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Recovering late-colonial Malay(si)a: Histories and Legacies of Resettlement

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:22pm
University of Nottingham
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Recovering late-colonial Malay(si)a: 

Histories and Legacies of Resettlement 

Dates: March 17–18, 2026 

Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HX, UK 

Overview 

Translation Simposium within Anglistics I (1st. Anglistics International Conference on Continuing Education in Philological and Related Studies in the English Language)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 12:22pm
Anglistics organizing committee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

All papers submitted to this symposium must be related to results and research in or about English language; comparative, dissemination, multidisciplinary, etc. papers will also be accepted.

The proposed topics cover a variety of lines of work, including:

Literary Explorations of “American” Identity

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 10:53am
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

2026 NeMLA Annual Convention

March 5-8, 2026

Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA

Call for Papers for in-person panel:

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the United States of America, this panel seeks papers that examine US national identity as it is represented in textual form.  Specifically, we seek papers that analyze literary texts—novels, stories, poems, and plays—that speak to the characteristics of American identity and ultimately offer an answer to the question, “What does it mean to be ‘American’?”

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 9:32am
Prof Shuchi Sharma, Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Folk Songs in 21st Century: Ritual, Ceremony, and Euphoria 

Deadline for Submissions: 

4th August 2025

full name / name of organization: 

Prof Shuchi Sharma
(Professor, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Shubhangi Srivastava
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

Ms. Mitali Bhattacharya
(Research Scholar, Department of English, USHSS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

contact email: 
folk.songs.2026@gmail.com

 

Last Days for Submission – Call for Papers | I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual

updated: 
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - 8:57am
XX Element Project Associação Cultural
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 11, 2025

We would like to remind you that there are only a few days left to submit proposals for the I Cine Bárbaras – International Conference on Cinema and Audiovisual, which will take place on October 23–24, 2025, at Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto.

17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 9:30pm
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Decolonization and Global Justice [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 8:48pm
Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 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.

Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature (ICMS 2026)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 5:04pm
International Congress on Medieval Studies 2026 / Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments.

Contributions to Wilderness and Performance volume

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:54pm
Michelle Liu Carriger
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

CFP Performing Wilderness Volume

 <DEADLINE EXTENDED>

The wilderness appears to be a place devoid of theatre. As perhaps the most social of artistic forms, theatre and performance seem to sit in opposition to the solitude of wilderness, natural areas supposedly untouched by human activity. That is, wilderness and the performing arts are often thought as part of separate spheres, opposites even, situated firmly on either side of the imaginary divides between “nature” and “culture.” 

 

The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
International Toy Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The International Toy Research Association (ITRA) invites proposals for the 10th ITRA World Conference to be held in Augsburg Germany 5-7 August, 2026.  The overarching conference theme is The Zeitgeist in Toys & Games.

Proposal Submission Deadline:  31 December, 2025

Throughout recorded history, toys and games have shaped and reflected who we are. They inspire our play and fuel our development, both as individuals and members of society.   As both carriers and changemakers of culture, toys represent and influence the collective spirit of their times – the Zeitgeist. 

First Forum 2025 - SPEED

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2025—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

OCTOBER 17TH AND 18TH 2025

 

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Silpa Mukherjee (University of California, San Diego).

 

 

SPEED

 

Quilting and Women’s Storytelling

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Hairong Chen(Guest Editor, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Call for papers: Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal (A&HCI)

Special Issue: Quilting and Women's Storytelling

Guest Editor: Hairong Chen

 

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:20pm
Institute of Comparative Literature Margarida Losa, University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives

(Edited Volume)

Rethinking the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:18pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

Language, Culture, and Dynasty in the Brut: ICMS 2026 (5/14-16)

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:17pm
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

This session seeks papers that examine points of contact between different languages in Layamon’s Brut and in other prose and verse Bruts.  Papers that focus on instances within the text where speakers of different languages interact are welcome, as are papers that take examine Layamon’s and other Brut authors’ methods of translating sections of source texts and/or incorporating other languages into their text.  The session hopes to advance critical understanding of relationships between language and cultural or ethnic identity, language as a source of power or prestige, and translation as a way of conveying history to different audiences.  What do perceptions of language tell us about the writers and readers of historical texts

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Alessandro Cabiati, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

27-28 November 2025

International Conference 

“coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkins…”: Eating Indoors and Outdoors in Children’s Literature

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Vanessa Joosen (University of Antwerp), Prof. Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford)

 

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
University of Sydney
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 29, 2025

Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines (Dec 3 to 5, 2025)

 

In the contemporary intimacy landscape, machines have emerged not merely as mediators but as potential objects of desire. From sophisticated dating apps that claim to decode compatibility, to conversational agents scripting our seductions, to synthetic lovers rendering human connection obsolete—machines don’t just shape digital intimacies; they reconfigure the terrain upon which intimacy itself is constructed. 

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

updated: 
Monday, July 7, 2025 - 2:16pm
Hyeryung Hwang/Cross-Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Studies on Han Kang and the Cross-Cultural Imagination

  • Deadline for abstract submissions: October 1, 2025
  • Deadline for full manuscript submissions (upon acceptance of abstract): September, 2026
  • Publication Date: December, 2026
  • Languages accepted: English
  • Full name / name of organization: The Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
  • Guest Editor: Dr. Hyeryung Hwang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  • Contact email: hhwang@cpp.edu

Overview

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:18pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.2 - 2025  & JEPC 17.1 - early 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 8:16pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers for works of creative writing, creative writing studies and/or literary studies.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

[Extended Deadline CFP]: 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference (San Francisco, CA) – November 20-23, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 11:27am
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The PAMLA 2025 Conference (https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/) will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.

The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 8:28pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

New Perspectives on Bob Dylan (NeMLA 2026)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30 2025

Don DeLillo and White Noise at Forty (co-sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society) (PAMLA, panel) — LAST CALL

updated: 
Friday, July 4, 2025 - 2:25pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, 122nd, November 20-23, 2025, https://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

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