions for its upcoming issue that advance scholarly research and critical inquiry in the fields of English language and literature. We seek original contributions that explore a diverse array of topics, aiming to enhance academic discourse and foster interdisciplinary dialogue.
Calls for Papers for the 2026 MLA Convention
January 8-11, Toronto
The Doris Lessing Society
1 Doris Lessing the Storyteller: Literature and Social Change
The goal is to explore the ways in which Lessing uses fiction for social transformation through the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge, e.g., self-education, constructing knowledge, questioning moral/political values, and the relationship to language.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 23 March 2025
The interest in Slavic fairy tales and fables remains relatively marginal in international Fairy Tale Studies. Influential essays by Vladimir Propp on the Morphology of the Folktale (1928, English translation 1958, Italian translation 1966) and the Historical Roots of the Wondertale (1946, Italian translation 1949) encouraged international interest in Russian folk tales. However, they also contributed to the tendency to perceive these tales primarily as a manifestation of the oral or folkloric tradition—a perspective that prevails up to this day.
Keywords: Colonialism, Hauntings, Postcolonial, Memory, Imperial, Afterlives, Bodies, Narratives
Empire's ghosts persist beyond colonial rule, manifesting as hauntings that collapse the distance between past and present. These specters transform the immaterial into tangible forces that infiltrate daily life. The colonial past is never truly gone; it lingers, erupting through material and psychic traces.
This panel calls for papers that examine theories and histories of the body alongside histories of fashion and modeling. In what ways do contemporary fashion studies or modeling studies build on or depart from foundational texts that interrogate the body? How do fashion and modeling embody or resist ableism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other forms of oppression that are mediated through the body? This panel is particularly interested in the role of the model, expansively defined as fashion modeling, artist's modeling, instagram modeling or other forms of model-like roles and embodied performances.
2025 MMLA theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives"
Gender Studies
Panel Title “Hope for Voice and Gender” – Virtual Panel
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential,
flooding, eroding, quiet, steady, filling the earth, collecting in hidden springs.
When it rains, when we love, new life grows.
—Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love (232)
THREAD: Ubiquitous Medieval
SESSION TITLE: Understanding the Coloniser/Re-Imagining the Medieval
FORMAT: Short Paper
Science and Fiction Panel: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction
Chaired by Nesrine Affara (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- Biology) and Jeffrey Squires (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- English)
Contact Email: squires@cmu.edu
CFP deadline 18 April 2025
Call for Papers
An Archipelagic Turn and the “Other Asias”: Planetary Care in Literature, Politics, Culture
August 4-6, 2025
Jeju National University
South Korea
Keynote: Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University, US
The Critical Island Studies Consortium announces a conference that aims to fundamentally challenge and reconceptualize our understanding of “Asia” by privileging an archipelagic perspective
University of Siedlce
Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies
and
University of the Balearic Islands
Faculty of Philosophy and Art
would like to kindly invite all scholars from across the Humanities to take part in the
10th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues
in Language and Literature