Trans/Pater
Call for Papers
The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:
Trans/Pater
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 5-7, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, London
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The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:
Trans/Pater
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
September 5-7, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, London
Literatures and Medicines Online Symposium April 23 2025.
Hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre at Bournemouth University, UK.
This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the online open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal [Inter]sections, titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. We invite papers that ask what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?
The year 2025 will mark the centennial of one of the most powerful voices in twentieth-century American Literature. Author of a reduced fictional production (two novels and three collections of short stories), Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) remains among the most widely praised authors of the United States, to the extent that, shortly after her premature death, claims by, among others, Brainard Cheney, Robert Giroux, and Caroline Gordon were made about the country having lost their next Nobel Laureate for Literature. Alternative history aside, what is true is that the last century of American literature would have lost an enormous amount of its meaning without the existence of Flannery O’Connor’s writing.
AICED-26
THE 26th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION
29-31 May 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Writing in a World on Fire:
Perspectives on War and Climate Change
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania
Call for Papers
Languages, Territories, and Contexts:
Linguistic-educational policies today
Catholic University ‘Our Lady of Good Counsel’, Tirana, 22-24 May 2025
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
Deadline for abstract submission: February 14th, 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
Call for Papers (Issue 36): Family
The family as an ostensibly biological group has been naturalised as the fundamental unit of collective organisation. Yet, as feminist and queer theorists have endeavoured to show, the family is neither an innocent nor an immutable category. Protecting certain familial structures has long provided justification for the ongoing legal regulation of sex, marriage, and reproduction, making the family a contentious site for feminist, queer, and racially-marked subjects.
Guest Editors: Jan Váňa and Hernán Maltz (Institute of Czech literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
In the year following the poet’s bicentenary, the 49th International Byron Association Conference will delve into the poet’s enduring and multifaceted legacy from the immediate aftermath of his death to the twenty-first century. The Conference aims to investigate Byron’s perspectives on various forms of futurity– historical, political, personal, and spiritual, among others – as well as the place he and his works have held in culture and literature since 1824, both in Britain and overseas.
The Global Rise of Post-Truth: Literature, Linguistics, Politics, Technology
International Conference: 24th (evening)-26th September 2025
Location: University of Vienna
Language of presentations: English
Deadline for abstracts (500-750 words and a short list of references): 15th March 2025
Selection of abstracts and notification of speakers: mid-April 2025
Conference Warming: 24th September 2025
Conference Dinner: 25th September 2025
Conference Fees: full: 65 Euros; reduced (PhD students; postdocs without access to funds): 35 Euros
Call for Papers
ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies
Thematic Issue 2026
Representations of Journalistic Practices
in Anglophone Literature, Film and Other Media
Guest Editors: Beatriz Valverde (Universidad de Jaén) and Barbara Korte (Universität Freiburg)
70 years of Lolita: (Re)reading Lolita after #MeToo
Organizing committee: Morgane Allain-Roussel (Université de Rouen), Marie Bouchet (Université de Toulouse 2), Ana Bumber (Université de Toulouse 3), Julie Loison-Charles (Université de Lille), Agnès Edel-Roy (Université de Paris Est-Créteil), Julie Lesnoff (Université Aix-Marseille), Léopold Reigner (Université de Rouen).
The conference will take place over two days in France on the Mont-Saint-Aignan campus of the University of Rouen-Normandy in November 2025
This panel will examine the ongoing catastrophe and accelerating devolution of medicine and its attendant practices in contemporary America. How late-stage America undermines health humanities keywords such as empathy, care, healing and the like are appreciated. What ways of "doing otherwise" are becoming evident in terms of medicine and health systems? What does this moment reveal in larger discussions of medicine, national affiliation, individual survival, and neoliberal, anti-democratic empire?
Journal “Temas de Integração”
2025 – no. 45
Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice
Deadline for Submission: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 21, 2025
As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."
This roundtable responds to and anticipates the tactics of banning, censure, prohibition, and redaction deployed by conservative institutions of late. From the erasure of gender neutral pronouns by Argentine fascists to the elimination of "Latinx" by state officials in Arkansas, from the outlaw of DEI offices by the incoming Trump regime to Rodrigo Duterte’s genocidal “war on drugs” in the Philippines, it is clear that the right-wing believes deleting a signifier also deletes its referent.
We are looking for papers for the panel Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium at the coming 4S (Society of Science and Society Studies) conference at Seattle, WA, United States, September 3-7, 2025. We hope to encourage submissions from different disciplines including media studies, critical infrastructure studies, urban planning, and history of STS. Submission (~250 words abstract) processes should be completed via official website of 4S below.
Rin Huang (they/she)
Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Tianren Luo (He/him)
Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University
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4S Open Panel (No. 12): Infrastructure as the Boundary Media/Medium
XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference
“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”
(Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025
Panel 16
Remediating the West
Coordinators:
Elena Lamberti (Università di Bologna), elena.lamberti@unibo.it
Mattia Arioli (Università di Bologna), mattia.arioli2@unibo.it
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE, BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA
www.fuotuoke.edu.ng
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(ON-SITE & ONLINE)
13-16 May, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
THEME: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES
Queen's University Conference: Training the Early Modern Heart, 29-31 July 2025, Kingston, ON, Canada. Deadline for abstracts: 15 Feb 2025. Inquiries/submissions to J. Standing, jade.s@queensu.ca; https://www.queensu.ca/english/conferences/cfp-training-the-early-modern-heart.
A popular t-shirt claims the first Pride was a riot.
During a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969, some customers fought back. Resistance continued for several nights. Whilst this may have inspired the first Pride march, it was not the first LGBT+ protest.
Special Issue, July 2025
The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Guest Editors:
Khalid Y. Long
Howard University
DeRon S. Williams
Loyola University Chicago
Call for Book Chapters
(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
Call for Chapters for the anthology Performing Dalits: Theatre of the Marginalized Communities of Bengal
Editors:
Reffat Ferdous, Assistant Professor, Department of Television, Film and Photography, Dhaka University
Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
Subham Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College (Affiliated to University of Calcutta)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
One-Day International Conference
Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda
Conference Date
February 20, 2025
(Hybrid Mode)
Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture
Friday, March 21, 2025
On the campus of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas
Morning plenary speaker: David Block, author of Baseball before We Knew It and Pastime Lost
Luncheon keynote speaker: Bobby Dernier
The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.