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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

Call for Book Chapters: A Humanities Pedagogy Approach to Modern Masculinity (under contract with Routledge) 

Edited by Nahum N. Welang 

Theme:

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 

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

'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:

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.