THE CULTURE OF ATTRACTIONS: PAST AND PRESENT

International Scholarly Conference

10–12 September 2025

Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń,

Collegium Maius, Fosa Staromiejska 3, Toruń, Poland

PAMLA will meet during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020). Interestingly, this developing body of work is punctuated by Noah Baumbach’s recent film adaptation of White Noise (2022).

Selected Papers will be published in an edited Book with an ISBN from AuthorsPress (International Publication), New Delhi, India

Submission Guidelines:

• Abstracts should be no more than 300 words and include a clear outline of the proposed paper’s objectives, methodology, and relevance.

• Bio-note: A separate bio-note (maximum 100 words) should include your title (Dr/Prof.), affiliation, contact information, and research interests.

 This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Dismantling the Neocolonial Maritime Archive:  Indigenous Oceanic Epistemologies” for NeMLA 57th Annual Convention to be held on March 5-8, 2026.

The panel addresses how West Asian, South Asian, and Gulf literatures regenerate the power of oceanic precarity that propels newer modes of decolonial resistance and resilience to interrogate and distrust the rigid structures that propagate epistemic violence and archival control. 

4–6 September 2025 | University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)

The University of Tokyo will be hosting an international conference, Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World, on 4–6 September 2025. Should you wish to present a paper of 20 minutes at the conference, please submit your proposal by 15 July 2025. Limited travel bursaries are available, particularly for postgraduate students and early career researchers.

【CALL FOR PAPERS】

The so-called “post-secular turn” in Victorian studies has helped produce a more accurate view of the Victorian period by acknowledging the religiosity of the time rather than privileging doubt and skepticism. However, so far the post-secular turn, understandably, has focused on religious movements and the role of the Bible in the literature of the time. This panel seeks to broaden that focus by examining ways in which a consideration of Victorian religiosity sheds new light on a range of scholarly debates – including but not limited to such topics as disability studies, eugenics, “scientific” racism, or animal rights, among many other possibilities. Interdisciplinary papers are welcome.

American Comparative Literature Association

2006 Annual Meeting

Feb. 26-Mar. 1, 2026

Montreal, CN

Call for Papers: 

ACLA 2026 CFP

Baldwin After BLM

If James Baldwin maintained a “ubiquity in the imagination of Black Lives Matter,” as William J. Maxwell and others have observed, then what are we to make of his words and image in a moment that Cedric Johnson and others have argued must be understood as “After Black Lives Matter”?

This summer in Chicago, gather with artists, educators, and industry professionals for four transformative days dedicated to consent-based practices in the performing arts. Whether you want to deepen your understanding, share your experiences, or learn from leading experts, this symposium offers a dynamic space for exploration and community engagement.

This CFP is an invitation to host a workshop, talk, or roundtable, presenting new practices that you have developed or your research related to consent-based practices at the TIE Symposium in Chicago, August 6-10.

Special issue Call for Papers

Supernatural liminalities in MTV’s Teen Wolf

(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

Dança guerreira e religiosa dos Tupinambá, Jean-Baptiste Debret (1834)

We invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature, the arts, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes, enforcing cultural hierarchies, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous, local, and non-Western communities.

This panel explores how cultural genealogies—artistic, intellectual, political, and linguistic—are constructed, resisted, and reimagined across French and Francophone spaces. Far from being fixed or linear, inheritance often manifests through discontinuities, silences, and contested claims. Artists and thinkers engage with prior figures, movements, and traditions in ways that may reaffirm legacies, subvert them, or create entirely new configurations of belonging and dissent. Whether through homage, revision, irony, or deliberate omission, these acts of (dis)inheritance speak to larger dynamics of memory, power, and transformation.

The Unitarian Universalist Studies Network – founded in 2021 via a merger of the UU History and Heritage Society and UU Collegium – is committed to encouraging valuable original research done to investigate our UU and liberal religious past and to integrate findings gained from serious exploration of ethics and theology. Our work is informed by our commitment to countering oppression in all of its intersecting forms in the belief that such study will critically challenge our sense of who we have been as a religious movement, and deepen our aspiration to be a just, inclusive, and beloved community as Unitarian Universalists today.

Abstracts are sought for an edited collection on the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Kate Chopin in the Classroom

The editors of this essay collection invite 250-word proposals for essays of 5,000 to 7,000 words that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching the fiction, poetry, nonfiction or life of nineteenth-century American author Kate Chopin in the contemporary classroom. What are effective strategies for high school and/or college-level students? How have you incorporated technology into your teaching of Chopin? What changes have you seen in the reception of your students over the years? For example, do they praise or condemn Edna Pontellier? What might this say about students today?

Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and should be no longer than 250 words.