The Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research  group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our sessions in the upcoming CCLA 2025 Conference taking place June 7-9, 2025 at Trent University, Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario and online.  

The conference, entitled “Comparative Literature Off-Kilter,” considers “our often off-kilter positionality in (and out of) academia,” and the precarity of the balancing act of comparison. We are asked to conceive the conference “as a playground on which marginal practices, thoughts, works and formats can form revolutionary friendships.”

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com 

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025. 

2-4 July 2025
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació.
Av. de Blasco Ibáñez, 32, València
Universitat de València (Spain)

What can be discovered between spaces?

Liminal spaces, margins, and thresholds offer us exciting opportunities to explore the past and our own perceptions. This conference aims to open discussion on under-represented or under-discussed topics to further analyse what we accept as “truth”. We will focus on the northern parts of the world specifically, as the northern regions were viewed as remote and uninhabitable. Medieval and Early Modern sources suggest that the further north you go, the more monstrous the world becomes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Published March 10, 2025: Anarchy & Harmony

Interdiscplinary journal edicated to the arts of folklore and myth.

To contact the editors and to submit your work to Coreopsis Journal, please write to: 

“submissions” coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com Our submission guidelines are here: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions  

Topics to consider:

The Department of English, Gauhati University, in collaboration with IACLALS, is happy to announce the fourth and final seminar of the series International Seminars on Contemporary South Asian Fictions in English. This time the focus is on literatures in English of and from the three nations- Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh- and the idea is to encourage an inter-/multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on literary and cinematic texts along with other art forms in understanding their contexts, cultural discourses, myths and legends.

What does it mean to “feel formal,” and what does it mean to write and speak about different forms of feeling in the first place? Does it even make sense to speak of form in relation to feeling?

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?

“It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. ... We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization (GEO) invites proposals relating to the theme of “Forward Moving / Moving Forward” for our 18th annual graduate student conference, to be held in person on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Call for Book Reviews: Volume 14, Issue 1 (2025)

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for book reviews for a forthcoming volume.

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

If you would like to contribute, you may submit a review for consideration at https://impact.scholasticahq.com/for-authors. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to citl@bu.edu.

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