Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

Virtual issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society

Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)

The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society invites prospective participants to submit proposals on any aspect of Butler’s life and work. This year, we especially encourage papers and panels that engage with her any of her work and/or her archives. We welcome both full panel proposals and individual papers.

Submit proposals to:
Kendra R. Parker
Email: oebliterarysociety@gmail.com

Proposal Deadlines:

• Preferred: December 15, 2024
• Final: January 13, 2025

Please include the following in your submission:

Proposals for conference papers are now being accepted for "Taylor Evermore: A Swift Symposium," held in person at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on April 25-26, 2025. 

Taylor Swift has been referred to as “our modern Shakespeare,” placing her in conversation with the literary canon. Swift’s entire discography connects to, alludes to, and is inspired by writers across eras. From Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, and Baudelaire, to Plath, Cather, Austen, and Brontë, Taylor Swift’s discography ties invisible strings across literary history. This conference aims to assert Swift’s lyrics as “difficult poems” (Grossman) to recontextualize her body of work and other intense poetics.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University is pleased to announce the call for papers for the upcoming graduate conference, “Entre lugares,” which will be held at Yale University on Friday April 4th and Saturday April 5th, 2025. This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars to explore the multifaceted notion of liminality as it relates to spaces, identities, languages, temporalities, and literary genres.

The times, they are a changing! AI, book bans, changes in student populations, the rise of the neoliberal university, and more are changing how we engage with children's literature in the classroom. With all these changes, what is it about time we talk about?

An Archaeology of the Gaze
Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality

Anyone familiar with the war iconography of ancient sovereigns—from the Assyrian palaces and temples of Ramses II to Trajan’s Column—would not be surprised by these powers' claims to legitimate violence. It was entirely endorsed by the sovereign, reducing the victims of the conquering arm to mere foils for the political power asserting itself through force. In stark contrast, the photographs that journalists share from contemporary conflicts are often characterized by a specific focus on the victims, whose suffering has become central to the interpretation of violence.

We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.

Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

This edited volume seeks contributions from scholars whose subject matter, methods, or researcher

identities resonate with what might be considered peripheral in communication studies. We aim to

explore how diverse perspectives—often shaped by specific contexts, marginalized identities or

cases, or alternative approaches—can challenge, expand or be an alternative to traditional

paradigms, perspectives and cases in the field. The concept of the periphery is not defined here as a

rigid geographic or socio-political category, nor is it a simple counterpoint to the North or Western

paradigms. Instead, we understand the periphery as a space where various ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways

Deadline: December 20, 2024

Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu)

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Real and Imagined Spaces in Film (Call for papers) 

Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 

May 29-30, 2025 

https://eventos.unizar.es/126084/detail/real-and-imagined-spaces-in-film...

Plenary Speaker:Áine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University) 

Deadline for abstract submission: January 27th, 2025

Conference title, organization name: The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society, Istanbul Bilgi University.

Conference date and location: April 26th, 2025 at Santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Hall.

Contact email: literatureandcensorship2025@gmail.com

The Intersection of Literature and Censorship in Modern Society

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.