“Teaching Women Writers’ Edited Texts:

New Pedagogical Approaches to Feminist, Anti-Racist Recovery Work”

sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

American Literature Association Conference | May 21–24, 2025, Boston

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society welcomes proposals for two guaranteed panels at the forthcoming American Literature Association Conference.

We invite presentations on any topic related to the life and work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 

Please submit one-page abstracts to andrew_ball@emerson.edu by January 20.

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for papers for our Summer 2025 issue. 

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship. 

If you would like to submit a paper for consideration, please go to: https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors

If you would like to propose a paper for this issue, please send an abstract, your CV, and a cover letter to citl@bu.edu no later than 15 January 2025. 

Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 14th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 30 and 31 May 2025. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EMPATHY

Conference online: 27-28 February 2025

​CFP: 

Coined by Marianne Hirsch in the 1990s, the term postmemory by now entered various disciplines who search to understand how memory form our identity and how we position, articulate or just make sense of our place in the society and our relations with it. The term postmemory problematizes the concept of memory by bringing attention to the memories that are not exactly personal but that keep on shaping one’s life and one’s  way of seeing the world.

Dialogues and Dissonances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspectives 

NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) |

Campolide Campus - Colégio Almada Negreiros (25-27 September, 2025)

Concept Note

In recent decades, the term Global South has come to signify the distinctions between the industrialised nations of the “North” and the comparatively less developed nations of the “South.” The Global North-South designation, however, is not strictly geographical but instead reflects various geopolitical, economic, and ecological commonalities between countries.

Intraspection publishes academic work that exhibits compelling prose, captivating arguments,
and rhetorical flair. The journal seeks to meld academic writing with evolving forms and writing
styles. Intraspection invites submissions that explore and inquire in ways that mesh with our aim
to blend scholarship and creativity, emphasizing style and rhetorical flair to highlight content and
the development of provocative ideas.

New Perspectives on Creature Features

Edited by

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and domain experts to exchange knowledge, address challenges, and outline future directions for developing explainable, interpretable, and transparent AI systems. It focuses on advancing Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by incorporating knowledge and semantics as core components. Contributions will address “demystifying the black-box” nature of AI and tailoring explanations to diverse user expertise levels, supporting equitable and fair decision-making for long-term sustainability. The workshop seeks to overcome the challenges of embedding semantic abstractions into intelligent information systems.

Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of WaterJournal: Atlantic Studies: Global CurrentsGuest Editors: Andrea Carosso and Valentina Romanzi (University of Torino) We are inviting proposals for a limited number of contributions to a Special Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, titled “Reflections and Refractions: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction and the Atlantic Poetics of Water.” The issue focuses on the new directions that anglophone fiction is exploring to express its “aquatic” imagination.We seek articles addressing new trends and currents of anglophone narratives focusing on the

Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference
24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)

 “Common Time: Enclosure and the Renaissance,” a symposium organized by 

Theatre Topics Special Issue Call for Papers: Whose Story? Resisting and Reimagining Master Narratives 

Theatre tells stories; and theatre historically have been telling certain stories more than others. Examining several larger factors such as classicization, canonization, colonialism, racism and sexism, this special issue of Theatre Topics invites inquiries into ways in which theatre classics and canons may have formed historically, and the ways in which we are grappling with epistemic violence of erasure in our contemporary relationship with master narratives across the world. 

Graduate Journal of Food StudiesSpecial Issue: Food and Loss

Loss permeates our lives, shaping our relationships with food, culture, and each other. How does the experience of loss transform our food systems, traditions, and identities? From ecological devastation to personal grief, food is inextricably tied to how we process and remember what has been lost.