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Comedy: Darkness and Light

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
International Society for Philosophy in Film
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) Fourth Annual Symposium

Call for Abstracts August 28-30, 2025 London, England

https://www.philosophyliterature.com/ispif

Theme: Comedy: Darkness and Light

Abstract Deadline April 15, 2025

Completed papers due July 30, 2025 

CFP: Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:08am
Feminist Formations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

We are inviting submissions for a special issue of *Feminist Formations* onthe topic of "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University."

Abstracts are due March 31, 2025.

**DEADLINE EXTENDED**University of Southern Mississippi CFP - Mississippi Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 11:02am
University of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from Mississippi and Gulf States graduate students for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

The Evolving Role of AI in Language and Literature Pedagogy

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Modern Language Association 2026 Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

This virtual roundtable explores AI's transformative impact on teaching language and literature. We welcome proposals that provide concrete examples or innovative methodologies for integrating AI, contributing to a dynamic and practical pedagogical toolkit. Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025 to svetatyutina@yahoo.com.

Worlds Beyond: 48th Annual Williamson Lectureship

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Theme: Worlds Beyond

The Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) invites scholars, academics, and researchers to submit abstracts for academic papers and/or proposals for panel presentations focused on the intersection of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and hybrid genres) with the evolving notion of the (post)human. The theme for this year's Lectureship is "Worlds Beyond” with distinguished guest of honor Darcie Little Badger, the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Newberry Honor Award winning author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth. The event will also feature several other speculative fiction authors.  

English Literature since 1900

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 10:56am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This panel seeks papers that explore all aspects of English literature since 1900. Proposals may explore Trans-Atlantic artists, or artists whose works were influenced by their English territory residency, as well as those artists of the British literary canon. Please submit a proposal no longer than 250-300 words to Dr. Krista Rascoe at krista.rascoe@tccd.edu by April 1st. 

Pedagogies of Falling Apart: A Roundtable Discussion

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 8:10am
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil. 

 

Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:47am
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Medusa: Essay on Modern Drama

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

This call for papers seeks one specific chapter on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapter needed involves Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in August 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 6,500 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 1:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 8:36pm
International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

You can search for the cfp here:

https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide

I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines: 

UCL Artists' Books Symposium: Structures/Infrastructures

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:39am
Killian Beashel / University College London (UCL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.

5th Annual GOTH Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Gender and Otherness in the Humanities, Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

EVENT:             5th Annual GOTH Symposium

DATE:               Thursday 15 to Friday 16 May 2025

ORGANIZERS:    The Open University Centre for Research into Gender and Otherness in the Humanities

GUEST PANEL:   The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group

TYPE:                F2F

HOST:               Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts & Humanities

LOCATION:        The Open University, Milton Keynes

THEME:            Gender and otherness in drama, literature and visual culture, III.

CFP DEADLINE: 28 February 2025

NOTIFICATION: 14 March 2025

 

Modernity in Translation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:38am
Journal: Encounters in translation
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Modernity in Translation

 

Guest Editors

Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt

Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA

 

Journal: Encounters in translation – Rencontres en traduction

Diamond open access:
free for authors, free for readers

 

Languages of submission

Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors

           

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Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures (Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:37am
Tampere University, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 2, 2025

‘With the tremendous acceleration of life, mind and eye have become accustomed to seeing and judging partially or inaccurately, and everyone is like the traveller who gets to know a land and its people from a railway carriage.’ (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)

We are inviting proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on the aesthetics of the railway. Taking place on two trains from Vienna to Bucharest and from Bucharest to Istanbul, the conference will itself be a mobile experience.

John Clare Panel at MLA Convention in Toronto

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:36am
John Clare Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The John Clare Society of North America invites proposals for its annual session at the MLA Convention in Toronto, January 8-11, 2026. Abstracts (250-300 words) are invited on any aspect of John Clare's writings, his life and times, and the work of his contemporaries. Please submit abstract and short bio by March 15, 2025, by email to Erica McAlpine (erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk).

Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:35am
TC Religion and Literature forum -- MLA Convention 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet(2010), religious values—and religious speech—have contributed enormously to justice throughout history, including movements for abolition, civil rights, decolonization, and more recently, calls to redress environmental damage as in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.

Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:34am
TC Religion and Literature Forum -- MLA Convention January 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the Transdiscipinary Connections Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA debate institutional responses to the Gaza genocide, we seek to amplify scholarship in our transdisciplinary field that bears witness to the struggle for just peace and Palestinian liberation. 

 

Please submit 250-word proposal and CV by Mary 15, 2025 to Cynthia Wallace, forum chair: cwallace [at] stmcollege.ca.

Call for Submissions- International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am
Indo-Dutch Research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Indo-Dutch research Centre on Climate Change Law Research and Education is thrilled to announce its international workshop on Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Education, set to take place from 27th to 28th February 2025 at Government Law College, Ernakulam.

The Witch in American Women's Writing after 1865

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:25am
J. Samaine Lockwood
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

CFP: The Witch in American Women’s Writing after 1865

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference

Philadelphia, November 6-9, 2025

Conference website

Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
2026 MLA Convetion
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

 

2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Canada, January 8-11, 2026

 

Special Session Title: Doors and Gates to the Ottoman Lands 

 

This session explores the multifaceted experiences, perceptions, and narratives of travelers who journeyed to the Ottoman Empire and documented their encounters through travel writing.

Email a 300-word abstract with a 75-word bionote to bakirtassennur@gmail.com 

 

Deadline for submission: 20 March 2025

 

CFP: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:24am
Ilaria W. Biano, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Although initially dismissed as “a holiday from history” (Will), a “frivolous if not decadent decade” (Rich), and a “time of trivial pursuits” (Halberstam) (cf. Chollet and Goldgeier 2008), the 1990s have increasingly been recognized as a pivotal historical moment. Scholars have underscored its defining impact, with Wegner characterizing the decade as “life between two deaths,” framed by the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11 (2009).

International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:23am
ARTIIS 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation, and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Dear Researcher

We cordially invite you to participate in the International Conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability (ARTIIS 2025), aCorporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, to be held on October 21-23, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
www.artiis.org

The conference will be in a hybrid format (in-Person and Virtual).

Submitted papers should be related to one or more of the main themes proposed.

First Book Institute (Reminder)

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:23am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The 2025 First Book Institute

 

June 1-7, 2025

 

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

 

Co-Directors

 

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

 

John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies

 

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